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.
IRC - 2008 Notes and News on School Sanitation
09 Apr 08
This issue of Notes & News focuses on some of the activities and initiatives undertaken in the framework of the International Year of Sanitation related to WASH in Schools. Two non-traditional approaches are highlighted. The School Sanitation Fund by the Dutch NGO Simavi and the Global Awareness Raising campaign by the German Toilet Organization. Marni [...]
BBC News - Who’d be a toilet attendant?
09 Apr 08
You visit a fancy bar. You go to the toilet. As you wash your hands, a man passes over some nice paper towels. He seems to expect a tip. Welcome to one of the UK’s grimmest workplaces.At 10pm on a Friday, among the drinkers gathering in pubs and bars around the country, Samuel arrives for [...]
India - 900 million litres of urine a day
08 Apr 08
India produces an estimated 900 million litres of urine every day, of which an ample volume is piddled in public spaces — on walls, inside parks, besides rail tracks, and, sometimes, even on the back seat of cabs. Men mostly do the mischief, a popular, intricate ritual with its own rules. First, there is the [...]
Angola: Reduction of Environment Impact On Health Needs Strong Sanitary Network
08 Apr 08
Angola Press Agency (Luanda) 8 April 2008, Posted to the web 8 April 2008SumbeThe reduction of the impact of environmental degradation on health requires the reinforcement of the sanitary network, implementation of preventive measures and active participation of citizens in preservation programmes. This was said Monday in Sumbe, central kwanza Sul province, by the deputy [...]
USAID And UNICEF Dissemenate Best Practices From Successful School Sanitation Program
08 Apr 08
Article Date: 08 Apr 2008 - 4:00 PDTThe U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) celebrated the success of their five-year partnership to enhance environment safety and hygiene conditions in thousands of schools across Jharkhand and Karnataka. The close-of-project dissemination meeting was held today at the UNDP Conference Hall [...]
Nigeria: Declare state of emergency on sanitation, body tells FG
08 Apr 08
Tuesday, Apr 8, 2008The federal government has been called upon to declare a state of emergency on environmental sanitation in the country. This is in view of the deteriorating sanitary standards of the country’s urban and rural areas and the glaring failure of curative health services. This is one of the recommendations contained in the [...]
190m people in Asia Pacific without basic sanitation, says Australia
08 Apr 08
Source: Australian GovernmentPublished Apr. 8, 2008The Australian Government has reaffirmed its commitment to improving sanitation services in the Asia-Pacific region. Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said improving access to clean water and sanitation services is crucial to raising the health and living standards of people in the Asia Pacific. ‘About 190 million [...]
Peru: industries must adopt developed country standards for wastewater
08 Apr 08
Industries in Peru will have to accommodate environmental standards for wastewater treatment set by developed countries, otherwise they cannot export their products, said José Salazar, president of Sunass, the national water authority. To comply with the free trade agreement with the USA, Peru also needs to raise industrial water use rates. A study on water [...]
VOA - Ghana Conference Examines Ways to Improve Water and Sanitation in Africa
07 Apr 08
Experts in the field of water and sanitation have gathered to share their knowledge at an international conference opening Monday in Accra, Ghana. The meeting is a collaborative effort by Ghana’s Ministry of Works and Housing and the Water Engineering and Development Center (WEDC) at Loughborough University in Britain. Minta Aboagye is the chairman of [...]
Mexico - CONAGUA APPROVES US$168 MILLION FOR SANITATION PROJECTS
07 Apr 08
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / 07 April 2008. Conagua, Mexico’s national water authority, recently approved a budget of 1.8bn pesos (US$168mn) for sanitation and infrastructure projects along the Balsas River. The river flows through eight states in the country’s central region. It is one of the country’s [...]
