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Descriptor English: Basic Sanitation
Descriptor Spanish: Saneamiento Básico
Descriptor saneamiento básico
Entry term(s) década internacional del agua y el saneamiento.
prestación de los servicios públicos de saneamiento básico
servicio público de saneamiento básico
servicios de saneamiento básico
servicios públicos de saneamiento básico
Scope note: Conjunto de servicios, infraestructuras e instalaciones operativas de: a) abastecimiento de agua potable, constituido por las actividades, por la disponibilidad, el mantenimiento, la infraestructura y las instalaciones necesarias para el abastecimiento público de agua potable, desde la captación hasta las conexiones prediales y los suelos instrumentos de medición; b) el agotamiento sanitario, constituido por las actividades, la puesta a disposición y el mantenimiento de la infraestructura y de las instalaciones operativas de recolección, transporte, tratamiento y disposición final adecuados de las aguas residuales sanitarias, desde los enlaces predios hasta su destino final para la producción de agua de reutilización o su lanzamiento final en el medio ambiente; c) limpieza urbana y manejo de residuos sólidos, constituidos por las actividades, por la infraestructura y por las instalaciones operativas de recolección, transporte, transbordo, tratamiento y destino final ambientalmente adecuado de los residuos sólidos domiciliarios y de los residuos de limpieza urbanos. (Traducción libre del original: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2015-2018/2018/Mpv/mpv868.htm#art5; http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2007/Lei/L11445.htm)
Descriptor Portuguese: Saneamento Básico
Descriptor French: Assainissement Basique
Entry term(s): Basic Sanitation Public Service
Basic Sanitation Public Services
Basic Sanitation Services
International Water and Sanitation Decade
Provision of Basic Sanitation Public Services
Provision of Basic Sanitation Services
Public Basic Sanitation Service
Public Basic Sanitation Services
Public Services in Basic Sanitation
Water Sanitation and Hygiene
Tree number(s): SP4.895.188
VS4.001.003.001
Scope note: Set of services, infrastructures and operational facilities: a) supply of drinking water, consisting of the activities, availability, maintenance, infrastructure and facilities necessary for the public supply of drinking water, from catchment to land connections and their measuring instruments; b) sanitary sewage, consisting of the activities, availability and maintenance of infrastructure and operational facilities for collection, transportation, treatment and final disposal of sanitary sewage, from the building connections to its final destination for the production of reuse water or its final release into the environment; c) urban cleaning and solid waste management, consisting of activities, infrastructure and operational facilities for collection, transportation, transhipment, treatment and environmental disposal of household solid waste and urban cleaning waste. (Free translation from the original: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2015-2018/2018/Mpv/mpv868.htm#art5; http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2007/Lei/L11445.htm)
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ED education
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
PC prevention & control
PL policies
Related: Excreta Disposal DeCS
Sanitary Profiles DeCS
Social Planning MeSH
Toilet Facilities MeSH
DeCS ID: 32559
Unique ID: DDCS032559
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Basic Sanitation - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060471
Scope note Set of services, infrastructures and operational facilities: a) supply of drinking water, consisting of the activities, availability, maintenance, infrastructure and facilities necessary for the public supply of drinking water, from catchment to land connections and their measuring instruments; b) sanitary sewage, consisting of the activities, availability and maintenance of infrastructure and operational facilities for collection, transportation, treatment and final disposal of sanitary sewage, from the building connections to its final destination for the production of reuse water or its final release into the environment; c) urban cleaning and solid waste management, consisting of activities, infrastructure and operational facilities for collection, transportation, transhipment, treatment and environmental disposal of household solid waste and urban cleaning waste. (Free translation from the original: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2015-2018/2018/Mpv/mpv868.htm#art5; http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2007-2010/2007/Lei/L11445.htm)
Preferred term Basic Sanitation
Entry term(s) Basic Sanitation Public Service
Basic Sanitation Public Services
Basic Sanitation Services
International Water and Sanitation Decade
Provision of Basic Sanitation Public Services
Provision of Basic Sanitation Services
Public Basic Sanitation Service
Public Basic Sanitation Services
Public Services in Basic Sanitation
Water Sanitation and Hygiene



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