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Sharing, learning and collaborating at the University of Colorado annual WASH Symposium. Read more...
Report of a Watershed empowering citizens webinar on adjusting your advocacy to COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...
Smarter emergency measures against COVID-19 needed to ensure lasting solutions in service provision. Read more...
Two major development players simultaneously publish papers supporting a more 'systems' based approach. Read more...
My story of empowerment starts from a toilet, or to be precise the lack of it. Read more...
Who'd have guessed the biggest news item so far in 2020 would involve being told how to wash your hands? Yet it has been – at least for those of us who can, who have access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and can afford or find such luxuries as hand sanitiser or soap. Read more...
The global community has a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals – can we? Read more...
How to hold governments accountable for timely bill payments to water utilities. Read more...
Why sanitation matters in the climate discourse. Read more...
Sanitation is chronically underfunded, perhaps that’s because we’re not asking for money in the right way or from the right source. Read more...
How combining Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and market-based approaches can help. Read more...
The question is not if, but how they should be involved. Read more...
Hygiene is both the first and the last defence against diseases due to climate change. Read more...
What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
Water and sanitation comprise an increasingly important focus for global health and development philanthropy, but the approach has often been piecemeal, resulting in broken pipes and pumps, disillusioned donors, and suffering beneficiaries. Read more...
Finding ways to build and finance strong WASH systems, including everyone along the way. Read more...
Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation? Read more...
Why networking and collective action are essential to systems change. Read more...
Ahead of the European elections of 23 May. What can you do for water and sanitation for all, forever in Europe and beyond? Read more...