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The principles of community-led total sanitation are being extended to schools and urban areas in eight African countries.IRC will contribute to a school-led total sanitation (SLTS) component in a broader five-year programme led by Plan Netherlands. Read more...
Sandram Maweru, Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development disclosed during a briefing on Tuesday 14 March 2011 in Lilongwe that the Government will launch a sanitation and hygiene campaign on Saturday 19 March 2011 as one way of improving hygiene in low-income areas of... Read more...
Du 22 au 26 février 2011, le projet WASHCost a organisé au Burkina Faso une grande rencontre de la Recherche. La trentaine de participants à cette rencontre sont venus du Burkina Faso, du Ghana, de l’Inde, du Mozambique et des Pays Bas. L’objectif de la rencontre a été, entre autres, de capitaliser... Read more...
The 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge is offering US$1 million to a team of university students who come up with the best innovation to improve access to water and sanitation in developing countries. On 5 March 2011, the five regional winning teams were announced: Boston University School of... Read more...
A new global map could help improve water resource management and climate modelling, and eventually lead to new insights into a range of geological processes. The map uses permeability data to a much greater depth than before - up to approximately 100 metres - and across greater areas. This makes... Read more...
Dans le cadre de la recherche à l’échelle nationale, l’équipe du projet WASHCost Burkina Faso a organisé une collecte de données au mois d’août 2010. Cette collecte de données appelée collecte de la saison pluvieuse fait suite à celle organisée en saison sèche de Mars à mai 2010. Elle a couvert l’... Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
New US legislation proposes to appoint an International Water Issues Diplomatic Coordinator and to set up a Bureau for Global Water Aid at USAID. Democratic representative from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the Global Water Access and Equity Act (H.R.6565) in Congress on 21 December 2010. It... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...
Les acteurs du secteur de l’eau, l’hygiène et l’assainissement (WASH en anglais) ont été formés à la création et l’animation de blogs le mardi 1 mars 2011 dans les locaux des 2iE à Ouagadougou. Read more...
Le journal “Knowledge Management for Development journal” lance un appel à contributions pour son tout premier numéro francophone, dont la date limite de soumission est le 1er juin 2011 et la parution prévue en décembre. Ce premier numéro sera consacré à la gestion, circulation et au partage des... Read more...
Plan Niger is one of several NGOs working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and government health workers on community-led total sanitation (CLTS). A project there is showing people from scores of villages the dangers of open defecation. Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation said this would require behavioural change among Ghanaians towards... Read more...
UNICEF has again chosen Anambra State as one of the few states to benefit from the rural water programmes of the Water Supply and Sanitation Reform Programme (WSSSRP) and Support to Reforming Institutions (SRIP). Briefing newsmen at a workshop organised by UNICEF, the state UNICEF consultant, Amina... Read more...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide US$ 29.65 million to support urgent rehabilitation works - restoration and stabilization of water supply and sanitation services in the Municipalities of Harare, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Chegutu, Masvingo and Kwekwe. The Urgent Water Supply and... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="192" caption="Image via Wikipedia"] [/caption] Dans l’ouvrage « Le Droit à l’eau : une urgence humanitaire », Bernard Drobenko analyse la nécessité de répondre à un besoin humain fondamental. Le droit à l’eau doit être compris comme la nécessité de disposer... Read more...
Like any other Kenyan slum, Waruku settlement, part of Nairobi's sprawling Kangemi slums is bursting under population pressure. The mud and corrugated iron walled shanties are packed together - neighbours can literally talk to each other from the comfort of their beds. Plots are separated by... Read more...
With a population exceeding 10,000, Nyankanga ward in Musoma District faces acute shortage of water, a situation that forces its people especially women and children to walk long distance in search of water. The nearest constant supply of safe water is Lake Victoria, which is an over two-hour round... Read more...
The City of Cape Town is looking to harvest methane gas from water treatment plants to make the city more self-sufficient, the city’s executive director for utility services, Lungile Dlamini has revealed. The plan to use the methane gas from sewage was already at an advanced stage and the city was... Read more...
Selling water at more than Sh2 per 20 litre jerrycan will attract a heavy punishment including withdrawal of licences, water vendors have been warned. Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company managing director Moses Kinya said water vendors should not take advantage of the shortage in Mombasa and other... Read more...
