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Title
World Bank - Improving Municipal
Solid Waste Management
in India:
A Sourcebook for Policy Makers
and Practitioners
Abstract
Effi cient delivery of public services and infrastructure are pressing issues for
municipalities in most developing countries; and in many countries, solid waste
has become a top priority. Solid waste management (SWM) is costly and complex
for local governments, but it is so essential to the health, environment, and quality
of life of the people—in particular, the poor—that municipalities cannot afford to
get it wrong. Bad waste collection practices and improper solid waste disposal contribute
to local episodes of disease, regional water resource pollution, and global
greenhouse gases.
This book addresses the problem by focusing on India. A country such as India,
with its high economic growth and rapid urbanization, requires immediate solutions
to the problems related to mismanagement of urban waste. City managers are
actively trying to understand the problem and are seeking effective ways of intervening.
They realize that such interventions are essential to improving the quality
of their cities and to reducing adverse health and environmental impacts. For cities
to be sustainable and to continue their economic development, they must be clean
and healthy. They need to improve their SWM systems by adopting good collection
coverage, appropriate transfer methods, and healthy disposal practices.
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