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Arsenic affected patients from West Bengal. Photo: SOES Bone deformities due to arsenic poisoning of groundwater are common among the youth in Bengal, the Indian army has found. Less than 100 youths among the 2,000 who turned up for an army recruitment drive in February 2012, passed the physical... Read more...
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) will soon launch a new initiative to help off-track countries meet their WASH goals. Read more...
José Miguel is a circuit rider: a technician responsible for providing technical assistance to a number of water committees in his area around San Vicente in El Salvador. There are around 30 water systems on his circuit which he visits regularly. Read more...
Mercredi 28 mars s’est tenue à l’Institut français de Ouagadougou une édition du Maquis des Sciences sur la thématique de l’eau. Quatre experts de la société civile et de la recherche, Lamine Kouate (Président du Conseil National de l’Eau), Juste … Read more...
By Mustapha Sesay, Sierra Leone. Water is an essential in our daily activities and a basic right for all to access it at affordable rate. It is unfortunate that as the world continues to celebrate World Water Day, most developing countries including Sierra Leone suffer from acute water shortage to... Read more...
Monsieur NANSI, quel est votre bilan du forum de Marseille ? « Marseille 2012 nous confirme que le Forum Mondial de l’Eau reste l’événement international le plus important qui traite des question de l’eau et de l’assainissement. Je sors de ce … Read more...
Les États Unis vont soutenir financièrement plusieurs projets d’assainissement au Cameroun. 25 millions de FCFA (environ 50 000 USD) pour financer divers projets dans cinq régions du Cameroun. Dans le cadre de ce programme pour cette année 2012, les projets … Read more...
Management Information Systems (MIS), SenseMaker and the Quality Information System (QIS) keep track of progress across nearly half of Bangladesh. Read more...
Since 2006 IRC supports a large-scale holistic programme that enables the poor in 250 sub-districts of Bangladesh to seize control of their lives Read more...
While Egypt has made good progress in urban sanitation, access to wastewater treatment in rural areas lags far behind. Read more...
What does it cost to provide water services that last? What do we mean by a water service? How can we measure whether water is being provided effectively, and at the desired level? These are among the questions tackled during a panel discussion held in WASH Advocate’s 301 session for World Water... Read more...
During the London Sustainable WASH learning event, which took place on 31 January 2012, representatives of 44 WASH organisations made commitments to support the service delivery approach. They acknowledged that making changes within their respective organisations is important for collectively... Read more...
Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the country's latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have toilets while 49.8% defecate in the open. The remaining 3.2% use public toilets. Read more...
As part of a special issue focused on water and sanitation policies and practice over the past couple of decades, an article by Welle et al. reflects on the Ethiopian National WASH Inventory. Read more...
Some links to press coverage of World Water Day in Uganda. Read more...
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 8 February 2012 The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial Full-text Shams El Arifeen DrPH, et al. Background - Up to half of neonatal deaths in high mortality settings... Read more...
A model where public funds provide the back-end and private funds provide the front-end can fill the gap in sanitation financing in India, writes Anupam Tyagi from the International Management Institute in the Economic Times of February 9th, 2012. According to a recent report by Water and... Read more...
