Water Supply and Sanitation in Development: People and Problems

Series: Water Supply and Sanitation in Development Series

Duration: 0:28:00

Year Published: 1985

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Graphically introduces the problems of an inadequate supply of clean water and sanitary disposal of human waste, documenting the relationship between these factors and widespread enteric disease. Explains why elaborate sewage treatment plants are untenable solutions for the rural areas of developing nations. Briefly describes several solutions to these problems, all of which can be accomplished with relative ease.

Complete Record: , Graphically introduces the problems of an inadequate supply of clean water and sanitary disposal of human waste, documenting the relationship between these factors and widespread enteric disease. Explains why elaborate sewage treatment plants are untenable solutions for the rural areas of developing nations. Briefly describes several solutions to these problems, all of which can be accomplished with relative ease.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.