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.
Kenya: World Bank’s Sh12 Million Hand Washing to Fight Cholera
29 Apr 08
The East African Standard (Nairobi)28 April 2008, By Jane AkinyiA national hand-washing programme funded by the World Bank and other donors has been unveiled. The Water and Sanitation Programme (WSP) is supporting the Ministry of Health in a campaign that will have hand washing as part of its activities, to check cholera.The first phase of [...]
Uganda - Sanitation message spreads through laughter
28 Apr 08
Harriet Achen stands in front of an expectant crowd, betraying no sign of nerves. The 14-year-old’s portrayal of a rural Ugandan mother of five is convincing. She busies herself setting children tasks to help prepare a family meal and her fellow actors scuttle around obeying Achen’s every command.The floor is swept, each dish is properly [...]
Namibia - Lagging in sanitation
28 Apr 08
Although Namibia is ahead in meeting its Millennium Development Goal on access to clean water, it is lagging far behind in providing adequate sanitation to its people.This was said by EU Ambassador Elisabeth Pape at the official opening of the Luederitz sewage treatment facility on Friday.Pape said Namibia was too slow in improving sanitation in [...]
Uganda: National sanitation awareness drive on
25 Apr 08
Wednesday, 23rd April, 2008THE water minister, Maria Mutagamba, has launched a national sanitation campaign. The drive is sponsored by the Government, the National Sanitation Working Group and WaterAid Uganda.“The overall aim is to ask stakeholders at all levels to prioritise and improve sanitation. We want to declare 2008 a year of sanitation,” Mutagamba said on [...]
Brazil: Basic Sanitation, the Movie
25 Apr 08
NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA: Basic Sanitation, the Movie (Saneamento basico, o filme), JORGE FURTADO, Brazil, 2008, 112 minutes, Color“In order to stem “the smell of poop” in the river that runs through the Italian immigrant village of Crystal Line in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul, Marina Marghera Figueiredo applies for government money to build a [...]
Nigeria: Waging War Against Open Defecation
25 Apr 08
Daily Trust (Abuja), Posted to the web 25 April 2008, Abdul HassanAs health experts explore how to make the Nigerian society healthy, one worrisome impediment is the common act of open defecation.The practice, hitherto restricted to the rural areas, is now a common sight in the urban centres. In Abuja, the nation’s capital for instance, [...]
Angola: Environment Ministry And Unicef Cooperate in Sanitation
25 Apr 08
Angola Press Agency (Luanda), posted to the web 24 April 2008A memorandum of understanding in the area of basic environmental sanitation was signed Wednesday, in Luanda’s Talatona Conventions Centre, in Luanda, where the fourth conference of environment ministers of CPLP is taking place, between the Angolan Ministry of Urbanisation and Environment (Minua) and the United [...]
Gaza’s sewage ‘tsunami’
22 Apr 08
By Jeremy Bowen, BBC Middle East editor(…) Until that day their home was just downhill from a deep pond of sewage, pumped into a depression in the dunes and held there by earth walls because the water authorities in the Gaza Strip had nowhere else to put it.‘Wall of human waste’ On 27 March 2007, the [...]
USA: Cities allowed to discharge wastewater more than industry
21 Apr 08
BY CHRISTINE KRALY. ckraly@nwitimes.com, 219.662.5335 | Sunday, April 20, 2008In addition to the industrial complexes dotting the lakefront, municipal sanitation sites also expel millions of pounds of chemicals and treated wastewater into the Lake Michigan basin every year.And some Calumet Region and Chicago-area municipalities are allowed to discharge far greater volumes of pollutants into the [...]
Pakistan: Multiple activities to reduce child deaths being launched today
21 Apr 08
Multiple activities to reduce child deaths being launched today4/21/2008, IslamabadA series of activities to reduce child deaths and disease by promoting better health, sanitation and hygiene practices will be launched in six districts across the country during the Child Health and Sanitation Week 2008 beginning today (Monday) and continuing till April 26. (….) Pakistan’s Child Health [...]
