The 64th World Health Assembly (WHA) has adopted a resolution on drinking-water, sanitation and health, and two other related resolutions on cholera and Guinea worm (dracunculiasis). [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Yael Velleman at the WHA in Geneva with a copy of the... Read more...
Former heads of government have agreed to establish a new panel to help fill a "serious void in leadership related to global water issues". Saying that "international water leadership is virtually nonexistent," the retired leaders apparently have little faith in existing international organisations... Read more...
This article describes the FOAMS model which includes five core elements of hygiene promotion programmes that all need to be addressed in order to achieve behaviour change. It also provides an introduction to a compilation of good hygiene promotion practices: three key note papers and thirty-three... Read more...
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Two separate pollution incidents have hit the drinking water supply of the Chinese city of Hangzhou (pop. 9 million), Zhejiang Province, in the beginning of June 2011. In the first incident, the drinking water supply of more than half a million people was cut off when phenol (carbolic acid) spilled... Read more...