Sanitation in peri-urban areas
With an ever-increasing number of people living in urban areas globally, cities and their surroundings, especially in low- and middle-income countries, are facing increasing challenges to meet the demand for …
Course: Achieving Sustainable Development
Challenges to Irish rural sanitation
Laurence has explored some of the challenges to Irish rural sanitation in this video. Thinking about the environment around you: What type of soil surrounds where you live, work, or …
Case study 1: The sustainability of hand pumps in Tanzania
Many NGOs are working with local communities to improve their access to safe, clean water. Programmes that install water points, such as hand pumps, protected springs, and rainwater harvesting, can …
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
In this article, we will see how important it is that water sources, water technologies, and sanitation are all coordinated. We will also explore why hygiene education is a key …
Sanitation technologies
In the last steps, we have looked at water sources and water treatment, and why they are important for achieving sustainable development in SDG 6. But another crucial element to …
Water treatment
We saw in the last step that the source of our water can create challenges to sustainable development. The next element that needs to be explored is how and why …
Water sources
In the last step, we looked at diseases that can be caused by poor water and sanitation. One of the most important elements that we need to look at to …
Infrastructure: connecting people and connecting places
Cities that work need to be successful in managing a number of core tasks from organizing sewerage, water and sanitation, garbage collection, electricity, public safety, as well as ensuring urban …
Cities and the environment
In the last two steps, we looked at the challenges facing urbanization today. Addressing these challenges will be central for sustainable development. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities talks about …
Does urbanization cause development, or vice versa?
Across countries, urbanization rates are strongly associated with income levels. The richer a country is, the more urbanized it is. You can see this in the figures below using data …
Urbanization now and then: New challenges
In this video we explored how urbanization today differs from prior waves of urbanization: it occurs at enormous speeds, in countries with weaker governments and lower levels of incomes. We …
Water and sanitation related diseases
As we saw in the video, there are four different categories of diseases related to poor sanitation and water supply. Waterborne diseases (e.g. cholera and typhoid) Water-washed diseases (e.g. trachoma, …
Sanitation and health: partners to achieving sustainable development
In this video Laurence introduces the topic for the first half of this week – SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation. We learned that over 842,000 people in low- and …
Improving water and sanitation, and sustaining our cities
Welcome to Week 3 of our course on achieving sustainable development! In the last two weeks you have explored some of the challenges to sustaining health and peace around our …
Next week: How do we know we are achieving sustainable development?
Well done for getting to the end of Week 3 of this course on Achieving Sustainable Development. The last three weeks we have explored some of the major challenges we …
