Sanitation Updates
This news feed on sanitation is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s WASHplus 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.
Dubai: BBC ‘mole’ unveils insanitary living conditions of migrant workers
19 Apr 09
Dubai’s Ministry of Labour is investigating claims made in a BBC report that construction workers working on the Jumeirah Golf Estates in the Emirate are being forced to live in inhumane conditions. The recent BBC investigation found a lack of clean water and raw sewage in one camp, which housed 7,500 labourers in 1,248 rooms. After the [...]
Pakistan: “There is no need for foreigners to tell us this [how to make latrines]” - insurgent leader
19 Apr 09
Insurgents in Pakistan’s volatile Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) who recently made a peace deal with the government now want all NGOs to leave the area.“They come and tell us how to make latrines in mosques and homes. I’m sure we can do it ourselves. There is no need for foreigners to [...]
Guatemala: Global Water and Peace Corps collaborate in Healthy Schools program
19 Apr 09
Having developed many water systems in Guatemala, Global Water saw an opportunity to assist the Peace Corps volunteers who were trying their best to educate schoolchildren about proper hygiene but without the tools to do so.In a rural school adjacent to a small village in Guatemala, a Peace Corps volunteer stood before a group of [...]
Advocating for investment in sanitation: is your jury still out?
18 Apr 09
Imagine standing in front of a group of 12 men and women, summoned to hear the case for and against investment in sanitation. They are non-experts. You are the specialist. You know the importance of sanitation for the dignity and health of millions of people who lack basic facilities. You believe you will do a good job [...]
Sanitation Forum - Weapon against Cholera, Johannesburg, South Africa, 28-29 May 2009
17 Apr 09
This conference will focus on providing a forum for the discussion of the present and future problems, recent experiences and advances in this significant field of water management and environmental sanitation. This conference will seek to review the status of sanitation in South Africa especially the rural areas, review best practice and key entry points [...]
Peru, Lima: using carbon bonds to finance wastewater treatment
17 Apr 09
The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and Peru’s state water utility Sedapal have signed an agreement to start a pilot project at the Carapongo wastewater treatment plant, in Lima’s Ate Vitarte district. [...] Sedapal has bought equipment to burn the methane gas that is produced at the facility. CAF will assist with studies related to the [...]
Peru: sanitation - two out of three installations not used!
17 Apr 09
Such is the observation made by “Alternative Pro-poor Sanitation Solutions in Peru” (APSS), despite the numerous sanitation investments of the last few years for families, especially the poorest ones. The program supported by the Foundation Ensemble and undertaken in collaboration with the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) begins with this fact to act simultaneously on [...]
‘Green’ toilets should not be a flash in the pan
15 Apr 09
AN INVENTOR said his air-flushing toilets could ‘change the world’ if people gave them a chance.Loos built by Garry Moore, 44, from Ilford, are currently being piloted by Greenwich council employees at a Thamesmead depot.The pioneering propelair loos have a sealable lid that allows pressurised air to trigger a flush instead of a cistern of [...]
Sanitation promotion: experiences from government-led initiative in southern Ethiopia
15 Apr 09
In Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) an innovative programme has promoted latrine construction and use, hand washing and safe water storage and handling. The intervention is an example of how visionary government leadership can create the political momentum for low-cost sanitation and hygiene (S&H) and reach out to rural communities.Papers from the [...]
West Africa Regional Sanitation and Hygiene Symposium, Accra, Ghana, 10-12 Nov 09
15 Apr 09
This regional sharing and learning symposium is the first major event marking the collaboration between RCN Ghana, WaterAid, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in West Africa.Objectives:To identify and share experiences of good practice in promotion of good hygiene behaviour and ensuring sustained access to sanitation in particular for the poor and vulnerable in [...]
