sanitation
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- Definitions
- Purposes
- Economic impacts
- Types and concepts (for excreta management)
- Basic sanitation
- Container-based sanitation
- Community-based sanitation
- Community-led total sanitation
- Dry sanitation
- Ecological sanitation
- Emergency sanitation
- Environmental sanitation
- Fecal sludge management
- Improved and unimproved sanitation
- Lack of sanitation
- Onsite sanitation or non-sewered sanitation system
- Safely managed sanitation
- Sustainable sanitation
- Other types, concepts and systems
- Wastewater management
- Stormwater drainage
- Solid waste disposal
- Food safety
- Hygiene promotion
- Health aspects
- Environmental aspects
- Indicator organisms
- Climate change
- Global mechanisms
- Sustainable Development Goal Number 6
- Millennium Development Goal Number 7 until 2015
- Initiatives to promote sanitation
- Capacity development
- Costs
- History
- By country
- Society and culture
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.6|The sanitation system: collection, transport, treatment, and disposal or Reuse of excreta|reuse
Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage. Preventing human contact with feces is part of sanitation, as is hand washing with soap. Sanitation systems aim to protect human health by providing a clean environment that will stop the transmission of disease, especially through the fecal–oral route. For example, diarrhea, a main cause of malnutrition and stunted growth in children, can be reduced through adequate sanitation. There are many other diseases which are easily transmitted in communities that have low levels of sanitation, such as ascariasis (a type of intestinal worm infection or helminthiasis), cholera, hepatitis, polio, schistosomiasis, and trachoma, to name just a few.