Blogs
Selection of blogs on water and sanitation issues. A blog or weblog is an interactive web site for which an individual or a group generates text and/or audio-visual materials on a daily or otherwise regular basis.
WASH Helpdesk Blog
Question and Answer Blog on water supply, sanitation and hygiene issues. It is a selection of questions and answers handled by information specialists as well as content specialists at IRC. Since November 2006 these Q&As are made available on the WASH Helpdesk Blog.
WASH News Blogs
News blogs set up by IRC and partners on water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in developing countries,
RiPPLE Blog
RiPPLE is a five-year research programme consortium (2006-2010) funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). Working in three regions of Ethiopia, it aims to advance evidence-based learning on water supply and sanitation (WSS), focusing specifically on issues of planning, financing, delivery and sustainability, and the links between sector improvements and pro-poor economic growth.
Duncan Mara's Sanitation Blog
“Personal and fairly maverick views on how international sanitation targets can be achieved” by Duncan Mara, professor of civil engineering at the University of Leeds in England. Prof. Mara has been working on low-cost sanitation in developing countries since the mid-1970s, and also on low-cost wastewater treatment and reuse.
Blogging on Water
Since June 2007, "Waterblogger" John Oldfield has been commenting on news about water and sanitation advocacy, mainly from a US perspective. Oldfield is Director of Partnership Development at Water Advocates, "the first US-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to increasing American support for worldwide access to safe, affordable and sustainable supplies of drinking water and adequate sanitation".
Urban Health Updates
This news feed is from Environmental Health at USAID and features recent news stories and research on urban health issues in developing countries.
saniblog.org
The "world's first blog on sanitation" according to its authors Juergen Kikuyumoja Eichholz (student) and Sören Björn Rued (ecosan expert) who are both working within the ecosan sector project at German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) in Eschborn, Germany, who launched saniblog.org in November 2007 to coincide with the launch of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.
Water is life
A blog by Jan from New Jersey, USA. She says: “I will be posting various articles I have written and news regarding the current global water crisis we face in our world.”
Private Sector Development Blog - Water and Sanitation
Informal blog about the role of private enterprise in fighting poverty, maintained by the World Bank Group. The authors are all related to the World Bank International Finance Corporation (IFC): Tim Harford, economist; Pablo Halkyard, private sector development associate; and Shaela Rahman, business development analyst.
