Over 80 percent of diseases (including diarrhoea, cholera, intestinal worms, trachoma, typhoid) among adults and children are caused by lack of basic sanitation, according to a new government report entitled Nepal Country Plan for International Year of Sanitation 2008.

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WHERE’S THE LOO? is an Earth Report exploration of what the Ethiopian Government with support of Development Partners is doing to meet to the target of 100 percent sanitation coverage by 2012, and positive behavior change on hygiene practices. From the vast highlands of Amhara Region to rubbish tips in the middle of Addis Ababa, [...]

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THE Tororo district council is to impose a sh50,000 fine on homesteads near schools that lack pit-latrines. The district health and education committee chairperson, Jacinta Ayoo, said about 50% of communities living around schools lacked pit latrines.She said the communities instead use the school pit latrines, which fill up faster and constrain authorities in terms [...]

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Geneva, 7 March 2008 - The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is launching on 14 March 2008 in Geneva the Global Sanitation Fund, the first global financing mechanism to increase expenditure on sanitation and hygiene.For more info see the article published earlier in Source WeeklyRead more about the launch here [...]

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The total eradication of the bucket system and the provision of clean water and proper houses remain elusive to many South Africans.Statistics South Africa yesterday released results of a survey conducted last year. …Despite numerous promises since 1994 that the much-loathed bucket system would be totally eradicated, 12percent of the people in the Free State [...]

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A national organisation that supports water and sanitation projects in developing countries is celebrating a move to Loughborough University today (12 March).Partners for Water and Sanitation (PAWS) was established in 2002 in response to the United Nations Millennium Development Goal targets to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking [...]

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ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (APP): About 200 villages in earthquake-hit Muzaffarabad will be made open defecation-free by the end of current year under a pilot project launched by the UNICEF and its partners in the mid 2007.In the quake-ravaged areas of Azad Kashmir, 14 villages have already been granted open defecation-free status by the UNICEF [...]

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The department of water affairs, local government, waste management and pollution control, crop production, environmental health and the University of Botswana have agreed to work together to achieve global sanitation targets.They made the  pledge at a press conference at Cresta Lodge on Monday, marking the National Week on Sanitation celebrations, which will be held [...]

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WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (OneWorld) - Activists working to improve lives and livelihoods around the world gathered in the United States capital Wednesday to launch a new initiative to bring water and sanitation facilities to schools that currently lack them.The WASH-in-Schools initiative aims to bring clean drinking water, toilet facilities, and hygiene education to 1,000 schools [...]

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Most people in the Cayman Islands regard sanitation as a norm, something rarely meriting thought.But maybe we should occasionally pause to consider what Cayman would be like if we lacked human waste disposal facilities, laws and regulations. Many places across the globe offer neither proper sanitation nor access to clean drinking water.Read More [...]

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