Full Coverage: Water/sanitation

29.03.2008 Professor John Anthony Allan from King’s College, London has been awarded the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize for his pioneering concepts of measuring, understanding and communicating water issues. ‘Virtual water’ import via food has had major impacts on global trade policy and research, especially in water-scarce regions.

21.03.2008 BANGKOK, Mar 20 (IPS) - New technology, religion, and the market must be harnessed to secure basic toilet facilities for Asia's rural and urban poor, sanitation experts from the region said here Thursday.

19.03.2008 Known as chars in local dialect, these river islands in Bangladesh are home to over 600,000 poor inhabitants, and are prone to acute erosion, flooding and period submersions. Sanitation and access to clean drinking water is particularly calamitous here, say health experts.

13.03.2008 WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (OneWorld) - Activists working to improve lives and livelihoods around the world gathered in the United States capital Wednesday to launch a new initiative to bring water and sanitation facilities to schools that currently lack them.

07.03.2008 Il CIPSI in vista della 'Giornata Mondiale dell’Acqua' invita alla conferenza stampa “Libera l’Acqua. Riconosci un diritto e portalo a chi non ce l’ha” che si svolgerà lunedì 10 marzo a Roma. Durante la conferenza, oltre a presentare 5 richieste concrete di cambiamento per l’acqua sul pianeta, saranno indicate le iniziative di sensibilizzazione nelle città italiane e estere che si svolgeranno nel mese di marzo per riconoscere il diritto di tutti ad accedere all'acqua potabile ed ai servizi igienico-sanitari. Oggi un 1,6 milioni di persone non hanno accesso all’acqua potabile, 2,6 milioni non beneficiano di alcun servizio sanitario e 1,8 milioni di bambini muoiono ogni anno per malattie connesse alla mancanza di risorse idriche.

07.03.2008 With money and technical assistance from the international community, Bangladesh government has achieved considerable success in installing sanitary latrines throughout the country, leading to significant reduction in diarrhoeal deaths. From the current 85% coverage, it appears that achieving sanitation for all by 2010 is very much possible.

07.03.2008 Köyhimmissä yhteisöissä veden hankkiminen on naisten tehtävä. Jos veden hakemiseen kuluu päivittäin monta tuntia, ei naisille jää aikaa työntekoon tai koulunkäyntiin. Puhtaan veden saatavuuden lisääminen on siten myös naisten valtaistamista.

07.03.2008 Gender inequality and the lack of sanitation and drinking water are woven into a vicious trap. As women and their daughters spend hours collecting water, they cannot go to school, work and earn; while poor sanitation lead to ill health and loss of privacy. WaterAid is working to make women’s voices heard in the politics of water.

04.03.2008 Old habits die hard. Nothing can illustrate this better than the fact that 70% of Pakistan’s rural populace still defecate in the open. The problem of poor sanitation in the country is largely attributed to the lack of awareness and a mindset that refuses to adopt safe toilet habits.

03.03.2008 It was due to the efforts of 79-year-old Achyutha Bhat, that a village in Karnataka in southern India could overcome water scarcity. His passion for digging surangas (man-made tunnels) has not only revived the traditional water harvesting system but also helped local farmers in the region.