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Presentations on Markets, technology and toolkits: viability and sustainability during the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Services Delivery Symposium, Addis Abeba, April, 2013. Read more...
Short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water. Read more...
2013 is the third and final year of the WASHTech project. In January, consortium partners gathered in Accra, Ghana to reflect on the project’s progress and map out the immediate future of WASHTech. Research teams in Gahan, Burkina Faso and Uganda have undertaken three rounds of testing and... Read more...
La Facilité africaine de l’Eau (FAE) a octroyé en ce début d’année 2013 un don de 1,1 million d’euros à la commune de Sèmè-Podji, au Bénin, pour la gestion et l’exploitation des boues vidange. Le programme devrait profiter à de nombreux agriculteurs et environ 1 million d’habitants. Read more...
Chaque année, la Fondation met un accent particulier sur un axe important. En 2013, la Fondation privilégiera le financement de projets ayant une approche entrepreneuriale. Read more...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has chosen the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) to lead a new sanitation learning and sharing platform. The Gates Foundation’s Sanitation Science and Technology Programme has over 80 projects. SEI and... Read more...
The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding for new centralised sewerage system into an opportunity. It has revised its plans so that more areas will get connected Read more...
The Water Channel is offering US$ 500 for the best idea for an alternative to the jerry can. The ergonomics of the jerry cans are clearly wrong, says Frank van Steenbergen. Up to 80 million women in Africa have to carry water daily, which can result in a high prevalence of spinal and back pain. Read more...
La technique de l'assainissement écologique, c'est avant tout l'utilisation des fertilisants EcoSan pour la production, tout en assainissant son cadre de vie. Afin de renforcer les capacités des producteurs bénéficiaires des latrines EcoSan UE4 dans la province de kourittenga sur les techniques d'... Read more...
The WASHTech project in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda is in its second year of implementation. The key activities of 2012 are to conduct a technology assessment by using the “Technology Applicability Framework (TAF)” currently under development and to document changes resulting from stakeholder... Read more...
“We will complement each other and create a win-win situation through this collaboration”, said IRC Director Nico Terra when signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Akvo Foundation on 13 March at the 6 th World Water Forum in Marseilles. Read more...
While Egypt has made good progress in urban sanitation, access to wastewater treatment in rural areas lags far behind. Read more...
Nearly half of India's 1.2 billion people have no toilet at home, but more people own a mobile phone, according to the country's latest census data. Only 46.9% of the 246.6 million households have toilets while 49.8% defecate in the open. The remaining 3.2% use public toilets. Read more...
“We will complement each other and create a win-win situation through this collaboration”, said IRC Director Nico Terra when signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Akvo Foundation on 13 March at the 6 th World Water Forum in Marseilles. Read more...
WASHTech has published a literature review focusing on 14 technologies used in Africa in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
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The WASHTech project has published a literature review focusing on 14 technologies used in Africa in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Descriptions for each technology include a selection of interesting case studies, and an explanation as to whether the technology meets technical,... Read more...
Ce guide publié par le “Global Water Initiative (GWI)” explique pas à pas comment construire une latrine familiale à simple fosse. Il a été conçu pour servir d’assistance technique aux familles en Afrique de l’Ouest ayant pris la décision de … Read more...
De 2010 à 2011, WaterAid Burkina a conduit un projet pilot d’adaptation des ouvrages d’assainissement aux besoins des personnes vivant avec un handicap. Cette phase a permis de toucher une dizaine de personnes pour qui la vie a changé. « Cette latrine m’a redonné ma dignité. Je revis » confie avec... Read more...
Malgré la fermeture du « carrefour caca », les désagréments liés aux débordements d’eaux usées ne sont pas terminés. C’est reparti au quartier Biyem-Assi à Yaoundé. Après quelques mois “d’accalmie”, la sortie des eaux purulentes des bouches d’égouts placées sur … Read more...