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India:Rs 101 Crore For Himachal’s Total Rural Sanitation Program
30 May 08
Shimla:Though the total rural sanitation program was launched late in the hill state but it had bettered the national average in targets achieved. Deva Singh Negi, a government administrator of the program speaking at a World Bank sponsored workshop today stated this and added that the rural development department had a Rs 101 crore [...]
India: National Workshop on Sustainable Sanitation
30 May 08
A two day long National Workshop Workshop on Sustainable Sanitation as an initiative began on 19 May 2008 with a clarion call to assess the resources, identify the needs, and address sector specific intervention to meet the infrastructure and human resource requirement on hygiene education, community mobilization and behavior change programme. Organised by the Department [...]
India - He put his village on global map through a 100% sanitation drive
30 May 08
Jalilpur (Chandauli), May 12. In the era of gram pradhans owning palatial houses and zipping in snazzy MUVs, the head of this village lives in a rented house. And despite international renown, he has not even a cycle of his own.Sri Prakash Singh (51) is a clutter-buster. Not just of this village 15 kms from [...]
Sulabh International plans to open branches in 50 countries
30 May 08
Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, India, revealed in an interview published in April 2008 in the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) “Water Champion” series, that his organisation plans to open branches in 50 countries. Sulabh has already constructed and is maintaining public toilets in Afghanistan and Bhutan and has provided training [...]
Pakistan: Child Health and Sanitation Week promotes hygiene to save young lives
30 May 08
By Sandra BisinTAKHTBAI, Pakistan, 5 May 2008 – In the remote town of Takhtbai in the North West Frontier Province, people took to the streets recently in a march to raise awareness during Pakistan’s biannual Child Health and Sanitation Week.In the course of the week, events to reduce child deaths and disease by promoting better [...]
India - Polio cases highest in India
30 May 08
NEW DELHI: India continues to have the world’s highest number of polio cases this year, with the disease having crippled more children till April than it did during the same period in 2007.…The children who got polio despite multiple doses, did not get enough number of doses to develop adequate protection to polio virus,” a [...]
India, Orissa: Bamboo pipes to transport water
19 May 08
When all attempts at alerting government to the water scarcity in Orissa’s Malkangiri district failed, a group of tribal women turned to an ingenious traditional solution - using bamboo poles to transfer water from a stream to their village.[...]Over a hundred women from the five villages embarked on a project to cut, polish and join [...]
Bangladesh: UK government lobbies for ‘disastrous’ mine scheme
19 May 08
“The UK government has been actively supporting plans by a British company to build an open-cast mine in Bangladesh. The mine in Phulbari, proposed by UK company Global Coal Management, would destroy the homes of more than 40,000 people and threaten the water supplies of a further 100,000″, reports the UK activist group World Development [...]
Nepal: Towards disabled-friendly water solutions
19 May 08
Traditional coverage of access to basic amenities like water and sanitation has inadvertently excluded the needs of the disabled.Creating user-friendly water and sanitation services for the disabled: the experience of WaterAid Nepal and its partners, a discussion paper by WaterAid Nepal outlines the problems faced by the disabled in the country in accessing water and [...]
India: Water Aplenty, Nor a Drop to Drink
18 May 08
Over 37.7 million people in India are affected by water-borne diseases due to contaminated drinking water supply and an estimated 1.5 million children die of diarrhoea each year, according to newly available statistics [1].Compiled through collaboration between the government and the NGO WaterAid the new figures belie official claims that 94 percent of rural and [...]
