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.
Water shortages impede hygiene for Nepalese women
15 Dec 11
Dec 13, 2011, By Teresa Rehman, Alertnet KATHMANDU, Nepal (AlertNet) – On the fourth day of her menstrual cycle, Belkumari Paudiyal hikes for more than 20 minutes to the river below her village. She ties a petticoat round her chest …Continue reading →
Water shortages impede hygiene for Nepalese women
15 Dec 11
Dec 13, 2011, By Teresa Rehman, Alertnet KATHMANDU, Nepal (AlertNet) – On the fourth day of her menstrual cycle, Belkumari Paudiyal hikes for more than 20 minutes to the river below her village. She ties a petticoat round her chest …Continue reading →
Pakistan’s waste gets a second life
14 Dec 11
Dec. 1, 2011 – Entrepreneur turns Pakistan’s tons of garbage into a handsome profit while saving the environment. Clean” and “green” are words not usually associated with the streets of Lahore, but a garbage collecting business is changing the image …Continue reading →
Pakistan’s waste gets a second life
14 Dec 11
Dec. 1, 2011 – Entrepreneur turns Pakistan’s tons of garbage into a handsome profit while saving the environment. Clean” and “green” are words not usually associated with the streets of Lahore, but a garbage collecting business is changing the image …Continue reading →
India: crowd funding for sanitation and water
14 Dec 11
Social enterprise Milaap has set up an online microlending platform that enables anyone to give a household loan for the construction of a toilet or water connection for the poor in India. Based in Bangalore, India, with its headquarters in …Continue reading →
India: crowd funding for sanitation and water
14 Dec 11
Social enterprise Milaap has set up an online microlending platform that enables anyone to give a household loan for the construction of a toilet or water connection for the poor in India. Based in Bangalore, India, with its headquarters in …Continue reading →
Scatalog: identifying animal dung and droppings
12 Dec 11
The ideal Christmas present if you live in southern Africa. This 40 page guide has mostly life-size photographs of about 100 species of animals ranging from mice to elephants. The guide’s author Kevin Murray has apparently spent the last 18 …Continue reading →
Sanitation financing models for the urban poor – new IRC thematic overview paper
09 Dec 11
Sijbesma, C., 2011. Sanitation financing models for the urban poor. (Thematic overview paper ; 25). The Hague: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre 120 p. : 44 boxes, 1 fig., 4 tab. Includes references, glossary and lists of resources. Available …Continue reading →
Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India
08 Dec 11
Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India, December 2011. Full-text (pdf) Elizabeth Brainerd, Nidhiya Menon This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality …Continue reading →
A practical guide for building a simple pit latrine
07 Dec 11
Cavanna, S., Debus, J-P., and Nikiema, L.Z.P. (2011). A practical guide for building a simple pit latrine : how to build your latrine and use it hygienically, for the dignity, health, and well being of your family. Hardware Quality Project, …Continue reading →
