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.
Uganda: workshop on HIV/AIDS and Sanitation
21 Apr 08
New Vision (Kampala), 20 April 2008, Posted to the web 21 April 2008.Aidah Nanyonjo, KampalaUganda: Clean Water Essential for People Living With AidsLACK of clean water increases the risk of diarrhoea among people living with HIV/AIDS, the executive director of the Uganda Water and Sanitation Network, John Byarugaba, has said.The immuno-compromised status of people living [...]
Mozambican singer shines light on sanitation
18 Apr 08
A Mozambican musician who campaigns for clean water and sanitation has been awarded a top environmental prize. Feliciano dos Santos won a Goldman Environmental Prize for using his music star status to raise awareness about health, water and HIV/Aids issues. Santos received his award of US $150,000, described as the Nobel Prize of grassroots environmentalism, [...]
Taking Community-Led Total Sanitation to Scale: Movement, Spread and Adaptation [publication]
18 Apr 08
Andrew Deak - 2008ISBN 1 85864 677 448 pagesPrice £12.95IDS Working Papers - 298When a practice becomes widespread enough, then it has ‘gone to scale’. But increasing the intensity and spread of a particular practice is not a linear or obvious endeavour. The paper proposes that going to scale is multi-dimensional and complex. It focuses [...]
Sharing experiences : sustainable sanitation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific [publication]
18 Apr 08
Coinciding with World Health Day on April 7, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance Bob McMullan, MP launched Sharing Experiences: Sustainable Sanitation in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, a joint publication of WaterAid Australia and the International WaterCentre.The publication presents nine case studies from: Indonesia, Vietnam, Vanuatu, Fiji, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, [...]
How Epidemics Helped Shape the Modern Metropolis
16 Apr 08
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Published: April 15, 2008On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had reached its peak. (…) The epidemic left 3,515 dead out of a population of 250,000. [...]
Ghana - Water And Engineering Conference Ends
16 Apr 08
The 33rd Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) International Conference ended in Accra last Friday with a call for strong advocacy and political will to address sanitation issues in Africa.The five-day conference, which attracted over 300 participants from Africa and Asia, called for hard work and frank discussions on sanitation to save over 2.6 billion [...]
British charity call on G-8 summit to agree to forge global sanitation plan
15 Apr 08
LONDON, April 14A British-based charity is calling on the Group of Eight summit in Japan later this year to agree to take a global action plan meant to improve water supply and sanitation. WaterAid believes the G-8 summit in Hokkaido in July is the ”last best shot” for raising the issue — which is often [...]
Kenya - Prison inmates pioneer sanitation project in East Africa
15 Apr 08
Washington, April 15 (ANI): Inmates at a prison on the East coast of Africa are pioneering a sanitation project that would work with nature to neutralize human wastes.According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), apart from wastewater management, the project is to assess using the wetland- filtered water for irrigation and fish farming, [...]
Costa Rica: Only 3.5% of wastewater treated before discharged into rivers
15 Apr 08
Only 3.5% of Costa Rica’s wastewater is treated before being discharged into the country’s rivers, water utility AyA chairman Ricardo Sancho said. Costa Rica has only five operating wastewater treatment plants, which can only serve one-third of the population. The San Isidro treatment plant, in Choluteca municipality, has collapsed while Limón province only has a [...]
Improving on haves and have-nots - the need for smarter WASH monitoring
14 Apr 08
In a commentary published in Nature on 20 March 2008, Jamie Bartram (WHO) calls for a smarter system of indicators to monitor progress in achieving the MDG goals for safe water and sanitation. The current way of measuring progress shares “a basic weakness in regarding every human as either ‘having’ or ‘not having’ these key [...]
