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Sub-Saharan Africa: development aid and access to water and sanitation in
14 Apr 10
A study by the African Development Bank (AfDB) concludes that improved sector coordination and capacity building at the local level are some of the key elements to increase efficiency in the water and sanitation sector.The AfDB study [1] examines the trends in access to water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa using secondary data, desk research [...]
Ghana: Guinness Ghana Will Together With Other Businesses Take A Closer Look At The Country’s Water Problems
13 Apr 10
The African continent is suffering a loss of about $28.4 billion every year due to the lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities, according to the African Development Bank.And in response to this dire need, Guinness Ghana, one of the leading brewers of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in Ghana [...]
Nigeria: Toilet Queues Call Attention to Water, Sanitation Shortages
13 Apr 10
As part of activities to commemorate this year’s World Water Day (WWD 2010), WaterAid Nigeria in collaboration with the Water Supply Sanitation and Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and members of the End Water Poverty Campaign (EWPC) a week ago on Saturday, March 20 joined the rest of the world in organising the [...]
Nigeria: Water Scarcity Hits Kaduna Metropolis
08 Apr 10
Scarcity of portable water has thrown residents of Kaduna metropolis into a fix as most people now spend the better part of a whole day sourcing for water.Only few areas within the state still have water coming out of their taps, while those houses privileged enough to have boreholes within them are slightly immune from [...]
Senegal: Water quality – Ziguinchor is in a “fairly critical situation”
06 Apr 10
Senegal’s Ziguinchor Region suffers from serious pollution of its groundwater by farm runoff and salinity, warned the head of the Regional Hydraulic Division, Lamine Bodian. This aggravates an already existing shortage of potable water. A joint effort by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Senegal’s own potable water and sanitation program, PEPAM, [...]
Senegal: World Bank approves US$55 million loan for Water and Sanitation Millennium Project (PEPAM)
02 Mar 10
The World Bank’ has approved a US$55 million credit to contribute to increased access to sustainable water and sanitation services in selected rural and urban areas of Senegal within the next five years.This new financing for the Water and Sanitation Millennium Project (PEPAM) will improve access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation services for [...]
Ghana: keeping girls in school may be a matter of better sanitary protection
02 Mar 10
When boys and girls reach puberty, their bodies go through many physical changes. But for girls in Africa, the onset of menstruation can bring with it discrimination, unwanted sexual advances and the end of their education. Now a pilot study in Ghana says it doesn’t have to be that way.The study says when [...]
Liberia, Montserrado County: 3 communities in Careysburg District achieve Total Sanitation status
02 Mar 10
Liberia: Three communities meet CLTS compliance Three communities in Liberia have been declared open defecation free by the coordinating institutions of the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) program. The areas according to Public Works release are Sackie Town, Gbokolleh Town and Frank Town, all in Careysburg District, Montserrado County. The Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) [...]
Ghana, Accra: use of pan latrines outlawed
02 Mar 10
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) says effective January 1, 2010, the use of pan latrines in the metropolis has been outlawed. Consequently, the assembly has warned that it will begin prosecuting offenders, since it has given enough public education for residents to convert their facilities to approved ones.The move is part of attempts to comply [...]
Burkina Faso: call for proposals for rural household sanitation
02 Mar 10
EuropeAid has launched a Euro 10 million call for proposals (in French only) for rural household sanitation projects in Burkina Faso covering the following types of activityrural household latrine constructionanimation / hygiene awarenesstraining staff of regional departments and local communities in household sanitationsupport to municipalities in developing their Municipal Development Plan (DCP) for water and [...]
