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Crowd-sourced spatio-topological sanitation network modelling in informal systems

Lookup NU author(s): Ruth Kennedy-Walker, David Alderson

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Abstract

Improvements in sanitation provision, and in particular options for collection and treatment of sewage, are critical requirements to reduce health and environmental risks to populations in rapidly-urbanising informal settlements. This paper presents a novel technique to evaluate the costs of different sewage treatment-transportation options based on the spatial and topological properties of different networks. This is made possible using crowd-sourced, open spatial data-sets which allow us to simulate different sanitation network scenarios within a geospatial software environment, and ascertain the long term operational costs of different network configurations. It is envisaged that such a tool could be used by engineers as part of the sanitation planning process to evaluate sanitation network implementation options, as such we include a case-study example based on the Kibera settlement in Kenya.


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Author(s): Kennedy-Walker R, Holderness T, Alderson D, Evans B

Publication type: Note

Publication status: Published

Journal: IWA Development Congress and Exhibition

Year: 2013

Pages: 1-1

Print publication date: 14/10/2013

URL: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/EventsExtra/Crowd-sourcedspatio-topologicalsanitationnetworkmodellingininformalsettlements?utm_source=WaterWiki+Connect&utm_campaign=e2391e6637-wikinews_june13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65bedfee7b-e2391e6637-


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