Sanitation Updates
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. It was originally set up to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation and continues to provide news, information and resources in support of achieving the goal of sanitation for all.
David Kuria – Sanitation & Toilet Entrepreneur
19 Mar 10
David Kuria: Interview with a Sanitation and Toilet EntrepreneurIn the sub-Saharan region, 80 percent of recorded illnesses are water-born diseases, and more than two-thirds of these people don’t have access to basic sanitation. While access to safe drinking water is gaining importance in the political arena, it’s still hard to talk about restrooms and toilets, [...]
Environmental Health Webliography, 2008-2010
18 Mar 10
The Environmental Health at USAID knowledge management activitiy compiled an annotated bibliography of 100+ peer review studies published from 2008 – March 2010. The article discuss recent research and projects in the areas of water supply, sanitation, hygoiene, vector-borne diseases and indoor air pollution.The webliography link is: http://ehbibliography.wordpress.com/
Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water–2010 Update Report
15 Mar 10
Access to safe drinking water improving; sanitation needs greater effortsLink - Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water –2010 Update Report15 MARCH 2010 | GENEVA | NEW YORK — With 87% of the world’s population or approximately 5.9 billion people using safe drinking-water sources, the world is on track to meet or even exceed the drinking-water target of [...]
Countering menstrual hygiene taboos in Nepal
14 Mar 10
A renowned contemporary artist is taking her form of menstrual activism to the streets of Kathmandu.All eyes at the Alliance Française in Kathmandu were on Ashmina Ranjit when she entered the grounds in a dress made entirely of sanitary napkins. From a thin tube she squirted blood on the napkins, one at a time, folded [...]
India – Dry latrines exist in four states
11 Mar 10
New Delhi, March 8 : Even as the cabinet put March-end as deadline for the rehabilitation of manual scavengers in India, a minister said Monday that four states continue to have dry latrines.“Dry latrines exist in four states, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand,” Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik informed [...]
WSP – Designing a handwashing station in Vietnam
09 Mar 10
Insights from Designing a Handwashing Station for Rural Vietnamese Households: Learning Note. Water and Sanitation Program. February, 2010. (pdf, 5.3MB)The Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP) Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project (HWWS) is testing an array of interventions to promote handwashing with soap among mothers and children in rural Vietnam. These interventions include mass media and interpersonal communication [...]
Uganda – Sanitary pad project “changes refugees’ lives”
09 Mar 10
KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – A project using papyrus and waste paper to make sanitary pads has changed the life of Evelyne Banyamisa, who fled rebel violence in Bunia, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2003 when she was only 13. After leaving the DRC, Bamanyisa ended up in south-western Uganda where [...]
Chile – Tweet tracking locates water/sanitation equipment
04 Mar 10
Tweet Tracking Site Helps Chile Relief Agencies Save LivesMAULE, Chile, March 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A woman uses her Twitter account to plead for help in locating her missing daughter – and finds her. An aid group puts out an urgent call for water sanitation equipment. A church group with food to offer asks for [...]
