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August 8, 2012
What does clean cooking adoption take?
This post talks about the recent challenges faced in the adoption of cleaner cookstoves as well as their lowered efficacy in reducing IAP (Indoor Air Pollution) in real life settings as compared to lab settings. This particular post takes Bangladesh as testing ground and formulates three separate hypotheses to evaluate […]
August 8, 2012
First sustainable cooking facility opened in Mozambique
CleanStar Mozambique, an integrated food, energy, and forest protection business, has now opened what they call the world’s first sustainable cooking fuel facility near the Port of Beira. The biofuel plant produces ethanol from cassava (or mandioca), in an attempt to replace the country’s dependence on charcoal for energy. Read […]
August 8, 2012
Ghana: World Vision embarks on WASH campaign in schools, communities
World Vision, Ghana has embarked on a number of programmes in the Kassena Nankana West District aimed at improving the Waster, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) campaign and communities in the area. Read more here.
August 8, 2012
China: Significant disparities in disease from unsafe water and sanitation
In a study published in the August edition of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, researchers from Emory University reveal gaps in China’s tremendous progress towards providing safe water and adequate sanitation. Using data queried from multiple infectious disease surveillance systems provide the first estimates of the burden of […]
August 8, 2012
Pakistan: Poor drainage causes flooding in low-lying areas
Poor drainage and sanitation system, and constant rains which started early last weekend have led to low lying areas of Rawalpindi getting flooded. Read more here.
August 8, 2012
Learning from Haiti
The earthquake in Haiti left millions homeless, and one key factor that emerged from on field research is that proper housing is a must. However, proper housing without provisions for disease controlling factors would be no help. This post lists down ways in which affordably housing should be built in […]
August 8, 2012
Indonesia: Low health awareness deadly for children
Poor knowledge of basic healthcare and lack of sanitation are contributing to the high number of deaths among children under the age of five in Indonesia. Among poorer households child deaths are more than three times higher than in richer ones. Read more here.
August 8, 2012
Haiti’s first Sustainable Sanitation Conference, and key takeaways
Haiti’s first ever Sustainable Sanitation conference hosted by SOIL, with support from UNICEF-Haiti was attended by over 150 individuals representing 55 groups, organizations and government ministries. The conference’s key takeaways were that there exists a very real potential for low-cost environmental solutions to Haiti’s sanitation problem. There also exists a need for […]
August 8, 2012
Open defecation in Cameroon
Thousands of residents of Bamenda and other cities in Cameroon don’t have access to toilets because of a lack of public and private facilities. Here, open defecation is prevalent and increases the risk of diseases like cholera and more. According to UN, less than half of Cameroon’s population has access to […]
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