Economic Assessment of Sanitation Interventions in Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China
This study evaluates the costs and benefits of technical sanitation options and programs in Yunnan Province, China, as part of the Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) conducted by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program in East Asia...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/18478986/economic-assessment-sanitation-interventions-yunnan-province-people s-republic-china-six-country-study-conducted-cambodia-china-indonesia-lao-pdr-philippines-vietnam-under-economics-sanitation-initiative-esi http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17384 |
| Summary: | This study evaluates the costs and
benefits of technical sanitation options and programs in
Yunnan Province, China, as part of the Economics of
Sanitation Initiative (ESI) conducted by the World
Bank's Water and Sanitation Program in East Asia. As an
underdeveloped province, Yunnan has achieved huge progress
in sanitation improvement since the 1990s. Sanitation
options evaluated in the study include the facilities to
collect and convey human excreta, household wastewater
treatment, and related hygiene practices. The benefits of
sanitation evaluated include health, water quality, time to
access sanitation facilities, external environment, reuse of
human excreta, quality of life improvement, and other
intangible benefits such as privacy, cleanliness and
comfort. The costs of sanitation measured include investment
costs and recurrent costs (operations and maintenance). The
study compares the costs and benefits of alternative
improved sanitation options over the expected life of each
technology, to estimate efficiency of alternative sanitation
options. For the study sanitation options in eight different
sites throughout Yunnan Province were selected. Three rural
sites include: a) villages in Luquan county s mountainous
rural villages (R1); b) Dali Shangguan (R2) lakeside plain;
and c) villages in Qiubei county (R3). Three urban sites
represent: a) Kunming (U1); b) Dali (U2); and c) Qiubei
(U3). Two peri-urban sites include: a) Kunyang town of
Jinning County (PU1) and b) Dali Zhoucheng (PU2). The
economic returns on all improved sanitation options are
significant in all the sites evaluated, when compared with
no access to basic sanitation. |
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