The Ministry of Infrastructure’s Permanent Secretary Marie Claire Mukasine announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage in Rwanda by 2012. The government hopes to realise full coverage through a total sanitation campaign and community-based approaches. Read more...
New plan calls for an investment of Euro 10.47 billion in the coming decade to develop water production and supply systems to deal with the dwindling precipitation and the rise in the salinity of the groundwater which considerably exceeds previous estimates, according to a master plan for water now... Read more...
In the years ahead of us at least US $100 billion will be spend worldwide for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Transparency International (TI) warns us that efforts to combat climate change risk to be undermined by corruption and mismanagement. This year, TI’s annual Global Corruption... Read more...
Le Burkina Faso marche pour l’eau Ce Mardi 22 mars 2011, les habitants de la ville de Ouagadougou et des environs ont répondu par milliers à l’appel de la Coalition WASH pour une marche de 6km en vue d’attirer l’attention des autorités Burkinabé sur les besoins pressants liés à l’eau potable, l’... Read more...
With a high court ruling supporting South Africa's constitutional right to sanitation, Cape Town’s " brutal – and farcical – toilet wars ” have come to an end. Protesters from the Makhaza neighbourhood of the black township Khalelitsha, that was at the centre of the dispute, greeted the court... Read more...
This book provides guidelines on the integration of wetland management and WASH approaches so that they can bring clear benefits to the health and... Read more...
Open defecation and unsafe latrines together account for a high toll taken by water-borne diseases in South Asia. In fact, between 2008 and 2011, that is, the interval between SACOSAN III held in New Delhi and SACOSAN IV that recently concluded in Colombo, 750,000 children under 5 succumbed to... Read more...
WSSCC helped to drive preparations for the meeting and was active at the SACOSAN event in Colombo and at the preceding gathering of civil society organisations. WSSCC teamed up with WaterAid, the Freshwater Action Network South Asia, and others to bring the voices of the people to the podium,... Read more...
The first half of 2011 has been a busy period for WSSCC. Implementation of the Global Sanitation Fund continues at a rapid pace. Since 2010, GSF programmes started in Cambodia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal and Senegal, to which in 2010 WSSCC committed $36 million to impact the lives of up to 24... Read more...