WASH News East Africa
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Uganda: Government gives Sh40 Billion to clean urban water
29 Jun 10
The Government has allocated about sh47b (€16.4) for the improvement of water quality in the Lake Victoria catchment areas. Lino Musana, the national project coordinator, said about sh13.8b ( about €5 million) has been allocated to the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) for the construction and rehabilitation of the waste water treatment facilities at [...]
Kenya: KAA Sh700m sewer line upgrades waste disposal process
24 Jun 10
Airports Authority (KAA) has completed constructing a Sh700 million sewer line, revolutionalising the corporations’ waste disposal process. The airport operator has concluded the modern drainpipe from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to the Nairobi City Council main sewer trunk line in Ruai. KAA Corporate Affairs Manager, Dominic Ngigi said Sino Hydro Corporation Ltd, a Chinese [...]
Kenya: Crisis feared as cholera outbreak kills 60
24 Jun 10
Several parts of the country face a medical crisis after 60 cholera deaths were recorded in the first six months this year. Although the number is smaller than the 86 cases reported in the same period last year, it is still worrying. A Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation update on disease outbreaks says 13 [...]
Africa: upstream states challenge Egypt over Nile waters
19 Jun 10
A water-sharing treaty among five upstream Nile Basin countries – to the exclusion of Egypt and Sudan – has reignited the longstanding dispute over water distribution. Local experts, however, say the agreement will not jeopardise Egypt’s historical share of Nile water. “Egypt has relied on the waters of the Nile for thousands of years,” Hani [...]
Kenya: pay toilet entrepeneur features in US documentary
16 Jun 10
The three young college graduates are the subject of “The New Recruits,” a fascinating PBS documentary, which aired on US television on 15 June 2010. The film chronicles their yearlong adventure with “social entrepreneurship,” a philosophy that combines humanitarianism and capitalism to fight global poverty. The young entrepreneurs are Suraj Sudhakar who sold pay-toilet services [...]
Kenya: cell phones, Google Apps help bring basic sanitation and more transparency
15 Jun 10
Nuru International, a US-based nonprofit focused on pioneering holistic, sustainable solutions to poverty, is using some Google platforms and Nokia phones to increase sanitation in Kuria, Kenya. The organization has registered a Kenyan web domain name and created an account with Google Apps, providing access to each of the 60 Kenyan staff members. GPRS-enabled handsets [...]
Kenya, Mombasa: Dutch Company invests in water project
15 Jun 10
Multi Purpose Industries (MPI), a Dutch company specialising in potable water solutions, has launched a state-of-the-art decentralised water purification unit in Kenya. MPI has invested over US$70 million in the project. The purification unit is able to produce approximately 45,000 to 75,000 litres of potable water per day from any polluted source of water. Deputy [...]
Africa: WASH United introduces the World Toilet Cup game
10 Jun 10
Hamburger SV football player Jonathan Pitroipa played the “World Toilet Cup” game in his home country of Burkina Faso where he launched the WASH United campaign on 4 June 2010. First introduced in November 2009 during the second Africa Water Week in Johannesburg, South Africa, the “World Toilet Cup” game makes a symbolic effort at tackling [...]
Africa: self-help sanitation for more than 2 million people
01 Jun 10
More than 2 million people and over 740 schools in Africa are getting improved sanitation. In a new five-year programme, development organisation Plan International will expand its existing self-help sanitation programme in six African countries (Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Malawi) and introduce it in two other countries (Ghana and Niger). The programme [...]
Eritrea: Commendable outcome registered in ensuring potable water supply Across Nation
28 May 10
The director general of Water Resource Department, Mr. Mebrahtu Eyasu, said that the vigorous endeavors exerted over the past 19 years towards ensuring equitable potable water supply have borne commendable outcome. Indicating that 75% of the people in the rural areas have now access to potable water supply, he pointed out that the expansion at [...]
