Sanitation & Hygiene websites
These are the Sanitation & Hygiene sites in the Ultimate Survival Library, a curated directory of survival and prepping websites. Human waste, hygiene, and disease control when water/sewer fail — emergency toilets, handwashing, laundry, vector control. Water purification is Water; illness treatment is Medical.
- CDC Healthy Water Sanitation
CDC overview of sanitation and hygiene as public-health protections against disease from unsafe waste and water.
- Humanure Handbook
Joseph Jenkins Humanure Handbook site — composting human waste safely for long-term off-grid sanitation.
- Neighbors Ready Sanitation
Emergency sanitation and hygiene guidance for disasters — twin-bucket toilets, handwashing, and disease prevention when sewers fail.
- Omick.net
Documents practical simple technologies for land-integrated living with sections on composting toilets, water reuse, graywater systems, gardening, food preservation, native desert foods, solar ovens and wood-fired cookers. Draws examples from long-term experience in South Texas, Arizona and Oregon. Focuses on self-reliant skills addressing basic needs of fo…
- SuSanA
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance library of guides and research on emergency and long-term sanitation systems.
- Twin-Bucket Emergency Toilet
How-to for a DIY twin-bucket emergency toilet system separating urine and feces for safer short-term sanitation.