Contents
Opinion
- Don't let disputes over data get in the way of sanitation and safe water
for billions
International
- WASH United: football superstars join campaign
- The Economist: enough water is not enough - it must also be clean
- Water crisis: activist inspires upcoming Bollywood Sci-Fi film
Quote of the week
- Greta Steyn, South African columnist on sanitation vs football stadiums
Africa South of Sahara
- Africa: self-help sanitation for more than 2 million people
- Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: nearly a quarter of residents lack toilets
- Ghana: raising sanitation and hygiene awareness with football
- Tanzania: rural sanitation campaign launched
Middle East and North Africa
- Egypt: irrigation innovations in the Nile Delta
- Morocco, Oujda: HM The King vists sewerage programme
Asia & Pacific
- Bangladesh, Dhaka: one in five dies from arsenic poisoning
- China: government to spend US$ 8.5 billion on protection of urban
drinking-water sources
- India: sanitation rankings create healthy competition among cities
- India, Pakistan: dealing with the “water mafia”
Latin America and the Caribbean
- Ecuador: lawmakers fail to reach water bill deal
- Panama: Idaan investments in water, sewerage projects
Names
- Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority: winner Stockholm Industry Water Award
2010
- Aamir Khan: Bollywood actor launches school sanitation drive
- Dr. B.P. Agrawal: inventor bags two awards for rainwater harvesting
technology for India
Vacancies
- Water, Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Itinerant Delegate, Terre des hommes,
Switzerland
- Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Water and Sanitation for the Urban
Poor (WSUP), UK
- Senior Programme Officer for the South Asian Region, IRC International
Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands
Research
- Health impact: effect of water quality, hygiene and sanitation in
preventing diarrhoea deaths
New Publications
- UN-water global annual assessment of sanitation and drinking-water
(GLAAS) 2010
- Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India
- Integrated urban water management : humid tropics
- Deep wells and prudence : towards pragmatic action for addressing
groundwater overexploitation in India
- Case study on sustainability of rural sanitation marketing in Vietnam
New on the Net
- 2010 IBNET water tariff database
- Nepal Node for Sustainable Sanitation (NNSS)
- WASHwatch.org: a new advocacy resource for civil society
Post Date : 11 Agustus 2010
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