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.
WaterAID – Menstrual hygiene matters
31 Oct 12
Menstrual hygiene matters is an essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries. Nine modules and toolkits cover key aspects of menstrual hygiene in different settings, including communities, schools and emergencies. This comprehensive …Continue reading →
Now also in Nepali: Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
31 Oct 12
Clean toilets save lives. But with billions of people lacking access to basic sanitation around the world, which toilet best meets each person’s and family’s need? Since 2008, one of the most popular guidebooks used to help answer that question …Continue reading →
India’s “sanitation crusader” Minister Jairam Ramesh stripped of post
30 Oct 12
In a cabinet reshuffle Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has been stripped of his additional post as Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation [1]. His successor is Bharatsin Madhavsinh Solanki, a former railway minister and a Member of …Continue reading →
Sustaining sanitation services costs 5-20 times more than building a latrine
27 Oct 12
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in certain countries is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first …Continue reading →
Fecal Sludge Management: A smelly but fruitful business!
27 Oct 12
Today, 2.1 billion people in urban areas use non-sewered (or on-site) sanitation facilities. While much of the work in rural areas is focused on creating and sustaining open defecation free communities and generating demand for communities to construct toilets, the …Continue reading →
Sanitation – Let’s talk about poo
25 Oct 12
Sanitation – Let’s talk about poo | Source: IRIN News | Oct. 22, 2012 LONDON, 22 October 2012 (IRIN) – Enter the dignified portals of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine this week, and the first thing you …Continue reading →
WASHplus Weekly – Focus on Waste Pickers
24 Oct 12
Issue 75 October 19, 2012 | Focus on Waste Pickers This week’s issue contains reports, videos and blog posts that discuss the health, environmental and other issues that affect waste pickers. According to the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, the term …Continue reading →
Getting it right : improving maternal health through water, sanitation & hygiene
19 Oct 12
“Some very basic elements of human development related to water, sanitation and hygiene that were accepted in the 19th and early 20th centuries are still unavailable to a large proportion of pregnant women in the 21st century”, write the authors …Continue reading →
SanMark Community of Practice website
18 Oct 12
The Sanitation Marketing (SanMark) Community of Practice is a WASH Reference Group initiative supported by the AusAID Innovations Fund and managed by WaterAid Australia. The WASH Reference Group is an Australian-based Community of Practice comprising 25 organisations working on water, …Continue reading →
Wherever the Need puts sanitation first (video)
17 Oct 12
Wherever the Need has produced a simple, but effective sanitation promotion video narrated by Baroness Glenys Kinnock. Wherever the Need is a small UK-based charity with projects in India, Kenya and Sierra Leone. Their latest activity is the introduction of income-generating …Continue reading →
