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January 7, 2013
World Bank organizes global brainstorm to solve sanitation challenges
The first ever global Sanitation Hackathon will be convened in Cape Town, where global sanitation experts and journalists from all over the world would put their heads together to address the sanitation challenges in the developing world today. Read more here. This Hackathon will also be convened in Atlanta, Dakar, […]
January 7, 2013
Kiva’s method of scaling access to clean water
This post delineates how Kiva.org learns from the failed water access projects in the developing countries. According to this post, most projects don’t work because they fail to consult the end beneficiaries as consumers. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Water.org and Zynga bring clean water to developing communities
Water.org has collaborated with Zynga, the online gaming company’s charity arm Zynga.org to scale the access of clean water to the communities in the developing world. Zynga has committed to donating 100 per cent of its profits from sales towards this cause. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
ADB grants US$ 40 million for clean water in Liberia
The African Development Bank has recently granted an amount of US$ 40 million to LWSC (Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation) to connect pipes so as to bear water to cities outside of Monrovia. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
Using a bottom up approach for sanitation in India
The MANTRA Project is a project undertaken in the state of Odisha, India by the NGO Gram Vikas. This project has won the Global +5 Award in Geneva for its sanitation model which has so far catered to 988 villages, including those in hilly areas without electricity. The group helps […]
January 7, 2013
More EC funding for water and sanitation
The European Commission has increased its financial support to the Namibian Water Supply and Sanitation Sector programme from € 18 million to € 36 million. Read more here.
January 7, 2013
India: State schools very poor on sanitation in Maharashtra
According to the details released under the National School Sanitation Initiative, state schools in Maharashtra rank very low. None of the schools that voluntarily signed up for this assessment have made it to the top category, and as many as 33 per cent of them have been categorized as requiring […]
January 7, 2013
5 million Ghanaians among the 1.1 billion who openly defecate in the world
The rural and urban areas of Ghana are rife with the problem of open defecation. According to a 2008 report by Water and Sanitation Monitoring Platform (WSMP), as many as 5 million Ghanaians defecate openly. In cities, it is on the beaches, open drains or dump sites, while in rural […]
January 7, 2013
Sanitation shortage harmful for the health and education of girls in India
Inadequate sanitation facilities for the poorer women in rural areas and urban informal settlements pose a number of serious challenges for them. For households that must practice open defecation, women must get up while it’s still dark in the morning and make their way to nearby sites to defecate, and […]
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