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Figure 2.1
Costs of conventional sewerage, shallow (i.e. simplified and,
in fact, condominial) sewerage and on-site sanitation as a function of
population density in the City of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte,
northeast Brazil (from Sinnatamby, 1983, 1986)
which is the lower-cost solution: on-site systems or simplified sewerage. Lower cost in this context means both economic and financial, and must include operation and maintenance costs as well as investment costs.
2.2.3
The Case for Settled Sewerage.
Here also the case has to be made on economic or financial grounds: is settled sewerage cheaper than on-site systems or

 
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