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India: Bihar’s 7.57 million houses lack access to toilets

According to the latest data from the PHED (Public Health Engineering Department), there are over 7.57 million households in the Indian state of Bihar which still lack access to adequate sanitation as their houses lack toilets. This is in large due to government failure to meet its targets. Read more […]

September 21, 2012

The way to end Africa’s water crisis

Climate change is to hit Africa the hardest, according to a scientific report, and despite the recent discoveries of reserves of water under Africa’s biggest deserts, approximately 40 per cent of Africans – mostly the rural poor will still not be getting clean water to drink (lack of which kills […]

September 21, 2012

Indonesia needs US$5.9 billion to improve sanitation and access to clean water conditions in the country

According to the Indonesian Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi, Indonesia would collectively need as much as US$5.9 billion to make sufficient infrastructure in the country to achieve water and sanitation access goals. Read more here.

September 21, 2012

Solar oven makes clean drinking water

For those places in the developing world where the poor have access to unclean salty water, it is now possible to get clean and safe water through the design of Gabrielle Diamanti’s solar cooker which uses solar energy to convert salty water to clean drinking water. Read more here.

September 21, 2012

Indonesia: Changing attitudes is the main problem

This post focuses on the difficulty in changing the attitudes of people regarding sanitation and good hygiene practices, which, according to Almud Weitz, WSP’s principal regional team leader, was the key challenge. According to her, Indonesia’s practice of increasing budgetary allocation for provision of more toilets is ineffective and expensive, […]

September 21, 2012

Poor hygiene cost thousands of lives in Asia, says WHO

While poor nutrition, lack of primary healthcare and anaemia had been the primary contributors to the high rate of infections and disease outbreaks in Asia, poor hygiene practices in most of Asia has been found to be one of the catalysts to this scenario, making people weaker. According to a […]

September 21, 2012

Indonesia: Sanitation target may not be achieved

In Indonesia, the sanitation target of MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) may not be achieved as a number of people still live without access to sanitation (nearly half of Indonesians live without access to sanitation and clean water – read here). According to Emah Sudjimah, an official from the Public Works […]

September 21, 2012

Global Access to Clean Drinking Water and Sanitation: US and International Programmes

This report by the Congressional Research Service lists down a comprehensive database of initiatives active worldwide pertaining to the access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation. This report gives an overview of the water and sanitation situation globally and is also informative of the role of US agencies in […]

September 21, 2012

Keeping water clean through evidence-based policy in northern Uganda

A new policy brief issued recently draws attention towards the role of policies in helping achieve the MDGs for clean drinking water in Africa. Published by the Africa Initiative (AI) and Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the policy brief charts out the role of various stakeholders like the government, […]