page_title: Sustainable sanitation
section_title: Terminology
hierarchical_section_title: Sustainable sanitation / Terminology
caption_attribution_description: English: System 1: Single Pit System (Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies)
context_page_description: Sustainable sanitation is a sanitation system designed to meet certain criteria and to work well over the long-term. The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance includes five features in its definition of "sustainable sanitation." Systems need to be economically and socially acceptable, technically and institutionally appropriate and protect the environment and natural resources.
  The purpose of sustainable sanitation is the same as sanitation in general: to protect human health. However, "sustainable sanitation" attends to all processes of the system. This includes methods of collecting, transporting, treating and the disposal of waste.
caption: Example for the systems approach of sustainable sanitation: Single Pit System (Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies)
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