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Sunday, 28 April 2024, 7:53 AM
Site: OpenLearn Create
Course: Urban Sanitation and Solid Waste Management (UrbanSanWaste_1.0)
Glossary: Glossary
F

facilities (sanitation)

structures that are used to provide sanitation (1)

facultative ponds

waste stabilisation ponds that are aerobic at the top and anaerobic at the bottom (6)

faecal-oral route

transmission of pathogens from human faeces to a person via the mouth (2)

faecal sludge management

set of processes including storage, collection, transport, treatment and safe end-use or disposal of faecal sludge (6)

F diagram

diagram that shows the pathways for human exposure to pathogens through the faecal-oral route (2)

focus group

small group of people who discuss an issue relating to them in an organised session with a facilitator/moderator (3)