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Assessing the impact of a school-based water treatment, hygiene and sanitation programme on pupil absence in Nyanza Province, Kenya: a cluster-randomized trial Matthew C. Freeman, Leslie E. Greene, et al. Objectives There has been increased attention to access to water, sanitation and... Read more...
Residents of Ogoniland in Rivers State, Nigeria, are demanding compensation from Royal Dutch Shell and clean-up of the oil that has polluted water sources and destroyed their livelihoods. Read more...
Residents of Ogoniland (pop. 832,000), in Rivers State, Nigeria, are demanding compensation and clean-up of the oil that has polluted water sources and destroyed their livelihoods. A UNEP study [1] published in August 2011, concluded that the environmental restoration of Ogoniland could take 25 to... Read more...
Water NGOs are leading the way in promoting new monitoring tools. A Child’s Right has launched an online monitoring system called Proving It and FLOW, a mobile phone tool developed by Water For People, is being widely used in West … Read more...
Organised by the Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement ( CREPA ), this meeting will focus on the need to improve investment in the water and sanitation sector in Africa. About 200 participants are expected from development organisations, bilateral and multi-lateral groups, civil... Read more...
“The story is now published. Your expertise was very helpful in sorting between the claims of the different parties, but I unfortunately didn’t end up quoting you directly due to space constraints,” Jeremy Weber, News Editor Christianity Today magazine wrote on 6 October 2011 in response to a reply... Read more...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one of three women who were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Mrs Sirleaf became Africa’s first female elected head of state in 2005, following the end of Liberia’s 14-year civil war which left … Read more...
Poor urban and rural households [in] Kenya : hygiene improvement practices programme, c-change, AED-Kenya : paper presented at the East Africa... Read more...
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The International Islamic Relief Organization of Saudi Arabia ( IIROSA ) has constructed wells to provide drinking water for residents of several Somali villages facing water scarcity. The project benefitted 50,000 families displaced by the country’s severe drought. The IIROSA also provided 35... Read more...
Workers in many clothing and textile factories in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal are denied proper sanitation facilities, a trade union survey has found. Workers were not supplied with toilet paper and being forced to use pieces of fabric, SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) secretary Chris... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of the “Village Drill” cost around US$ 4,000 (excluding labour) to make in the USA... Read more...
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, together with UCLGA , WIN-SA and AusAid , are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in... Read more...
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC, together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held in... Read more...
The African Water Facility (AWF) has issued a Call for Concept Notes under the urban sanitation theme for the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AWF will fund up to ten projects that promise to address the needs and to sustainably improving the sanitation situation of a densely populated urban... Read more...
Amina Abdalla, a 45-year-old mother of seven, living in Marsabit District (pop. 121,000), Eastern Province, told IRIN/PlusNews about her daily struggle for water. She knows water is essential for hygiene, but there is not enough and it's too expensive. She has to get up at 4 a.m. in the morning to... Read more...