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...
The International Conference on Water and Wastewater with focus on privatization and benchmarking will be held in Tehran's Milad Tower on April 27 to 28 in cooperation with National Water and Wastewater Engineering Co. (NWWE). 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...
The government of Nepal is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5,500 community schools, or almost one in six schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. 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...
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...
This is a follow-up to the entry about the Berlin Water Utility referendum posted on 2nd February 2011. Berlin’s referendum on February 13th has successfully passed a law demanding the disclosure of all contracts documenting the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works. Despite the low... Read more...
Dimanche à la plage de Fidjrossè à Cotonou. Dossi, la belle Dossi regarde droit dans les yeux de son compagnon, qui, de la main droite lui serre l’épaule droite. Elle sort un sachet de jus de fruit, l’ouvre avec ses dents et le pose sur les lèvres de son ami qui en suce. Elle vide ensuite le reste... Read more...
La couleur verdâtre de la terre qui avoisine le petit ruisseau qui coule rappelle à peine la longue crue qui a délogé Laboula et sa famille. Il y a quelques mois, au quartier Fifadji, au cœur même de Cotonou la capitale économique du Bénin, on ne se déplaçait qu’en pirogue d’un endroit à un autre... Read more...
Out of five presentations made on the day dedicated to WASH governance, three were on the West Nile Project: Summary of the process and achievements of the initiative, including presentation of the accountability toolkit Case Study 1: "People's voices, the leader's response", Nebbi... Read more...
A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, according to the co-ordinators, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). This represents a 73 percent increase in programme participation compared to 2009... Read more...