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.
Botswana - Sanitation managers urge use of ‘wastewater’
13 Mar 08
The department of water affairs, local government, waste management and pollution control, crop production, environmental health and the University of Botswana have agreed to work together to achieve global sanitation targets.They made the pledge at a press conference at Cresta Lodge on Monday, marking the National Week on Sanitation celebrations, which will be held [...]
South Africa - People need water, houses and toilets
13 Mar 08
The total eradication of the bucket system and the provision of clean water and proper houses remain elusive to many South Africans.Statistics South Africa yesterday released results of a survey conducted last year. …Despite numerous promises since 1994 that the much-loathed bucket system would be totally eradicated, 12percent of the people in the Free State [...]
United Kingdom - “PAWS” joins Loughborough University
13 Mar 08
A national organisation that supports water and sanitation projects in developing countries is celebrating a move to Loughborough University today (12 March).Partners for Water and Sanitation (PAWS) was established in 2002 in response to the United Nations Millennium Development Goal targets to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking [...]
Pakistan - 200 AJK villages to be made open defecation-free by year end
13 Mar 08
ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (APP): About 200 villages in earthquake-hit Muzaffarabad will be made open defecation-free by the end of current year under a pilot project launched by the UNICEF and its partners in the mid 2007.In the quake-ravaged areas of Azad Kashmir, 14 villages have already been granted open defecation-free status by the UNICEF [...]
WSSCC launches Global Sanitation Fund on 14 March 2008
11 Mar 08
Geneva, 7 March 2008 - The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is launching on 14 March 2008 in Geneva the Global Sanitation Fund, the first global financing mechanism to increase expenditure on sanitation and hygiene.For more info see the article published earlier in Source WeeklyRead more about the launch here [...]
Uganda - Tororo to Fine Homes Without Pit-Latrines
11 Mar 08
THE Tororo district council is to impose a sh50,000 fine on homesteads near schools that lack pit-latrines. The district health and education committee chairperson, Jacinta Ayoo, said about 50% of communities living around schools lacked pit latrines.She said the communities instead use the school pit latrines, which fill up faster and constrain authorities in terms [...]
Ethiopia: Where’s the Loo?: Earth Report documentary premieres on BBC World, 21 March 2008
10 Mar 08
WHERE’S THE LOO? is an Earth Report exploration of what the Ethiopian Government with support of Development Partners is doing to meet to the target of 100 percent sanitation coverage by 2012, and positive behavior change on hygiene practices. From the vast highlands of Amhara Region to rubbish tips in the middle of Addis Ababa, [...]
Nepal - Country plan for the International Year of Sanitation 2008
10 Mar 08
Over 80 percent of diseases (including diarrhoea, cholera, intestinal worms, trachoma, typhoid) among adults and children are caused by lack of basic sanitation, according to a new government report entitled Nepal Country Plan for International Year of Sanitation 2008.
Philippines - DOH promotes National Year of Sanitation
10 Mar 08
Tacloban City (10 March) — Centered on the theme “Sanitasyon ang Solusyon”, 2008 has been declared as the National Year of Sanitation through a Presidential Proclamation, based on the United Nations General Assembly declaring 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation.…One of the activities identified and to be implemented by the National Center for Health [...]
Afghanistan: Poor sanitation, bad toilets cause deaths, misery
08 Mar 08
ASADABAD, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - Saliha still mourns the death of her three-year-old daughter, Halima, who died due to severe diarrhoea at a hospital in Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan, on 11 January.The child had drunk contaminated water which Saliha’s family collects from a nearby river and uses for all purposes, including drinking, cooking and [...]
