To remedy this situation the building by-laws should insist that each building have two pits for sanitary waste disposal. One of the pits should be for the toilets and one for the greywater. The pits can have a small PVC pipe fit to the covering lid to enable emptying using the vacuum trucks called Honey-suckers.
Below is the List Of Sanitation bye-laws In Ghana
What are types of sanitation?
A range of sanitation technologies and approaches exists.
Some examples are community-led total sanitation, container-based sanitation, ecological sanitation, emergency sanitation, environmental sanitation, onsite sanitation, and sustainable sanitation.
What are the four components of environmental sanitation?
Environmental sanitation: the control of environmental factors that form links in disease transmission.
This category includes solid waste management, water, and wastewater treatment, industrial waste treatment and noise and pollution control.
What are the effects of poor sanitation?
Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio and exacerbates stunting.
Poor sanitation reduces human well-being, social and economic development due to impacts such as anxiety, risk of sexual assault, and lost educational opportunities.
What are the main causes of poor sanitation?
Open defecation.
Unsafe drinking water.
High-density living.
Lack of education.
Increased health issues.
Increase in diseases.
Decrease in schooling.
Downturn in economic opportunity.