Making sanitation count: Developing and testing a device for assessing latrine use in low-income settings

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3295-3303

  Clasen, Thomas ^a   Fabini, Douglas ^b   Boisson, Sophie ^a   Taneja, Jay ^c   Song, Joshua ^b   Aichinger, Elisabeth ^a   Bui, Anthony ^d   Dadashi, Sean ^b   Schmidt, Wolf Peter ^a   Burt, Zachary ^e   Nelson, Kara L ^f  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; FIELD TRIAL; HUMAN EXCRETA; HUMAN OBSERVERS; MOTION DETECTORS; PASSIVE INFRARED; POTENTIAL HEALTH; STRUCTURED OBSERVATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY;

SANITATION;

CONTROL SYSTEM; EXCRETION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RECYCLING; SANITATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY FLUIDS AND SECRETIONS; DEVICE APPROVAL; DEVICES; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PASSIVE LATRINE USE MONITOR; SANITATION;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDIA; INFRARED RAYS; POVERTY; TOILET FACILITIES;

INDIA; ORISSA;

EID: 84858641339     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es2036702     Document Type: Article

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