SNV staff from Vietnam published a short story from the "Rural Sanitation Supply Chains and Finance" workshop from January 16 to 21, 2011, that SNV Vietnam organized jointly with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and SNV Asia in the north western Dien Bien province. Read more...
The 4 th South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN 4) will be hosted from 4-8 April 2011 in Sri Lanka. South Asia has progressed relatively well with sanitation and hygiene policies, institutions and investments. However it remains the region of the world with the largest number of people... Read more...
WSSCC will host a Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene from 9 to 14 October 2011 at the Mumbai Renaissance Convention Centre, bringing some 500 WSSCC members and sector professionals together in India for a week of sharing and learning around vital sanitation and hygiene topics. Read more...
I wipe the dust from my eyes for what feels like the hundredth time, resist the urge to scratch the nagging bites around my ankles, and lean in closer to hear what Gladys Quispe has to say, as the squeaking pigs and clucking chickens compete with the feisty Bolivian woman. Read more...
I am Bilabi Moses, a second year student of the Ugandan Christian University. I come from Buboolo parish, Bukissa Village, Masaba sub-county in Sironko district of Eastern Uganda. Masaba sub-county is characterised as being hilly since it is in the Mt Elgon region and blessed with many rivers. Read more...
The principles of community-led total sanitation are being extended to schools and urban areas in eight African countries.IRC will contribute to a school-led total sanitation (SLTS) component in a broader five-year programme led by Plan Netherlands. Read more...
Sandram Maweru, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development disclosed during a briefing on Tuesday 14 March 2011 in Lilongwe that the Government will launch a sanitation and hygiene campaign on Saturday 19 March 2011 as one way of improving hygiene in low-income areas of... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation said this would require behavioural change among Ghanaians towards... Read more...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide US$ 29.65 million to support urgent rehabilitation works - restoration and stabilization of water supply and sanitation services in the Municipalities of Harare, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Chegutu, Masvingo and Kwekwe. The Urgent Water Supply and... Read more...
Like any other Kenyan slum, Waruku settlement, part of Nairobi's sprawling Kangemi slums is bursting under population pressure. The mud and corrugated iron walled shanties are packed together - neighbours can literally talk to each other from the comfort of their beds. Plots are separated by... Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation, who made the observation said this would require behavioural change... Read more...
The Delhi Jal Board (city water board) has approved levying sewerage development charges on those premises which do not have a DJB water connection, or have a cut-off connection, but discharge sewage into its sewer system. The monthly levy will be in the range of 150 to 2,500 Indian rupees [US$ 3... Read more...
Jan-Willem Rosenboom joined The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Senior Programme Officer, Demand-led Sanitation in December 2010. Read more...
Due to his impending retirement, Aat van der Wel has transferred his duties as Managing Director of WASTE to Jacqueline Barendse as of 1 February 2011. Read more...
Paul Post, who worked as a Senior Lecturer in Sanitary Engineering at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands, for more than 30 years, passed away on 1 January 2011 Read more...
Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...