WASH News Latin America
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Haiti: cholera victims demand UN compensation
10 Nov 11
The United Nations has been hit with a demand for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation from Haitian cholera victims. The Boston, USA-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) filed the demand on behalf of some 5,000 victims. IJDH …Continue reading →
Colombia: Indifenous WAYUU women fight for fresh water
04 Nov 11
This documentary looks at one of Colombia’s largest indigenous groups, Wayuu, and their struggle for fresh water. Soon their water will be siphoned from their lands through new pipes to a nearby town, where the population is not indigenous. Due …Continue reading →
Born Latin American Confederation for Community Organization in Water and Sanitation
28 Oct 11
As part of the Latin American Management II Community Water and Sanitation, held from 13 to 15 September in Cusco, Peru with the presence of representatives of community associations in 14 countries in Latin America, including members of FANMex Environmental …Continue reading →
Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation launches new web site
07 Jul 11
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID, has launched a new website (in Spanish only) for its Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation, a financing instrument that supports water and sanitation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Launched on 7 …Continue reading →
Uruguay: legislation approved to make sewerage connections compulsory
07 Jul 11
All households in Uruguay must now have a sewerage connection. Uruguay’s House of Representatives passed a bill making sewerage connections compulsory on 5 July 2011. The new bill includes provisions to provide subsidies and grants to those who cannot afford …Continue reading →
Study suggests UN force brought cholera to Haiti
06 Jul 11
Evidence “strongly suggests” that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team of epidemiologists and physicians says. The study is the strongest argument yet that newly-arrived …Continue reading →
Dominican Republic: Tourism sector takes strict measures against cholera, top hotelier says
31 May 11
Hotels and Tourism Association (Asonahores) spokesman Arturo Villanueva said in Santo Domingo last Sunday 29 May that his sector has adopted all the necessary control measures of international standards to prevent cholera in the country’s tourism regions and that they …Continue reading →
Haiti: UN panel reports on source of cholera outbreak
17 May 11
The cholera outbreak that has so far killed 4,888 people in Haiti was caused by a strain “very similar but not identical” to current South Asian strains, a U.N. independent panel of experts said. The source of the outbreak was …Continue reading →
Latin American development bank CAF and PAHO sign water and sanitation agreement
14 Apr 11
CAF – Latin American development bank – and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) have agreed to expand their cooperation on access to water, sanitation and health in the region. The agreement, signed on April 1st, 2011, was an amendment …Continue reading →
Dialogs for Water and Climate Change: Call to Action
11 Apr 11
The National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA) has published the document “Dialogs for Water and Climate Change: Call to Action”, as a follow-up to the Dialogs on Water and Climate Change (D4WCC), held in last December 2010 in the framework …Continue reading →
