This factsheet provides information on the link between sanitation and agriculture as well as related implications on health, economy and environment. It shows examples of treating and using treated excreta and wastewater in a productive way and describes the potential for urban agriculture and resource recovery in rural areas.

Biogas plants have a long and successfully history in Nepal. They provide energy for cooking and light dark rooms in a country where energy is a scarce and valuable resource. Consequently, biogas plants have been one of the main sources of green and renewable energy.

This new book by Sustainable Sanitation Alliance focuses on sustainable sanitation systems in cities and shows how this can be achieved within the constraints and complexities of the urban environment.

This factsheet deals with the planning of sustainable sanitation for urban and peri-urban areas of the developing world
and its importance for accelerated sanitation coverage by 2015. The United Nation