Increasing availability of low-cost sanitation options

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends the making available of low-cost water-supply and sanitation technology choices.

1. Increasing availability
2. Improving options
3. Improving hygienic behaviour patterns
4. Facilitating use of low-cost waste management technology
5. Encouraging self-building of houses
6. Assisting waste and recycling in the informal sector

1. Increasing information exchange on low cost sanitation
2. Developing low-cost approach to improving drinking water supply

1. Terracing land
2. Applying water tariffs reflecting cost of water

1. Unavailability
2. Lowness
3. Costliness
4. Availability