What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets?

SJ Dancer, Y Li, A Hart, JW Tang, DL Jones - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Public toilets and bathrooms may act as a contact hub point where community transmission
of SARS-CoV-2 occurs between users. The mechanism of spread would arise through three …

Sanitation for low-income regions: a cross-disciplinary review

C Hyun, Z Burt, Y Crider, KL Nelson… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Sanitation research focuses primarily on containing human waste and preventing disease;
thus, it has traditionally been dominated by the fields of environmental engineering and …

Water, sanitation, and hygiene implications of large-scale recycling of treated municipal wastewater in semi-arid regions

M Manisha, K Verma, N Ramesh, TP Anirudha… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) is crucial for national development, as it
improves human health and fulfills a fundamental need. This study examines the impact of a …

Understanding Open Defecation in the Age of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Agency, Accountability, and Anger in Rural Bihar

A Jain, A Wagner, C Snell-Rood, I Ray - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, India's flagship sanitation intervention, set out to end open
defecation by October 2019. While the program improved toilet coverage nationally, large …

Explaining the outcomes of the'Clean India'campaign: institutional behaviour and sanitation transformation in India

V Curtis - BMJ global health, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Many less developed countries are struggling to provide universal access to
safe sanitation, but in the past 5 years India has almost reached its target of eliminating open …

Are multidimensional poor more vulnerable to climate change? Evidence from rural Bihar, India

M Sinha, R Sendhil, BS Chandel, R Malhotra… - Social Indicators …, 2022 - Springer
Does deprivation of assets imply an increased likelihood of vulnerability to climate change?
Our study attempts to answer this question by analyzing the multidimensional poverty in …

Sustaining latrine use: Peers, policies, and sanitation behaviors

EL Pakhtigian, KL Dickinson, J Orgill-Meyer… - Journal of Economic …, 2022 - Elsevier
One third of the world's population lacks access to improved sanitation facilities with
ramifications for health, human well-being, and economic development. Although household …

Demographic, social and economic factors affecting the adoption of green toilets among rural households in India

J Ali, W Khan - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
This study investigates the demographic, social and economic factors as key determinants of
green toilet adoption among rural households in India. The Rural Impact Survey data of the …

What makes residents participate in the rural toilet revolution?

Y Li, S Cheng, X Chen, M Gao, C Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Highlights Motivation of Chinese rural residents to participate in RTR identified Motivational
model of Chinese rural resident participating in RTR is constructed Model includes intrinsic …

Pro-environmental attitudes, local environmental conditions and recycling behavior

L Corrado, A Fazio, A Pelloni - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper uses Italian official survey data collected in 2012 from more than 20 thousand
households to shed light on the determinants of people's pro-environmental behavior, more …