'The Garbage Book presents the solid waste crisis in Metro Manila. It is aimed at raising awareness of issues in the sector, and outlines potential solutions to address the problem.
This book won the Bronze Anvil Award, the overall public relations tools award given by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines during its 40th Anvil Awards in 2005.'
Source: ADB

'Toilets, washing facilities, garbage removal, wastewater disposal, stormwater drainage: sanitation services such as these are a prerequisite for clean, healthy household and community living environments, particularly in dense settlements. Such sanitation services are also vital to safeguard environmental quality more broadly, especially the quality of water resources.'

WFP is promoting investments in water supply, sanitation and wastewater management, and environmental improvement in Asian cities.
Investing in Urban Water - If cities are the engines of a country’s economic growth, then water is the oil that keeps those engines running. Common among many Asian cities, though, is the fact that water shortages and pollution are stunting growth. Growing cities in Asia need more water supply and improved sanitation to sustain the urban economy, livelihoods, and more...

In many cities of developing countries untreated wastewater and polluted water are used for agriculture in urban and peri-urban areas. Though such practices are a threat to the health of users and consumers, they do provide important livelihoods benefits and perishable food to cities. This paper through a cross country analysis of 53 cities in the developing world, contributes to an understanding of the factors that drive wastewater use. The 53 cities represent a range of settings in arid and hu more...

Wastewater irrigation is a common practice in developing countries of Asia and Africa and also in the water scarce regions of the developed world like Australia. In India, wastewater is used either raw or partially treated due to high treatment costs, whereas in Australia, treated wastewater is recycled in agriculture and other sectors in water scarce areas and regions with severe restrictions on disposal of treated wastewater effluents. In spite of ill effects of untreated wastewater on human h more...

'Domestic wastewater management, including sewage treatment, requires support from government, the public and the private sector. Sewage treatment has been seen as an internal household issue. If each house has a latrine, sewage treatment must be adequate. If the latrine is connected to a septic tank, so much the better. Yet data tell a disturbing story of large numbers of people suffering from diarrhea, and polluted groundwater. Research shows that the root cause of these problems is sewage. De more...

'The objectives of the project are to remove the immediate and gathering public health and environmental safety threats to the communities surrounding the effluent lake; and to provide a longer-term solution to the treatment of wastewater for north Gaza.'

'The objectives of the project are to remove the immediate and gathering public health and environmental safety threats to the communities surrounding the effluent lake; and to provide a longer-term solution to the treatment of wastewater for north Gaza.'

'The objectives of the project are to remove the immediate and gathering public health and environmental safety threats to the communities surrounding the effluent lake; and to provide a longer-term solution to the treatment of wastewater for north Gaza.'

'The ‘Working for Wetlands’ Programme undertakes wetlands restoration across South Africa. Its guiding principle is to restore degraded wetlands to enhance water supplies and conserve biodiversity for the benefit of society. Also, by employing the most disadvantaged to undertake this task (from six to twenty-four months), the pay, skills and experience obtained provide participants with the opportunity to escape poverty. Hence, the Programme selects its employees from among the long term un more...