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Successful multi-stakeholder efforts that have transformed disagreements over water into collaborative partnerships have shaped human history and often contributed to the rise of great civilisations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt and the pre-Columbian cultures of Latin America. This is why, in 2009,... Read more...
Due to his impending retirement, Aat van der Wel has transferred his duties as Managing Director of WASTE to Jacqueline Barendse as of 1 February 2011. Read more...
Paul Post, who worked as a Senior Lecturer in Sanitary Engineering at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands, for more than 30 years, passed away on 1 January 2011 Read more...
Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Read more...
The International Conference on Water and Wastewater with focus on privatization and benchmarking will be held in Tehran's Milad Tower on April 27 to 28 in cooperation with National Water and Wastewater Engineering Co. (NWWE). Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
The government of Nepal is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5,500 community schools, or almost one in six schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...
This is a follow-up to the entry about the Berlin Water Utility referendum posted on 2nd February 2011. Berlin’s referendum on February 13th has successfully passed a law demanding the disclosure of all contracts documenting the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works. Despite the low... Read more...
Out of five presentations made on the day dedicated to WASH governance, three were on the West Nile Project: Summary of the process and achievements of the initiative, including presentation of the accountability toolkit Case Study 1: "People's voices, the leader's response", Nebbi... Read more...
A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, according to the co-ordinators, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). This represents a 73 percent increase in programme participation compared to 2009... Read more...
The government is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5500 community schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. The government has allocated Rs. 1.1 billion [US$ 15 million] for the purpose. According to Department of Education, the drop out rate of girl... Read more...
Out of the five presentations made on the day dedicated to WASH governance, three were on the West Nile Project: Summary of the process and achievements of the initiative, including presentation of the accountability toolkit. Case study 1: "People's voices, the leader's response", Nebbi... Read more...
L’interview du Dr. Akissa BAHRI, Coordinatrice de la Facilité africaine de l’eau – FAE/BAD. Read more...
Maintained by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), this web page provides an online reference, including a searchable database, on enabling technologies for handwashing with soap for programme managers. Read more...
Poor hygiene exacerbated by growing piles of rubbish and the current political crisis are all factors that haelth experts and residents say contributed to a dry-season cholera outbreak in Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire. So far eight people out of 61 infected have died. The first case - in... Read more...
World Water Day 2011 is focusing international attention on the rapid growth of urban populations. The theme ‘Water for cities: responding to the urban challenge’ wants governments, communities, organisations and individuals to address the problems around urban water management. Read more...
It costs a lot of money to provide low quality water and sanitation services – more expensive technology does not always raise standards. Research in four countries has found that switching from boreholes to small piped services can triple the costs but often leaves people with the same sub-... Read more...
The way in which public funds are used to support sanitation can have widely diverging results in terms of provision of sustainable sanitation services, particularly in terms of effectiveness and equity. Read more...