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This news feed on sanitation is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s Environmental Health knowledge management activity and the Hygiene Improvement Project. Its purpose is to provide news, information and resources to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.
Philippines - Eastern Samar hosts launch of Intl Year of Sanitation Tacloban City (March 14) — The First Provincial Launch of the International Year of Sanitation will be conducted today at the province of Eastern Samar particularly at the picturesque municipality of Guiuan.Read More
Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Training (SHIT series) kicks offs in Nepal “Ecological Sanitation: Concept to Practice” is the first course offered by ENPHO (Environment and Public Health Organization) in the SHIT series. This three day course runs from 26-28 March 2008 in Kathmandu, Nepal (application deadline 22 March). Four other courses are planned: Constructed wetlands; Solid waste management; Biogas for sanitation; and Total sanitation campaigns. Costs [...]
Clean Living - TVEs Earth Report examines Community Led Total Sanitation in Bangladesh In the International Year of Sanitation, Earth Report travels to Bangladesh to discover changing attitudes to hygiene. No more ‘open defecation’: instead of top-down solutions, the new Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach has eradicated open defecation in more than 300 villages. Earth Report investigates. The programme features CLTS guru Kamal Kar. Read the transcript [...]
Zimbabwe: Engulfed by sewage BULAWAYO, 14 March 2008 (IRIN) - To get to Sinikiwe MaKhumalo’s doorstep in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, Bulawayo, visitors have to step on a thin plank perched precariously over a trench that prevents sewage from flowing into her house. The 57-year-old grandmother has endured this arrangement to access her home in the city’s Old Magwegwe [...]
Bangladesh - Clean break from cycle of disease Bangladesh is facing an environmental crisis.It has the highest population density of any nation on the planet; and a half of its people are without adequate sanitation.As a result, the rivers and fields are polluted with human waste that enters the food chain.According to figures from Water Aid, 125,000 children under the age of [...]
World sanitation goals slip; nature can help OSLO (Reuters) - “The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers,” French 19th century author Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables. “The sewer is the conscience of the city … A sewer is a cynic. It tells everything.”Judged by its sewers, the world is not doing well. Only 3 in 10 people [...]
Maggie Black - An unmentionable global crisis Exactly 150 years ago, an exceptionally hot summer in 1858 reduced the Thames flowing through London to a scandalous condition known as the ‘Great Stink.’The smell off the river was so excruciating that Parliament could barely sit. Fear of pestilence had a powerfully concentrating effect on MPs legislative capacities.The smell off the river was so [...]
USA - Congressman Payne Champions International Year of Sanitation Congressman Donald M. Payne, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, today introduced a concurrent resolution supporting the United Nations’ declaration of 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation.…Representative Payne affirmed, “Sanitation is the foundation of health, dignity and progress. Economic and social development are its offshoot. It [...]
UNICEF - 6 in 10 Africans remain without access to proper toilet GENEVA, 20 March 2008 – Sixty-two percent of Africans do not have access to an improved sanitation facility — a proper toilet — which separates human waste from human contact, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. A global report will be released later this year, however, preliminary data on [...]
New Virtual Village Explores Global Drinking Water Crisis KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20 /PRNewswire/ — You may not be able totravel to a developing country and see the global water crisis first hand,but now you can visit WaterPartners Village — a virtual exploration ofthe water crisis — launching across social networking sites, like SecondLife, on World Water Day, March 22.“The purpose of [...]
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