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Using human waste safely for livelihoods, food production and health

SECOND INFORMATION KIT: THE GUIDELINES FOR THE SAFE USE OF WASTEWATER, EXCRETA AND GREYWATER IN AGRICULTURE AND AQUACULTURE

This information kit was prepared by WHO, FAO, IDRC and IWMI in response to requests from different members of the Guidelines' varied readership for information clarifying their specific roles and responsibilities in the safe water reuse in agriculture and aquaculture.

• Second information kit
  pdf, 299kb

CONTENTS AND LINKS TO THE DOCUMENTS

#01 Guidance documents related to the Guidelines

• Guidance Note for national programme managers and engineers: Applying the guidelines along the sanitation ladder
  pdf, 811kb
  by Pay Drechsel and Bernard Keraita
• Discussion paper: options for updating the 2006 WHO guidelines
  pdf, 462kb
  by Duncan Mara, Andrew Hamilton and Andy Sleigh and Natalie Karavarsamis
• Guidance Note on health-based targets
  pdf, 923kb
  by Bruce Gordon and Robert Bos
• Guidance Note for national programme managers and engineers: Options for simple on-farm water treatment in developing countries
  pdf, 6.87Mb
  by O.O. Cofie, B. Kerata and P. Dreschsel
• The Wealth of Waste, the economics of wastewater use in agriculture. Executive Summary of FAO Water Report 35
  pdf, 7.37Mb
  by J. Winpenny, I Heinz and S. Koo-Oshima
• Lessons learned from the WHO/FAO/IDRC project in Ghana, Jordan and Senegal
  pdf, 121kb
  by M. Redwood and Robert Bos

#02 From Policy to Action

• A concept note on sanitation safety plans: using sanitation safety plans as a vehicle to implement the Guidelines
  pdf, 86kb
  by Th.-A. Stenstroem, Eva Barrenberg

#03 Announcements and calls

• A call for collaboration on the development of a Manual for Sanitation Safety Plans
  pdf, 29kb
• An announcement of the availability of the web-based French version of the third edition of the guidelines
  pdf, 220kb

#04 Order Forms

• Flyer and order form for Wastewater Irrigation and Health, assessing and mitigating risk in low-income countries
  pdf, 745kb
  (P. Drechsel, C.A. Scott, L. Raschid-Sally, M. Redwood and A. Bahri, Earthscan 2009)
• Flyer and order form for the third edition of the Guidelines for the Safe Use of Wastewater, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture
  pdf, 303kb
  (WHO, 2006)
• Flyer and order form for FAO Water Report 35
  pdf, 4.03Mb