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.
USA - Austin, TX residents hold potty protest
07 Apr 08
Karen Flanagan and her neighbors take pride in their toilets, but not the porcelain thrones in the bathrooms of their homes. Flanagan lives in northwest Austin in a neighborhood off Duval and 183 and if you take a ride through the neighborhood you’ll notice decorated toilets in more than a dozen yards.Laura Arbilla’s yard is [...]
Philippines - Contaminated wells, lack of toilets linked to typhoid cases
07 Apr 08
ASTURIAS Mayor Allan Adlawan said his office would take over water distribution in barangay Sta. Lucia after tests showed bacteria contamination of wells and faucets in the waterworks reservoir.One person died and 15 others fell ill of typhoid fever in the barangay.Tests on seven water sources showed that five of these were contaminated with salmonella [...]
El Salvador - Sanitation is a national priority in 2008
07 Apr 08
El Salvador’s government is making sanitation a national priority and increasing coverage throughout the country, national aqueduct and sewerage authority Anda sanitation department director Rubén Alemán told BNamericas.Although sanitation has not been a priority in this country for many years, we are beginning to incorporate it in a nationwide policy,” he said.“In 2008 we are [...]
Health: SANITATION, IT’S THE BIG ISSUE
04 Apr 08
Tackling the poo-taboo in the PacificWhat does the word “sanitation” mean to you? Going to the toilet, washing your hands, flushing the germs away out of sight and often out of mind? Or perhaps more practically, dealing with solid and liquid human waste on small islands, and even at the extreme end—the cause of diseases [...]
Africa: Address Sanitation to Break Cycle of Poverty
04 Apr 08
A speech by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation.Let me go straight to the point. An estimated 40 per cent of the world’s population lives without one of the basic amenities of modern life: a toilet.This means that 2.6 billion people are forced to relieve themselves in open spaces - in fields, [...]
Nigeria: Meet Target On Latrines, Unicef Urges Kebbi Govt
04 Apr 08
United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has challenged the Kebbi State government to meet its target of constructing household latrines and compartments in schools across the state.The government has set a target to construct 31,480 household latrines, 270 compartments in 45 schools, 189 compartments in 63 health centres and 394 compartments in public places.Read More [...]
CLTS Toolkit (in Nepali)
04 Apr 08
On 5 March 2008 the Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) launched the CLTS Toolkit booklet during the Symposium on ‘Sanitation Approaches and Technologies in Nepal’.The booklet focuses on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) practices and awareness raising to be used by facilitators in the communities.Inspired by the success of the approach in Bangladesh, CLTS was [...]
Vietnam - Washing dirty hands
04 Apr 08
The practice of hand-washing with soap in Vietnam’s rural areas is not common, a conference heard last week.According to the National Baseline Survey on the Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Situation in Vietnam conducted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other partners, 12 percent of rural people wash their hands with soap before meals and [...]
Call for abstracts: sanitation for the urban poor
04 Apr 08
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organises a symposium ‘Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Governance and Partnerships’, from 19 – 21 November 2008, in Delft, the Netherlands. Abstracts for the symposium papers on the following five topics – urban governance and sanitation, innovative finance for sanitation, partnerships for sanitation, dynamics of urban settlements, and technological [...]
El Salvador: Sanitation is a national priority in 2008 « WASH news Latin America and Caribbean
04 Apr 08
El Salvador: Sanitation is a national priority in 2008 « WASH news Latin America and Caribbean
