Sanitation Update

More than 1 billion people in developing countries still have no toilets and 900 million people no clean water, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander [from DFID, the UK Department for International Development] said [on 28 Oct 2008] on the 150th anniversary of the Great Stink in London.
Douglas Alexander announced an increased effort to bring an [...]

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Twenty-five million people across Africa could gain access to safe water and basic sanitation over the next five years as a result of a new policy launched today by International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander [of DFID, the UK Department for International Development].
The policy will see DFID work to meet its £200 million commitment to address [...]

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Determined to offer a “Clean Bhutan” as a gift to the new King, about 1,300 civil servants, police, business people, school children and local villagers equipped with shovels, sickles, spades and RSPN sacks carried out the “Clean Bhutan” campaign in Trashigang municipal area
[...] Trashigang Dzongda Dorji Norbu addressing the gathering said that it was a [...]

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MACAU, Nov. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ — The eighth annual World Toilet Summit and Expo will commence in Macau today with a keynote address from His Royal Highness, Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, Chair of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation.
The summit, organised by the World Toilet Organization (WTO), MP Asia (MPA) and [...]

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After bagging the Centre-sponsored Nirmal Gram Puraskar award in May 2008, the district of East Singhbhum, Jharkhand, was visited on October 21st by an international team researching successful Unicef-sponsored projects across the world. The 17-member team comprising representatives from eight countries of Asia and Africa team visited four villages and schools which had benefited from [...]

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Ahmedabad, November 2 : Sweepers from the Valmiki and Dalit community of Gandhinagar have written to the President of India, Pratibha Patil, requesting her to permit them to commit mass suicide. 
Deprived of proper wages, housing, sanitation and other basic amenities, about 35 sweepers have signed the petition for mass self-immolation.  (…)
As many as 94 labourers [...]

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Kurukshetra (Haryana), Nov 3 (IANS) At the arena of the war in the Indian epic Mahabharata, another age-old evil is about to be conquered. In about 400 of the 417 villages of this district, people have stopped defecating in the open heralding a sanitation revolution in these parts.
Villagers in this district no longer greet each [...]

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DRIVING SUSTAINABLE SANITATION THROUGH MARKET-BASED INITIATIVES
The Business Case for Alleviating Poverty
The ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (a term coined by CK Prahalad) is a huge emerging market that businesses can tap on. The result is a win-win situation that will:
– eradicate poverty,
– improve bottomline for commercial organisations while serving public causes, and
– provide the impetus [...]

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Manila - Two South Korean cities have flushed away competition and won a best public toilets contest in Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. WHO said Seongbuk, which is part of Seoul, and the city of Jinju bested other cities in Asia in providing well-maintained public sanitary facilities.
The mayors of Seongbuk and [...]

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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 lowest of Indian [...]

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