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Water and sanitation - technical briefs
These technical briefs focus on low cost approaches to accessing clean water and sanitation. This is vital to health and well being and low costs are particularly important to poorer communities in the developing world.
Technical briefs are documents produced by Practical Action which are freely available to people in the developing world. They provide detailed technical information on a variety of subjects ranging from how to make jams and pickles to how to build a flood-proof house or an aerial ropeway.
As excellent secondary sources of information students can use technical briefs for research and to analyse and evaluate raw data. They are therefore excellent support materials for the new science national curriculum.
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All energy technical briefs 7.26 MB
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Batteries 376.7 KB
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Biogas 1.43 MB
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Biomass 319.26 KB
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Briquetting 312.23 KB
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Chimney stoves and smoke hoods 1.15 MB
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Energy for rural communities 286.42 KB
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Energy from the wind 336.84 KB
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Fireless cooker 289.58 KB
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Grid connection 158.9 KB
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Kerosene and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) 376.84 KB
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Micro-hydro power 429.04 KB
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Rural lighting 259.71 KB
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Solar (photovoltaic) water pumping 536.84 KB
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Solar photovoltaic energy 503.81 KB
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Solar thermal energy 157.27 KB
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Solar water heating 629.94 KB
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Stoves for institutional kitchens 444.38 KB