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.
33rd WEDC International Conference, 7-11 April, Accra, Ghana - update
22 Mar 08
Below is an update on the conference programme. Several side events and workshops are focus on sanitation. Delegates will receive the Conference Proceedings and a CD of Sanitation Publications by WEDC, WSSCC, IWA and UNICEF.Side events:fresh thinking on urban sanitation planning (IWA/WEDC)national capacity development in support of Community Led Total sanitation (UNICEF/WEDC)sustainable approaches for [...]
Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis
20 Mar 08
United Nations, 21 March, (IPS): When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis.“A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the future,” he told the annual gathering [...]
Canada - Fight Global Poverty by Investing in Sanitation and Water
20 Mar 08
OTTAWA, March 20 /CNW Telbec/ - On the eve of World Water Day (March 22), a coalition of Canadian organizations concerned about the global sanitationcrisis is calling on the Canadian government to make investment in sanitationand water a foreign aid priority. In an open letter sent to Minister ofInternational Cooperation Beverley Oda, Sanitation & Water [...]
Ireland - Pupils tap into water project for developing countries
20 Mar 08
Pupils from a Belfast primary school have been taking part in an innovative project organised by the British Red Cross to mark World Water Day today.Children from Strandtown Primary have been keeping water diaries detailing each time they have used or come across water during a typical day.The pupils [...]
Voice of America - Development Agencies Call for Improved Sanitation
20 Mar 08
Sanitation is the theme of this year’s World Water Day (March 20). UN development agencies are calling for greater public awareness and donor support for improving sanitation in the developing world - where, for example, more than two-billion people lack access to toilets. From Washington, VOA’s William Eagle reports on the some of [...]
WHO-UNICEF Advocacy for World Water Day 2008
20 Mar 08
WHO, together with UNICEF and WSSCC under the aegis of UN-Water, developed an Advocacy Guide for World Water Day 2008. This advocacy guide outlines the steps for groups or interested individuals at the country level to participate in the campaign to improve sanitation conditions.Links to Advocacy Guide, Programme and Speeches [...]
Cambodia - Water diaries tell of life
20 Mar 08
Even now, during the dry season, water seems to penetrate all aspects of Cambodian culture. Thousands of Cambodians earn their living by rice farming, while many more live on floating villages - whole communities set adrift along the river. Life for people here is ruled by water - too little rain and the rice production [...]
Asia: Sanitation Experts Call For All-Out Efforts
20 Mar 08
BANGKOK, Mar 20 (IPS) - New technology, religion and the market must be harnessed to secure basic toilet facilities for Asia’s rural and urban poor, sanitation experts from the region said here Thursday. Currently, over 2.6 billion people across the world have no access to an organised system of toilets, of which some 1.5 billion [...]
10 ways to save water and money
20 Mar 08
…With a few small, simple changes, you can help reduce your water use, leaving more water in the rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources. These changes will also result in a lower water bill so should benefit your home finances as well:1. Consider cutting a little water usage from your morning routine. Does [...]
World Water Day: 1.5 million children’s lives could be saved if provided with proper water and sanitation
20 Mar 08
World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. This annual event offers an opportunity to highlight the necessity to do more to bring access to clean water and appropriate sanitation to more than a billion people who still lack access to basic water supply. We asked Uli Jaspers, Head of the Water and [...]
