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.
Vis-Min regional sanitation summit kicks off tomorrow
01 Apr 08
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 The Department of Interior and Local Government will hold a regional summit on sustainable sanitation tomorrow and Thursday at the Negros Oriental Convention Center, Dumaguete City. The event, in partnership with the provincial government and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, aims to take action on the crises in sanitation, and its [...]
Kenya: Sanitation Must Be Public Health Issue
01 Apr 08
The East African Standard (Nairobi) 31 March 2008Posted to the web 31 March 2008NairobiOutbreaks of cholera in Nyanza Province have put the spotlight on a problem that doesn’t seem to get much Government attention - rural sanitation.There have been more than 450 cases and 39 deaths reported since January, the beginning of the International Year [...]
Conference highlights African sanitation plight
30 Mar 08
The lack of decent sanitation is a significant challenge that faces the whole African continent.Speaking at the AfricaSan conference in Febuary this year, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Dwaf) Minister LindiweHendricks said, “It has become clear that not having access to basic services such as sanitation holds back development, and has health, economic, educational and social [...]
Experts Look to Solve World’s Growing Water Shortage
30 Mar 08
Experts are franticly searching for a solution to the world’s growing water footprint, as urban populations increase and demand for biofuels cause water problems for farmland.As many as 2.5 billion people (half the population of Earth) have no access to sanitation - most of them living in urban slums. The world’s cities are booming by [...]
Burkina Faso: Flush With New Funds for Water and Sanitation
30 Mar 08
OUAGADOUGOU, 28 March 2008 (IRIN) - Donors announced in March that they will invest US $1.2 billion into Burkina Faso’s water sector, to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of halving the number of people in the world who lack access to safe drinking water by 2015. (…)Ambitious infrastructures The new funds, which mostly come from the African [...]
Lancet editorial - Keeping sanitation in the international spotlight
28 Mar 08
From the March 29, 2008 issue of The LancetEditorial - Keeping sanitation in the international spotlight2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. At this year’s World Water Day (March 22) sanitation was at last given the spotlight to help catch the attention of the international community. Although such attention is most welcome, [...]
Bangladesh - Ecological sanitation urged for hygiene, natural manure
28 Mar 08
Ecological management of human excreta and urine would not only help keep the environment clean and the people safe from many diseases but also meet the entire need of fertiliser for agriculture, a workshop on water supply and ecological sanitation was told in Dhaka yesterday.The workshop, organised by the Bangladesh Water Partnership (BWP) in observance [...]
India - Over 87,000 toilets built in Nellai
28 Mar 08
TIRUNELVELI: Of one lakh toilets planned under the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in the district, 86,644 have been constructed at houses and another 551 at women sanitary complexes in rural areas with the objective of eradicating open defecation, said the District Collector G Prakash.Inaugurating a three-day training programme on ‘Planning International Year of Sanitation’, organized [...]
Uganda - Journalists in Sanitation Crusade
27 Mar 08
JOURNALISTS in the district recently carried out a massive cleaning of Kayunga town. The campaign, dubbed Keep Kayunga Town Clean, aimed at promoting hygiene among residents.Over 14 journalist working with different media houses, under their umbrella organisation, Kayunga Journalists’ Association (KAJA), participated in the exercise. The campaign involved cleaning trenches, sweeping and collecting garbage along [...]
Philippines - Regional sanitation summit convenes
27 Mar 08
Dumaguete City (27 March) — The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in partnership with the Provincial Government of Negros Oriental and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) will hold a two-day regional summit on sustainable sanitation this coming April 2-3, 2008 at the Provincial Convention Center, Dumaguete City.Responding to the urgent call [...]
