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<font size="3" color=#454545>'''Social sustainability ''' brings great awareness and help to the disenfranchised minorities (poor women, children, certain ethnic groups, etc.) of society that do not receive adequate funding or implementation for water and sanitation systems. </font> A socially sustainable solution is one that is equitable, inclusive and democratic and considers the quality of life for current and future generations. Social sustainability also considers cultural beliefs or traditions that can be respected or dealt with positively to ensure social acceptance of a water and sanitation system.

'''Social sustainability will contribute to WASH interventions that are sustainable by ensuring that:'''

The cultural context of the users may act as an enabling factor or as a counteracting force for good water management. By assessing cultural backgrounds of the users, one can raise ownership and increase the potential of success, or, on the other hand, mitigate risks of failure. Failure could mean that systems are not used, or worse, are sabotaged. To consider beliefs and traditional practices becomes even more evident when promoting the treatment of excreta for further use, as claimed by sustainable sanitation and IWRM concepts. Different groups of people have varying, culturally determined relations to human excreta, which affect the acceptance of their treatment.

 

===Links===

* [http://www.pseau.org/outils/biblio/index.php?d=2756&l=fr&vue_pgm_o_tout=1&motclef%5B%5D=129&tri1=titre Affiches de sensibilisation Hygiène et Assainissement de Tessaoua]

=== Acknowledgements ===

*[http://www.washalliance.nl/fiets-strategy/?s/ Social =social+sustainability&x=0&y=0 FIETS sustainability]. Dutch WASH Alliance.

*Risch Tratschin, [http://www.sswm.info/category/background/background/background/socio-cultural-issues/water-sanitation-and-culture Water, Sanitation and Culture]. SSWM.

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