Links to other TBN websites
WHO Technical Notes for Emergencies
A series of TBNs in English for emergency situations produced for WHO by WEDC, covering a range of topics including; cleaning & disinfecting wells, boreholes & storage tanks; rehabilitating water distribution systems; emergency treatment of drinking water; waste management & disposal of bodies; minimum water quantity; water tankering; measuring chlorine; emergency sanitation; & essential hygiene messages:
A number of emergency related publications are also available on this site.
WELL Resource Centre
The WELL resource centre for water, sanitation and environmental health was first established in 1996 and managed by WEDC, LSHTM and IRC. A series of documents in English including Factsheets, Briefing Notes, Studies, and Consultancy summaries are available on the site. These are categorised according to:
Interesting Factsheets include:
- Effectiveness of water quality intervention in preventing diarrhoea
- Emptying Pit Latrines
- Evaluation of hygiene promotion
- Health impact of hand washing with soap; Health impacts of improved household sanitation
- HIV/Aids and water supply; sanitation and hygiene
- Hygiene promotion
- Measuring the health impact of water and sanitation
- On-site sanitation in areas with a high groundwater table
- Social marketing; A consumer-based approach to promoting safe hygiene behaviours
- Some global statistics for water and sanitation related diseases
- Sustaining hygiene behaviours
- The process for sanitation marketing
- Waste disposal in developing countries
- Arsenic in drinking water
- Field Water Quality Testing in Emergencies
- Household water treatment
- Household water treatment; storage and handling
- Microbiological Contamination of Water Supplies from Pit Latrines
- Scaling Up Community Management of Rural Water Supply
- Water and livelihoods.
- http://www.lboro.ac.uk/well/
HWTS Network
Household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) interventions can lead to dramatic improvements in drinking water quality and reductions in diarrhoeal disease, especially for people who rely on water from polluted rivers, lakes, unsafe wells or piped water supplies. The HWTS network, established by WHO in collaboration with other partners, aims to accelerate health gains for those without reliable access to safe drinking water, and to support coordinated action, pages available in English, French and Spanish.
More about the network and the tools available.
Practical Action
A range of appropriate water and sanitation technologies that meet the demands for domestic water supplies and for wider productive use for people living in poorer communities. Low cost sanitation approaches are also important to improve health and wellbeing of people. See the Practical Action TBN’s in English on: Rainwater harvesting; Water treatments; Water Pumping & Drilling; and Sanitation;
Visit Practical Action website
SODIS Technical Notes
SODIS is a water treatment method which uses solar energy to improve the microbiological water quality, and is used at household level to treat small quantities of drinking water. See the range of technical notes in English, French and Spanish.
WELL Technical Briefs
A further set of TBN’s in English, prepared by Rod Shaw, and originally published individually in Waterlines, is also available in pdf format on the WELL website. The topics covered include: Buried and semi-submerged water tanks; Emergency sanitation for refugees; Emergency water supply; Emergency water supply in cold regions; Emptying latrine pits; Ferro-cement water tanks; Household water treatment; Latrine slabs and seats; Low-lift irrigation pumps; Maintaining handpumps; On-plot sanitation in urban areas; Protecting springs - alternatives to spring boxes; Re-use of wastewater; Sanitary surveying; Simple drilling methods; Small earth dams; Small-scale irrigation design; Surface water drainage; Upgrading traditional wells; Using human waste; VLOM pumps; Wastewater treatment options; Water, sanitation and hygiene understanding; & Water source selection.
Water Aid UK
A range of technical briefs in English can also be found on the Water Aid website, and cover a range of topics such as: sustainable technologies; sources of water supply; rainwater harvesting; spring protection; sub-surface dams; gravity fed schemes; hand dug wells; tubewells & boreholes; handpumps; water treatment; disinfection; sanitation and latrines; hygiene education.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Factsheets
A series of fact sheets on environmental sanitation, water, sanitation, hygiene behaviour and vector borne diseases can be found on the WHO websites in downloadable pdf format. The documents are available in English only. Topics covered include: sanitary inspections; dug wells; tubewells; infiltration galleries; rainwater; surface water abstraction; water treatment; pre-filtration; slow sand filtration; storage tanks; disinfection; chlorination; water quality monitoring; excreta disposal options; composting latrines; aquaprivies; septic tanks; sewerage and sewerage treatment; solid waste disposal; the role of hygiene education; and the evaluation of hygiene education programmes amongst others.
