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Two separate pollution incidents have hit the drinking water supply of the Chinese city of Hangzhou (pop. 9 million), Zhejiang Province, in the beginning of June 2011. In the first incident, the drinking water supply of more than half a million people was cut off when phenol (carbolic acid) spilled... Read more...
The Rotary Club will spend 5.5 million Rupees (US$ 121,000) to provide clean drinking water and proper sanitation in schools in Mussoorie, said Rotary District 3080 Governor Madhukar Malhotra. DG Malhotra was attending a programme on the Sanitation and Drinking Water Project for schools held at the... Read more...
The outputs of the the project "Researching Gender Aspects of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Projects with Pacific Communities" (2009-2011) have been published on genderinpacificwash.info The study focuses on two Pacific case studies that incorporate gender strategies and support community decision... Read more...
Can households in Asia be given better information about the sanitation choices they can make and more options for financing them? Is the role of women in small scale sanitation businesses being overlooked? These were some of the questions that flowed from an enthusiastic five-day workshop in Dien... Read more...
Despite a significant increase in public water supply, one million families in Chennai, about a third of the city's population, rely on sachets, PET bottles and cans of water for daily consumption. Sales of packaged water continue to soar in a state that already has 680 licensed private drinking... Read more...
His childhood experience with ill-equipped schools in the provinces inspired businessman Napoleon Co to build toilets for poor Muslim and Christian kids in Mindanao. Read more...
An interim water supply project will hopefully provide relief to residents in south and north Thimphu city who have been going without water for almost four days a week. Authorities are blaming an unprecedented construction boom and the increasing population for the capital city’s persistent water... Read more...
Prisoners in Orissa state, India and in Sunsari District, eastern Nepal, are being deprived of proper sanitation and safe drinking paper, according to local newspaper reports. India, Orissa At a meeting in April 2011 on jail administration, Orissa's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik asked officials... Read more...
More than five projects aiming to augment water supply for the growing Mumbai metropolitan region are facing opposition from locals and the tribal population in rural areas. They are demanding that they get water first before going ahead with the projects. The projects, financed by the Mumbai... Read more...
Some 385 primary schools run by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have no water purifiers. They are supplied by water tankers of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). A recent study by the MCD health department showed that 18 per cent of tanker water supplied by the DJB is contaminated. Therefore the... Read more...
The Kathmandu Valley Water Supply Management Board ( KVWSMB ) is going to establish 30 monitoring centres throughout the Kathmandu Valley to curb rampant groundwater extraction. The centres, which are coming into operation by mid-May 2011, will monitor the quality and quantity of groundwater. Both... Read more...
The Sri Lankan government aims to reach 100 per cent coverage in safe sanitation and water by 2020, said Minister of Water Supply and Drainage Dinesh Gunawardena at the Fourth South Asian Conference on Sanitation ( SACOSAN-IV ). The current coverage figure for safe water and sanitation was 85.5 per... Read more...
UNICEF Nepal and Finland have signed an agreement on "Aligning for Action: Sanitation and Water for all in the Context of Climate Change in Nepal". The agreement outlines the Finnish Government's grant of Euro 9.8 million (US$ 14.3 million) over five years for UNICEF Nepal's Water and Sanitation... Read more...
India is sitting on 89.95 billion rupees (US$ 2 billion) of unused foreign aid for water supply and sanitation, according to a report by government auditor Comptroller and Auditor-General of India (CAG). As of 31 March 2010, unutilised committed external assistance for 16 sectors, including water... Read more...
April 13thseven South Asian leaders signed the “Colombo Declaration” by which they agreed to improve the access to sanitation in their countries. One of the main commitments stated in the declaration calls for adherence to the values of participation and accountability. Whereas the declaration is... Read more...
[caption id="attachment_5121" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="With this photo on Facebook local resident Akshay Arora asks the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to "kindly send some one and get it clean this Toilet/Urinal". One day later on 7 April 2011, MCD replied: "Your complaint... Read more...
United through their national federation, employees of water districts in the Philippines raised their voice against the seizure of surplus benefits by their direct superiors. Whereas most of the employees are still waiting for last year’s annual rice allowances, members of numerous directory... Read more...
Photo: G.N.Rao, The Hindu Photo: G.N. Rao, The Hindu These extraordinary photos were published last year, March 2010, on International Women's Day in The Hindu here and here . They show a group of tribal women drawing water from an agricultural well at Govind Tanda in Karepalli mandal (division) of... Read more...
S.M. Sehgal Foundation received the 3rd National Ground Water Augmentation Award-2009 on the occasion of World Water Day 2011. The award, instituted by the Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, is given for “innovative practices of groundwater augmentation through rainwater harvesting... Read more...
When faced with a difficult problem, one of the best ways to determine the way ahead is to ask the advice of someone who has faced a similar situation. This logic motivated a group of extremely enthusiastic WASH practitioners from Liberia and Sierra Leone to visit Bangladesh in November 2010. They... Read more...