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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.
Afghanistan: Waste management slipping out of control in Kabul Population growth and the construction boom in Kabul over the past few years have resulted in the daily production of over 3,000 tonnes of solid waste. Some of this has been accumulating, causing serious health and environmental damage, according to Kabul Municipality.The municipality reckons there is now a daily build-up of at least 300 tonnes [...]
India - National Urban Sanitation Policy The Government has identified 100% sanitation as a goal during the 11th Five Year Plan. The ultimate objective is that all urban dwellers will have access to and be able to use safe and hygienic sanitation facilities and arrangements so that no one defecates in the open. The vision of the policy is that all [...]
Sanitation and Water Conference 2008, 27-29 Oct 2008, Melbourne, Australia Meeting the Challenge in East Asia and the PacificAn international conference hosted by World Vision Australia and the Watsan Reference Group and supported by the Australian Government, AusAIDConference ObjectivesThe conference will seek to review the status of sanitation and water in East Asia and the Pacific region, review best practice and key entry points, and [...]
India can achieve total sanitation by 2016 KOLKATA: West Bengal is well on its way to be the first State in the country to achieve open defecation free status by 2010 followed by Andhra Pradesh that is likely to achieve the target by 2013. Chhattisgarh is at the bottom of the list with the target year being 2022. Almost 80 per cent [...]
Handwashing behavior in rural Bangladesh The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) conducted a baseline evaluation for a large intervention project [SHEWA-B: Sanitation, Hygiene Education and Water supply-Bangladesh] that has a primary objective of promoting handwashing with soap or ash at key times–before preparing food, before eating or feeding a child, after defecating and after cleaning an infant [...]
Afghanistan: El-Tor cholera leaves 17 dead An outbreak of El Tor cholera in northern, eastern and southeastern Afghanistan has killed at least 17 people - mostly women and children - in the past few weeks, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) said on 6 October [2008].Over 1,100 people with diarrhoea and vomiting caused by the outbreak have received treatment at medical [...]
South Africa - Transkei schools sanitation programme on course THE first phase of the provincial Education Department’s multimillion rand school sanitation programme in the rural Transkei is nearing completion and dozens of schools have benefit ed from it. Seventy schools are being supplied with water tanks and toilet structures as part of the R40 million first phase, expected to be completed soon. According to [...]
Canadians are not practicing what they preach when it comes to hygiene TORONTO, Oct. 8 /CNW/ - An international survey on hygiene practices has shown that for the third consecutive year, Canada tops the charts when it comes to knowing the importance of infection prevention. Nine out of 10 Canadians (90%)(1) believe “washing hands regularly” is the most effective way to help protect against catching the flu [...]
THE BIG NECESSITY: Adventures in the World of Human Waste By Rose George, 304pp / Metropolitan / USD 26What happens to the feces that you flush down the toilet? Rose George, a journalist who used to write for British newspapers The Guardian and The Independent, has traveled all over the world to uncover the mystery of the world’s sanitation systems and to map the terrain [...]
Angola launches third national de-worming campaign in schools Over the next month, primary school children in all of Angola’s 18 provinces will receive de-worming tablets as part of a national campaign that is now in its third year. The campaign aims to ensure that the country’s children have better health for better learning.Parasitic infections, or intestinal worms, can lead to malnutrition, anaemia and [...]
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