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India – Misleading Facts: Still We Can Celebrate World Toilet Day [opinion]
29 Nov 12
November 19 is World Toilet Day. The monitoring of sanitation facilities globally remained a challenge to the country governments and International agencies. It is sometimes said that the cursory assessment reports (e.g. JMP-Joint Monitoring Programme) of the facts about the …Continue reading →
Renewed research call for faecal sludge secondary treatment options in Bangladesh
25 Nov 12
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre announces a renewed research call for: Faecal sludge secondary treatment technologies for challenging settings This call is part of the BRAC WASH II programme in which EUR 1.5 million will …Continue reading →
India, Bengaluru: the business of the honey-suckers
27 Sep 12
A new IRC paperexplores some contributions being made by honey-sucker tanker operators — that renders a small-scale sanitation service informally and within the private sector — on waste (faecal) extraction and, in some cases, reuse. Operating outside the legal framework …Continue reading →
India, Kerala: Mazhapolima participatory well recharge programme – video
23 Aug 12
This video highlights India’s largest well recharge programme in Thrissur, Kerala. The Mazhapolima participatory well recharge programme aims to (eventually) recharge about 450,000 dug wells in the district, through community awareness and action. It was set up by former District …Continue reading →
Bangladesh: government cuts water and sanitation budget by US$ 121 million
06 Jul 12
The Bangladesh government has reduced its allocation for water and sanitation by around 10 billion taka (US$ 121 million) in the proposed 2012-13 budget. This is 29 per cent less than in 2011-2012. Just two months earlier at the SWA …Continue reading →
Asia: reducing lost water could bring water to millions
04 Jul 12
Millions of people in Asia and the Pacific could have access to clean water if leaks were plugged and water utility reforms adopted, says a new study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). “By cutting the amount of lost water …Continue reading →
India, Bengaluru: commercial productive use of faecal sludge
15 May 12
Waste is a resource in the wrong place. People who have no sewer connection do go to the toilet though urban authorities seem to think differently given the neglect of the multitude of sanitation self-service models that have emerged in …Continue reading →
India: Bollywood actress becomes national sanitation brand ambassador
07 May 12
Vidya Balan, who received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 2011 Bollywood hit ‘The Dirty Picture’, will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture in India. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh …Continue reading →
National level Workshop on Appropriate Toilet Technology, Gramalaya, Tiruchirapalli, India
07 May 12
Indian NGO Gramalaya is organising a National level Workshop on Appropriate Toilet Technology from 9-11 May 2012 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, with the support of Arghyam, Bangalore and UNICEF, Chennai. In this participatory workshop, field workers will be joined by …Continue reading →
India: bride awarded US$ 10,000 for demanding toilet after marriage
07 May 12
A young woman who sparked a “sanitation revolution” in her village by forcing her husband to build a toilet in their home has been presented with a cheque for 500,000 Rupees (US$ 10,000). Anita Narre of Chichouli village of Betul …Continue reading →
