Sanitation Update

A few years ago, Charles Kyagaba used to sell up to 300kg of fresh fish at the Gaba landing site near the Ugandan capital of Kampala each day, but now the situation is markedly different.
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According to environmentalists, over-fishing, pollution and other human activities along Lake Victoria as well as climate change are threatening to destroy [...]

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Aug 21 - With 2.5 billion people around the world living without a toilet, sanitation experts are pushing to get this most basic need onto the political agenda.
Better sanitation improves human health, promotes economic and social development and also helps the environment.
These are the arguments development professionals are using to try to persuade governments and [...]

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The Kathmandu Municipal Corporation (KMC) is planning to construct mobile toilets in 50 different locations in collaboration with private sector. KMC has stated that these mobile toilets will solve the problem of lack of public toilets in the municipality.[...] An agreement was made among the stakeholders including the KMC, the Department of Roads and traffic [...]

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The Ministry of Education and Sports, Nepal is going to introduce value based education programme on water and sanitation with special focus on school students. The programme has developed and included value based education in the school syllabus with an objective to conserve water sources and promote proper sanitation.
The programme will be carried out jointly [...]

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Organised by: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
The course explores the current wastewater situation, pollution management practices and policies and their drawbacks. It will also suggest an alternative paradigm suited to the Indian situation. Hands-on design workshops will teach participants how to design and implement localised wastewater treatment systems.
Course modules:

Status of water and excreta management [...]

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Many water treatment facilities in China are failing to remove toxic organic chemicals and levels of some chemicals are actually increasing during treatment, according to researchers from Nankai University, Tianjin.
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One of the chemicals monitored is nonylphenol, released during the breakdown of nonylphenol polyethoxylate detergents. Nonylphenol is an endocrine disrupter and, together with nonylphenol ethoxylates, is [...]

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The “Diorano WASH” project on Madagascar is seeking input from the public. Cameramen will roam around 11 regions interviewing villagers about their water and sanitation problems. The objective is to get a better idea of grassroots opinions and needs, explained Diorano WASH executive Vero Maminiaina. After the interviews, a workshop will be held to find [...]

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Water and sewage are perennial challenges in {Iraq], where the overhaul of decrepit public works has been hindered by years of war and neglect.
Nearly a billion litres of raw sewage is dumped into Baghdad waterways each day — enough to fill 370 Olympic-sized pools.
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Since 2003, the United States has spent about $2.4 billion on Iraq’s [...]

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While the rate of people fleeing their homes in Iraq has decreased during the first half of 2008, daily life for the thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in tent camps remains grim, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
“Tent camp residents have little or no access to basic services, cannot protect themselves against [...]

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Having worked as a primary health care professional for over a decade, Dr. Damber Kumar Nirola, Psychiatrist at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has “witnessed a slow but steady “toilet revolution” over the years”. He personally witnessed the “the evolution of toilets from open fields to gunny sack structures to simple pits [...]

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