Linking Technology Choice with Operation and Maintenance for Low-Cost Water Supply and Sanitation
Updated - Wednesday 20 September 2006
This guidance manual is designed to help in the selection of rural and low-income water supply and sanitation technologies. Part I provides an introduction to operation and maintenance and the factors influencing technology choice. Part II comprises 50 illustrated fact sheets on various low-cost water supply and sanitation technologies. Each fact sheet provides: a brief description of the technology and the O&M activities associated with it; an outline of the O&M requirements of each activity, including frequency, human resources, materials and spare parts and tools and equipment; a list of the main actors and the skills needed for O&M; information on organizational aspects, recurrent costs, problems, limitations and remarks; and recommended literature.
Target audience: planners and project staff
Jointly published by IRC, WHO and WSSCC. Also available in Portuguese (LT-P)
- - Download:
- LT-E.pdf (2.4 MB)
- - Series:
- vii, 166 pages. Illustrated.
- - Price:
- € 27.00
- - Order code:
- LT-E
