Standing in a Really Long Line: Toilet Queue Serves Indian Village Effort to Promote Sanitation Awareness
The Janadesar village in the arid Marwar Region of India teamed up with the Jal Bahagirathi Foundation on World Toilet Day
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Drinking Water Access on Target for Millennium Development Goals, while Sanitation Falls Short, Report Says
World Health Organization and UNICEF has found that the world is on track to surpass the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water access, but will fall short by one billion people for sanitation if current trends continue.
Kenyan Prison Uses Constructed Wetland to Improve Sanitation
Low cost, low maintenance water treatment system in Kenyan prison proves better for small communities than traditional waste water treatment.
David Kuria: Sanitation and Toilet Entrepreneur
In the sub-Saharan region, 80% of recorded illnesses are water-born diseases, and more than two-thirds of these people don’t have access to basic sanitation. While access to safe drinking water is gaining importance in the political arena, it’s still hard to talk about restrooms and toilets, but today I’m speaking with a man who really does know toilets.
US Projects Give Millions for Water and Sanitation to Tribes
The U.S. government is looking to get tribal homes on a par with the rest of the nation through a $90 million stimulus package for water and sanitation access.
Sanitation Crisis Brewing in U.S. Tent Cities
As hundreds of thousands lose their jobs and homes monthly, a new population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) haunts the American landscape. From Sacramento to Seattle, water and sanitation conditions within the resulting camps and shantytowns fall far below par. Between the river and the railway tracks of Sacramento Depression-era history repeats itself, reports the […]
Australian Aid Flows to Zimbabwe for Water, Sanitation and Health
Beleaguered Zimbabweans can look forward to at least $10 million from Australia – a country with a water crisis of its own. Less than a week after President Obama announced a renewed year of U.S. sanctions for Zimbabwe, Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith made public his country’s decision to reinitiate aid. Australia is one […]
Sierra Leone Fights Corruption, Improves Sanitation
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — In a country endowed with natural resources, but fraught with conflict and corruption, President Ernest Bai Koroma is doing what he can to expose the leaks. His foreign minister of foreign affairs points to improper sanitation facilities as a sign of persisting problems, reports the BBC. As 2015, the United Nation’s […]
Overcoming the sanitation stigma: An interview with author Rose George
In an interview with Circle of Blue, freelance journalist and author Rose George explores the politics of sanitation. She discusses sanitation’s crucial but linguistically fickle role in social dialogue. George elaborates on the history of sanitation both above and below the equator, as well as touching on recent successes and failures. Her new book — […]
Clinton Global Initiative commits millions to water and sanitation
Safe water equals better health. Members at the recent annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) have taken this equation seriously, announcing their aspirations to improve access to quality water and health care for 8.5 million people across the world. The commitments in sum totaled over $400 million and extend over the next five […]
ITT calls for investment in sanitation during IWA conference
VIENNA — ITT Corporation’s chief executive officer, Steve Loranger, called for more corporate investment in water sanitation during a panel discussion at the International Water Association’s World Water Congress in Vienna last week. “The impact of poor sanitation on the health of people in some of the world’s developing countries is well-documented and inescapable, but […]
Indonesia launches clean water, sanitation campaign
JAKARTA – In synchrony with the United Nations’ Year of Sanitation, Indonesia is launching a campaign to improve its population’s access to clean water and sanitation, IRIN reports. According to the World Bank, 220 million Indonesians currently live without adequate services. Launched in August, The National Strategy for Community-Based Total Sanitation plans to provide 10,000 […]
