WASH News South Asia
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India, West Bengal: youth have brittle bones from arsenic poisoning, army stops staffing
02 Apr 12
Bone deformities due to arsenic poisoning of groundwater are common among the youth in Bengal, the Indian army has found. Less than 100 youths among the 2,000 who turned up for an army recruitment drive in February 2012, passed the …Continue reading →
India census: more people have a mobile phone than a household toilet
28 Mar 12
Nearly half of India’s 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the country’s latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have toilets while 49.8% defecate in the …Continue reading →
India, Delhi: how sexual violence against women is linked to water and sanitation
27 Mar 12
Girls under ten being have been raped while on their way to use a public toilet, say women living in Delhi’s slums. In one slum, boys hid in toilet cubicles at night waiting to rape those who entered. These are …Continue reading →
Bangladesh: the effect of cord cleansing on neonatal mortality in rural areas
27 Mar 12
The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 8 February 2012 The effect of cord cleansing with chlorhexidine on neonatal mortality in rural Bangladesh: a community-based, cluster-randomised trial Full-text Shams El Arifeen DrPH, et al. Background – Up to half of neonatal deaths …Continue reading →
India: government funds for sanitation inadequate, private sector should pool in
27 Mar 12
A model where public funds provide the back-end and private funds provide the front-end can fill the gap in sanitation financing in India, writes Anupam Tyagi from the International Management Institute in the Economic Times of February 9th, 2012. According …Continue reading →
India, Bihar: Poo Highway
27 Mar 12
The high incidence of open defecation in the Indian state of Bihar is not due to a lack awareness about toilets, according to this new Water for People video. In their view, it’s more of a supply chain, marketing problem. …Continue reading →
India, Mumbai: man killed for taking too long in public toilet
27 Mar 12
A slum resident from Mahim in Mumbai ended up killing his neighbour whom he felt had taken too long in a public toilet. Locals feel the tragic death could have been avoided if only the civic authorities had provided sufficient …Continue reading →
Asia: leadership for sanitation needed at both central and local level
26 Jan 12
The responsibility for sanitation in Asia is fragmented over different agencies, and in most cases the priority given to sanitation is low. Therefore more leadership and political will is needed to make sure that organisational structures function, that plans with …Continue reading →
Bangladesh: WaterAid gets Swiss and Swedish grants for WASH projects
22 Dec 11
WaterAid has signed funding agreements with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) for two WASH projects in Bangladesh. SDC and WaterAid signed a grant agreement on 30 November 2011 for …Continue reading →
Sri Lanka: government sponsors monthly newspaper insert on water conservation
24 Nov 11
The Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage has launched the Randiya tabloid paper to raise public awareness on water conservation. Randiya will be published every third Wednesday as an insert in the Dinamina newspaper published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon …Continue reading →
