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.
Menstrual hygiene and the need for women friendly toilets
29 Feb 08
Most sanitation programmes are silent about women and adolescent girls’ need to clean and change menstrual towels and menstrual management tends to be ignored in latrine design and construction and excluded from hygiene education packages. Even reproductive health and preventive health programmes in developing countries often do not address this sensitive issue. [...]
China - ‘Toilet-to-tap’ coming to China, professor says
29 Feb 08
WASHINGTON DC — In 2010 China will embrace “toilet-to-tap” water treatment technology, predicts Xia Siqing, an environmental science professor at Tongji University in Shanghai and former visiting professor at Arizona State University, according to a Feb 20 story on Environmental Science Technology Online News.Professor Xia is experimenting and testing “toilet-to-tap” purification techniques with a small-scale [...]
Ghana - Court orders plan to phase out carrying of human excreta
29 Feb 08
The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) three months to come out with a comprehensive plan to phase out the practice, whereby human excreta is carried by some people in society.The court’s order followed an agreement reached between Mr Stanley Amarteifio, counsel for AMA and Nana Adjei Ampofo, an Accra legal [...]
Practical manual for the construction of pit latrines
29 Feb 08
Dutch NGO, Foundation Connect International, has published a simple and practical manual for the construction of pit latrines with a focus on slab production. The manual has been tested by the Southern Highlands Participatory Organisation (SHIPO), Connect International’s partner organisation in Tanzania.The manual can be downloaded hereComments on the manual are welcome [...]
The International Year of Sanitation 2008: from global movement to local action
29 Feb 08
The proclamation of 2008 as International Year of Sanitation (IYS) has handed the sanitation sector a great advocacy tool. However, big advocacy drives can also disrupt daily life on the ground, where projects need to be implemented and people connected to basic services. Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) Coordinators from [...]
East Asia - Over 200,000 children die in water-borne diseases in East Asia
29 Feb 08
BALI, Indonesia, Feb. 26 — Over 200,000 children died in East Asia per year and a half of them were in Indonesia, due to water-borne diseases such as diarrhea, the World Bank said here Tuesday.Almud Weitz, regional team Leader of WB’s Water and Sanitation Program in East Asia and the Pacific, said that the diseases [...]
West Africa: Region Ranks Lowest On Sanitation
29 Feb 08
West Africa is the worst sub-region in the world in terms of access to sanitation services, according to UNICEF Nigeria.Mohammed El-Fatiih Yousif, the Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene section, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Durban, South Africa. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);He said:” Only about 36 [...]
ASKNet - The African Sanitation Knowledge Network launched
29 Feb 08
ASKNet was officially launched on 19 February 2008 at AfricaSan 2008 in Durban, South Africa.ASKNet’s mission is to: “enhance the ability of academics and professionals across the disciplines to contribute to the mainstreaming and up-scaling of sustainable sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the benefit of livelihoods, health, and the environment”.The members of ASKNet’s temporary board [...]
