Impact of ecological sanitation on urban development and planning
Urban planning and development requires the provision of water and sanitation services, access to food, health care, and healthy environments among other services. The advantages of ecological sanitation on urban development and planning are many and of enormous value. This section reviews the potential advantages of ecological sanitation compared to conventional sanitation. The major issues are divided into five categories: financial, ecological, governance, urban agriculture, and health and nutrition. Such a strict categorisation of issues is rather artificial, because a benefit in one category has spin-off benefits in other categories, just as a disadvantage in one creates problems elsewhere in the system.