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This news feed on sanitation is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s Environmental Health knowledge management activity and the Hygiene Improvement Project. Its purpose is to provide news, information and resources to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.
Nairobi’s Garbage Dump Pits Pickers Against NeighborsSource: David Conrad – Pulitzer Center Blog – May 14, 2012 Weighted with two heavy sacks of discarded milk bags and meat bones slung across her back, a plastic bag of rotted cabbage in her hand, Rahab Ruguru walks through … Continue reading →
Wasteportal.netThis website collects information on urban waste management with an emphasis on low and middle income Countries. There are links to relevant sites, tools, events, news and organisations. Information can be accessed by different waste management processes and topics, waste … Continue reading →
Loo and behold: Collection of potty ideasSource – Henna Rakheja, May 16, 2012 – Deccan Herald Reading your morning paper? Done with nature’s call? Now explore a place which in all likelihood will pull your eyes out and have your fingers itching to reach for your … Continue reading →
Commercial productive use of faecal sludge in Bengaluru, IndiaWaste is a resource in the wrong place. People who have no sewer connection do go to the toilet though urban authorities seem to think differently given the neglect of the multitude of sanitation self-service models that have emerged in … Continue reading →
First ever National Sustainable Sanitation Conference in HaitiSustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) and UNICEF are organising Haiti’s first ever National Sustainable Sanitation Conference. It will be held in Port-au-Prince on 12-13 June 2012. The conference aims to share information about innovative waste treatment technologies such as composting … Continue reading →
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance presence at Africa Water WeekSuSanA is co-convening Session 7 entitled “Sustainable sanitation and the role of hygiene in the value chain” of Sub-theme 1 (“Water and Sanitation for Development”) and is convening two side events: “Inspired by SuSanA: Development partners strengthen their focus on … Continue reading →
13 Loneliest Outhouses on EarthWhen you gotta go, you gotta go. And answering nature’s call – any time, anywhere – is certainly what the builders of these remote outhouses seem to have had in mind. Often situated in incredibly scenic locations, some of these … Continue reading →
Bollywood actress becomes India’s sanitation brand ambassadorVidya Balan, who received the Best Actress National Film Award for her role in 2011 Bollywood hit ‘The Dirty Picture’, will now play a role to alter the real dirty picture in India. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh … Continue reading →
National level Workshop on Appropriate Toilet Technology, Gramalaya, Tiruchirapalli, IndiaIndian NGO Gramalaya is organising a National level Workshop on Appropriate Toilet Technology from 9-11 May 2012 in Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, with the support of Arghyam, Bangalore and UNICEF, Chennai. In this participatory workshop, field workers will be joined by … Continue reading →
SuSanA – Compilation of 13 factsheets on key sustainable sanitation topicsCompilation of 13 factsheets on key sustainable sanitation topics, 2012. Link to download publication This factsheet book is a compilation of 13 thematic factsheets which were produced by the eleven SuSanA working groups. What makes these factsheets special is that … Continue reading →
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