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- Title
Inefficient technology or misperceived demand: the failure of Vacutug-based pit-emptying services in Bangladesh.
- Authors
OPEL, AFTAB; BASHAR, M. KHAIRUL
- Abstract
Demand is growing globally for appropriate technology and viable business solutions to pit-emptying and transportation services. There is a growing body of experiments on techno-logical innovations in different contexts to find an effective solution. However, there is no one technology or business model that can be applied everywhere because of contextual difference and varied demand. A Vacutug-based emptying and transportation service has been introduced in an urban context in Bangladesh by WaterAid. However, this study suggests that despite enormous demand, this mechanical emptying and transportation service has not been successful because of technological inefficiency and other demand-related factors.
- Subjects
BANGLADESH; VACUUM technology; SANITATION; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; TRANSPORTATION; SLUDGE management
- Publication
Waterlines, 2013, Vol 32, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
0262-8104
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3362/1756-3488.2013.022