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October 6, 2012
EU funds water and sanitation project in Zimbabwe
The EU is funding a four-year long project in a district in Zimbabwe called Chivi, wherein it will be repairing about 350 borewells, and making another 50. The project, called ‘Chiwash’, will also entail the construction of 3400 latrines in the district. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
Ghana: Coca Cola Africa Foundation and USAID provide safe water and access to sanitation to poor communities
Three communities in the greater Accra region in Ghana were the recipients of clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects supported by the Coca Cola Africa Foundation and USAID. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
India: Reinventing toilet talk with Bollywood and cricket
Demand creation is an important aspect of sanitation, when it comes to India, where a large mass of the population takes to open defecation and unhygienic practices. Now, the government has taken the help of WASH United and Quicksand Design Studio to choose an attractive blend of cricket, India’s national […]
October 6, 2012
New, innovative and community based solutions to lack of access of clean drinking water
Set up by the WHI or the WaterHealth International, WaterHealth Centre is a community based water system installation that employs advanced engineering and technology to clean water, which would then be available to community members, who would otherwise not be able to afford clean water. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
New technology to clean up toilets
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Asian Institute of Technology is planning to launch a project wherein researchers in Bangkok will develop a new technology to dispose of wastewater and human excreta and will be affordable for the urban poor in three countries in Asia – Thailand, […]
October 6, 2012
Clean water from thin air, produced by Eole Water
Eole Water’s WMS1000 wind turbine can produce up to 30 kW of electricity while also produce up to 1,200 litres of clean, drinkable water per day. This is suitable for large and remote communities across the world, having a population density of about 5000 people. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
Coca Cola teams up with Segway to provide clean water in underserved communities
Coca Cola aims to provide clean drinking water in disadvantaged rural communities in poor countries where access to clean water has always been an issue and most preventable diseases can be attributed to this cause. Coca Cola will operate water purification systems while working with the inventor of Segway transportation […]
October 6, 2012
India: Poor sanitation kills 1600 children daily
According to recent report, as many as 1600 children under the age of five die daily in India. The causes of these deaths are preventable diseases like diarrhoea, and other water borne and poor-sanitation related diseases. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
Only 14 per cent of all Ghanaians have access to improved sanitation
To attain the sanitation MDG (Millennium Development Goal), Ghana should have at least 54 per cent of its citizens accessing improved sanitation services. However, only as low as 14 per cent of Ghana’s total population has access to improved sanitation. Read more here.
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