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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.
10 ways to save water and money …With a few small, simple changes, you can help reduce your water use, leaving more water in the rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources. These changes will also result in a lower water bill so should benefit your home finances as well:1. Consider cutting a little water usage from your morning routine. Does [...]
World Water Day: 1.5 million childrens lives could be saved if provided with proper water and sanitation World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. This annual event offers an opportunity to highlight the necessity to do more to bring access to clean water and appropriate sanitation to more than a billion people who still lack access to basic water supply. We asked Uli Jaspers, Head of the Water and [...]
Ireland - Pupils tap into water project for developing countries Pupils from a Belfast primary school have been taking part in an innovative project organised by the British Red Cross to mark World Water Day today.Children from Strandtown Primary have been keeping water diaries detailing each time they have used or come across water during a typical day.The pupils [...]
Voice of America - Development Agencies Call for Improved Sanitation Sanitation is the theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 20). UN development agencies are calling for greater public awareness and donor support for improving sanitation in the developing world - where, for example, more than two-billion people lack access to toilets. From Washington, VOA’s William Eagle reports on the some of [...]
WHO-UNICEF Advocacy for World Water Day 2008 WHO, together with UNICEF and WSSCC under the aegis of UN-Water, developed an Advocacy Guide for World Water Day 2008. This advocacy guide outlines the steps for groups or interested individuals at the country level to participate in the campaign to improve sanitation conditions.Links to Advocacy Guide, Programme and Speeches [...]
Canada - Fight Global Poverty by Investing in Sanitation and Water OTTAWA, March 20 /CNW Telbec/ - On the eve of World Water Day (March 22), a coalition of Canadian organizations concerned about the global sanitationcrisis is calling on the Canadian government to make investment in sanitationand water a foreign aid priority. In an open letter sent to Minister ofInternational Cooperation Beverley Oda, Sanitation & Water [...]
Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis United Nations, 21 March, (IPS): When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis.“A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the future,” he told the annual gathering [...]
33rd WEDC International Conference, 7-11 April, Accra, Ghana - update Below is an update on the conference programme. Several side events and workshops are focus on sanitation. Delegates will receive the Conference Proceedings and a CD of Sanitation Publications by WEDC, WSSCC, IWA and UNICEF.Side events:fresh thinking on urban sanitation planning (IWA/WEDC)national capacity development in support of Community Led Total sanitation (UNICEF/WEDC)sustainable approaches for [...]
End Water Poverty writes an open letter to UK Prime Minister To mark World Water Day, members of the End Water Poverty coalition published an open letter in The Times newspaper to the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, calling on his government to commit to making 2008 the year to change the lives of billions of people in the developing world.Read the open letter here [...]
Nepal: Waste of Zoo in packets The garbage and animal waste produced in the Central Zoo of Kathmandu is being composted and sold as fertiliser. The Nepal Pollution Control and Environment Management Centre (NEPCEMAC) sells packets of 1, 5 and 25 kg at Rs. 20 [21 Euro cents = 32 US dollar cents] per kg. The zoo produces 9 tons of [...]
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