Indian Cities Face Sanitation Challenge
A recent survey on sanitation in India’s cities reveals the need for dramatic changes.
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A recent survey on sanitation in India’s cities reveals the need for dramatic changes.
The Janadesar village in the arid Marwar Region of India teamed up with the Jal Bahagirathi Foundation on World Toilet Day
World Health Organization and UNICEF has found that the world is on track to surpass the Millennium Development Goal for drinking water access, but will fall short by one billion people for sanitation if current trends continue.
Low cost, low maintenance water treatment system in Kenyan prison proves better for small communities than traditional waste water treatment.
In the sub-Saharan region, 80% of recorded illnesses are water-born diseases, and more than two-thirds of these people don’t have access to basic sanitation. While access to safe drinking water is gaining importance in the political arena, it’s still hard to talk about restrooms and toilets, but today I’m speaking with a man who really does know toilets.
As hundreds of thousands lose their jobs and homes monthly, a new population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) haunts the American landscape. From Sacramento to Seattle, water and sanitation conditions within the resulting camps and shantytowns fall far below par. Between the river and the railway tracks of Sacramento Depression-era history repeats itself, reports the […]
Beleaguered Zimbabweans can look forward to at least $10 million from Australia – a country with a water crisis of its own. Less than a week after President Obama announced a renewed year of U.S. sanctions for Zimbabwe, Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith made public his country’s decision to reinitiate aid. Australia is one […]
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — In a country endowed with natural resources, but fraught with conflict and corruption, President Ernest Bai Koroma is doing what he can to expose the leaks. His foreign minister of foreign affairs points to improper sanitation facilities as a sign of persisting problems, reports the BBC. As 2015, the United Nation’s […]
In an interview with Circle of Blue, freelance journalist and author Rose George explores the politics of sanitation. She discusses sanitation’s crucial but linguistically fickle role in social dialogue. George elaborates on the history of sanitation both above and below the equator, as well as touching on recent successes and failures. Her new book — […]
Safe water equals better health. Members at the recent annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) have taken this equation seriously, announcing their aspirations to improve access to quality water and health care for 8.5 million people across the world. The commitments in sum totaled over $400 million and extend over the next five […]
VIENNA — ITT Corporation’s chief executive officer, Steve Loranger, called for more corporate investment in water sanitation during a panel discussion at the International Water Association’s World Water Congress in Vienna last week. “The impact of poor sanitation on the health of people in some of the world’s developing countries is well-documented and inescapable, but […]