Environmental Sanitation
means a wide range of interventions designed to create and maintain an
environment conducive to human health. This includes sanitation (defined as the
infrastructure and services required for the safe management of human excreta)
but also includes solid waste management, drainage of surface water and
sullage, vector control, air pollution control, etc. (Greywater or sullage is
defined as wastewater generated from plates and wash-hand basins, showers and
baths, which, because it is nearly as clean as potable water, can be recycled
onsite for uses such as toilet flushing, landscape irrigation and constructed
wetlands. Greywater often also includes wastewater from clothes washing
machines and sometimes include discharge from dishwashers and kitchen sinks.)
THE ABC FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES
UNEP / UN HABITAT / FIDIC / GI-REC
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