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When Triple-S Uganda opened office in Lira district, there was nothing like coordination of WASH actors. Coordination had stopped with the disbandment of the WASH Cluster and the closure of the UNICEF office in the district. Triple-S worked with the District Water Office to give a new beginning to... Read more...
Lira district hosted the 2011 independence day celebrations, graced by the President of Uganda. Read more...
The International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia ( IIROSA ) has constructed wells to provide drinking water for residents of several Somali villages facing water scarcity. The project benefitted 50,000 families displaced by the country’s severe drought. The IIROSA also provided 35... Read more...
Workers in many clothing and textile factories in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal are denied proper sanitation facilities, a trade union survey has found. Workers were not supplied with toilet paper and being forced to use pieces of fabric, SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) secretary Chris... Read more...
Various recent sanitation sources and resources were used by Leonie Kappauf in her research study Opportunities and constraints for more sustainable sanitation through sanitation marketing in Malawi , Case study from Mzimba and Lilongwe districts , for her Master of Science research at Lougborough... Read more...
The World Bank and USAID sponsored a discussion of the Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) research report at World Bank headquarters. Read more...
El trabajo aquí desarrollado constituye un esfuerzo para identificar acciones dirigidas a garantizar la Prestación de Servicios Sostenibles a Escala, más conocida como Triple-S por sus iniciales en inglés. Read more...
Documento elaborado en el marco del proyecto Triple-S con los resultados del estudio sobre modelos de provisión de servicios de agua en Colombia. Read more...
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu (pop. 10,544) has declared a state of emergency due to severe water shortages on 28 September 2011 after existing desalination plants broke, exacerbating an already dire situation. The Australian, New Zealand and U.S. Defence forces - together with the Red Cross... Read more...
Contamination of deep groundwater with arsenic from shallower sources may not be as serious as feared — if pumping deep water is limited to domestic use, a study has found. Exposure to arsenic-contaminated groundwater has been linked to almost one in every five deaths in Bangladesh , and some 100,... Read more...
As sustainability concerns regarding water management in cities continue to increase, the challenge facing cities is for them to do more with less. SWITCH , an EU-funded programme, was a five year experiment focused on some of the key sustainability challenges in urban water management. In a number... Read more...
A shallow well in Elwany Village, Lira district in Uganda badly needs rehabilitation. But rather than collect money to repair the well, residents would rather return to a dirty pond which they used before the well was established. This is all because they were once betrayed by a treasurer whom they... Read more...
Après la Haye au Pays-Bas, c’est Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso qui a accueilli la deuxième rencontre du Consortium du projet WashTech du 4 au 7 octobre 2011. Venus du Royaume-Uni, des Pays Bas, d’Ouganda, du Ghana et du Burkina, les participants ont salué l’opportunité offerte de tirer les meilleures... Read more...
What has happened in WASHTech in the past six to nine months? Where are the technology assessment framework (TAF) and Guidance for Technology Introduction (GTI) at? T Read more...
The Business Plan 2012-2016 highlights a number interesting IRC activities, findings and opinions. Read more...
The thematic discussions ‘ Palabres de l’eau ’ (water talks) are interactive discussions between information professionals working in the water and sanitation sector. The inaugural event took place in Ouagadougou on 4 October 2011 around the theme ‘communes facing the challenges of water and... Read more...
IRC and the National network of resource centres from Burkina Faso (RCR-BF is its French acronym) jointly carried out an investigation around current information and knowledge practices in the WASH sector in Burkina Faso. Read more...
L’IRC et le Réseau National des Centres de Ressources du Burkina Faso (RCR-BF) ont mené de concert une étude, intitulée ‘Vers la gestion des connaissances et l’apprentissage sectoriel au Burkina Faso : comprendre les pratiques actuelles relatives à l’information et aux connaissances dans le secteur... Read more...
A Cotonou, dans les bas-fonds situés dans les quartiers populaires, les habitants sans latrines, se soulagent dans les eaux stagnantes avoisinantes. Nous sommes à Fifadji, un quartier populaire de Cotonou, au Bénin. Il est douze heures et Sèdami, vient d’acheter quatre boules d’akassa (mets à base... Read more...
L'autre jour, The Guardian , a publié un article qui soutenait que les projets d'eau et d'assainissement ne sont pas assez porteurs et qu’ils ne sont donc pas prêts à y investir. Read more...
