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Uganda: EABL Donates Sh175 Million for Sanitation Projects
23 Sep 08
EAST African Breweries (EABL) Foundation has donated sh175m for water and sanitation projects that will benefit over 30,000 people within Kampala and its environs.The projects involve provision of a 10,000 litre water tank at Kampala Dispensary and Maternity Centre, which will provide clean water to patients and health workers.EABL Foundation partnered with the Agency for [...]
Somalia: Finding Water in Mogadishu
23 Sep 08
MOGADISHU, Aug 13 (IPS) - Pipes, reservoirs and water treatment plants in south and central Somalia have been extensively vandalised in the years since the collapse of Siad Barre’s government in 1991. In the long absence of central authority, Mogadishu’s residents have devised their own informal water distribution systems, but there are many shortcomings.The Bimalow [...]
Tanzania: God TV Beams Hope to Karatu Villagers
22 Sep 08
Two water projects have officially been inaugurated by the Member of Parliament for Karatu district, Dr. Wilbrod Slaa. The project is for the benefit of about 6,000 people of Tloma and Gidmilanda villages in the district.The project estimated at Tsh.150 million, has been realized though the support of an American NGO known as Angel Mission [...]
Uganda: School Head Jailed Over Lack of Latrine
10 Sep 08
SEVEN people, including a headmaster, will spend six months in jail for lacking latrines at home.[...]The prosecutor, Patrick Tigawalana, told court that lack of latrines was likely to lead to an outbreak of cholera in the district. Francis Kyakulaga, the district health inspector, ordered the swoop in which 30 people, 23 of whom are yet [...]
Uganda: access to water as a constraint to educational gender equality
09 Sep 08
Kakuru, M.K.and Suzan, M.. (2008). Access to water as a constraint to educational gender equality in rural Uganda. Paper presented at: 15th International Conference on Learning, University of Illinios, Chicago, USA, 3-6 June 2008This study examines why gender inequalities persist despite deliberate efforts to eradicate them. It focuses on the interaction between school and [...]
Uganda, Kampala: lack of public toilets
09 Sep 08
Toilet coverage [in Uganda] is at an average of 80% in urban areas. In the slum areas, it is less than 40% and is 60% in rural areas. There is, for instance, only one public toilet each for the new and old taxi parks [in Kampala].Overall, there are 108 public toilets around Kampala, for a [...]
Ethiopia - Public role crucial to raise potable water, sanitation coverage
04 Sep 08
Addis Ababa, August 27 (WIC) - Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) said priority should be given to a technology that extensively involves the public so as to raise the potable water and sanitation coverage in rural areas of the country to 98 percent by 2012.Speaking at a workshop organized here to evaluate performance of the [...]
Uganda: Lake Victoria degradation threatening livelihoods
25 Aug 08
A few years ago, Charles Kyagaba used to sell up to 300kg of fresh fish at the Gaba landing site near the Ugandan capital of Kampala each day, but now the situation is markedly different.[...]According to environmentalists, over-fishing, pollution and other human activities along Lake Victoria as well as climate change are threatening to destroy [...]
Tanzania: Biwater fails in damages claim
21 Aug 08
“A British water company thrown out of Tanzania over a bungled privatisation deal has failed in its bid to win up to £10m in damages.Biwater, whose local management team was deported from Dar es Salaam in 2005, took Tanzania’s government to the World Bank’s business tribunal in 2006, arguing that its assets had been expropriated [...]
Uganda: new research to examine the sanitation crisis in slums
21 Aug 08
An interdisciplinary research program entitled “Integrated approaches and strategies to address the Sanitation Crisis in Unsewered Slum Areas in African mega-cities (SCUSA)”, funded by the UNESCO-IHE Partnership Research Fund (UPaRF), will be carried out by UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Delft, The Netherlands), Makerere University, and the Kampala City Council, both in Uganda.The SCUSA research [...]
