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.
India: former scavengers take fashion show to UN Headquarters, New York (04 Jul 08) Kenya: Acute diarrhoea reported in western region (04 Jul 08) At least 34 cases of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) have been reported in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru in the western region, a senior health official has said.
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The cases were attributed to the contamination of a spring in the Mbaruk area in the district.
Intervention measures included supplying the residents with clean water, a ban [...]
India: Sulabh features in UNDP report on business strategies that engage the poor (04 Jul 08) Sulabh International ’s work on low-cost sanitation in India and abroad was chosen as one of the 50 successful business models for targetting the poor that feature in UNDP’s new report “Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor” released on 1 July 2008. The full case study “Sulabh International: A Movement [...]
Ethiopia: Sewage and garbage fill Addis Ababa streets (BBC) (02 Jul 08) By Ernest Waititu, BBC Focus On Africa magazine
Sanitation in Ethiopia’s capital city leaves a lot to be desired - and it is the poor who are most vulnerable as a result. (…) The government is aware of the problem, admitting that dilapidated sewers, a lack of toilet facilities and general poor sanitation in the city [...]
India: Eco-friendly methods to handle sanitation problems (02 Jul 08) MUMBAI: Public sanitation, which has been a chronic problem at most religious congregations in the country, can now be handled in a natural and eco-friendly manner, say experts. (…) Public sanitation infrastructure is grossly inadequate in most of the religious places where lakhs of people congregate. (…) For one million people, at least 40,000 to [...]
India - New toilet technology empowers low-caste Indian women (02 Jul 08) UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Usha Chaumar was seven years old when she began collecting human excrement with her mother in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
By the age of 10 she had married and, with her mother-in-law, continued going from house to house performing this demeaning task.
“They used to call me ‘Bhangi’ (part of the [...]
Caribbean - Addressing sanitation issues critical (01 Jul 08) Many areas of the Caribbean, both urban and rural, still do not have access to proper sanitation facilities, and sustained policies must be developed to address the issue.
While more developed countries like the Bahamas, Barbados, and the British Virgin Islands, have near 100 per cent access to potable water and sanitation services and facilities, [...]
Congo - 6 billion FCFA for sanitation in Brazzaville (01 Jul 08) Brazzaville, Congo - The Congolese government Monday released 6 billion F CFA to improve sanitation in the capital, Brazzaville, which is facing serious sanitation problems.
The Congolese minister of the Economy, Finance and Budget, Pacifique Issoïbeka, and the MP and Mayor of Brazzaville, Hugues Ngouélondélé, signed an agreement Monday facilitating the release of the money.
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Dutch crown prince broaches ‘deadly taboo’ of African toilets (30 Jun 08) Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands raised eyebrows at the African Union summit in Egypt on Monday after broaching what he called the “deadly taboo” of toilets.
The Prince of Orange told leaders from 53 African nations that “perhaps you, like many others, will find it difficult to go home and speak passionately about sanitation and [...]
Bangladesh - Poor sanitation management making the City more polluted (30 Jun 08) Zahura Begum lives in a city slum. She works in a number of houses as a maid in her Tejgoan neighbourhood. Though she cleans others’ houses, her own home always remains dirty.
There are about 500 rooms in the slum she lives in. There are only four toilets for nearly 4,500 people. Hence, many residents [...]
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