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UNICEF/WHO - Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation

envhealth@usaid wrote 2 days ago: Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation: Special Focus on Sanitation (pdf, 17MB) is now on the WHO … more »

Tags: Africa, East-Asia Pacific, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Progress on Sanitation, publications, South Asia, Joint Monitoring Programme

United Kingdom - Ultra green NI school in UK first

envhealth@usaid wrote 2 weeks ago: A County Down primary school has become the first building in the UK to be awarded the top grade in … more »

Tags: Sanitary Facilities, Ireland, rainwater, Toilets, united kingdom

Wales - Action over dirty school toilets

envhealth@usaid wrote 3 weeks ago: A review into school toilets across Wales has been ordered by the education minister amid concerns a … more »

Tags: Sanitary Facilities, school sanitation, Wales

USA: One big drug test for L.A.: sewage analysis

Sanna-Leena wrote 3 weeks ago: Experts are examining the outflow in several U.S. and European cities, and the data can be revealing … more »

Tags: North America, Research, Raw sewage, Wastewater analysis

United Kingdom - Pioneering cholera scientist celebrated

envhealth@usaid wrote 1 month ago: Health secretary Alan Johnson is leading a tribute in memory of the pioneering Victorian scientist w … more »

Tags: Sanitation and Health, Cholera, John Snow, Wateraid

Germany - Bring on the Trash, Hamburg tells Naples1 comment

envhealth@usaid wrote 1 month ago: The Italian city of Naples, rocked by a series of garbage crises in recent months, can count on some … more »

Tags: Germany, Solid Wastes, Italy, garbage

UK: Study reveals UK is dirtiest developed country

Sanna-Leena wrote 1 month ago: New research reveals Britain is the dirtiest country in the developed world – despite two thirds o … more »

Tags: Hygiene Promotion, Research

Plan UK - Empowering communities to achieve total sanitation

envhealth@usaid wrote 2 months ago: Plan UK recently launched a handbook on Community Led Total Sanitation to enable communities analyse … more »

Tags: publications, Community-Led Total Sanitation, CLTS, Plan UK

UK - Scandal of school toilets

envhealth@usaid wrote 2 months ago: CHILDREN’S health is under threat from school toilets, according to a report out today that condem … more »

Tags: Sanitary Facilities, Sanitation and Health, school sanitation, united kingdom

Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

dietvorst wrote 2 months ago: Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. Co … more »

Tags: Hygiene Promotion, Sanitation and Health, computer keyboards, Toilet Seats, Health Hazards

UK: Farewell to 'flush and forget'

Sanna-Leena wrote 2 months ago: Posted: 01 May 2008, by Lester R. Brown The Internation Year of Sanitation has called for urgent act … more »

Tags: IYS Themes, Resources

BBC News - Who'd be a toilet attendant?

envhealth@usaid wrote 3 months ago: You visit a fancy bar. You go to the toilet. As you wash your hands, a man passes over some nice pap … more »

Tags: toilet attendants, united kingdom

Ireland - Pupils tap into water project for developing countries

envhealth@usaid wrote 4 months ago: Pupils from a Belfast primary school have been taking part in an innovative project organised by … more »

Tags: Campaigns and Events, Cambodia, Diaries, Ireland

World Water Day focuses on sanitation

envhealth@usaid wrote 4 months ago: With World Water Day being celebrated on 20 March, the International Union for Conservation of Nat … more »

Tags: Campaigns and Events, IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature

Germany - Welthungerhilfe calls for greater sanitation measures

envhealth@usaid wrote 4 months ago: Bonn, 19.03.2008. Welthungerhilfe is calling for greater measures to improve sanitation and hygiene … more »

Tags: Hygiene Promotion, Germany, Welthungerhilfe, NGOs

Kazakhstan - Improving water supply and sanitation

envhealth@usaid wrote 4 months ago: Improving water supply and sanitation in poor countries is essential to achieving the Millennium Dev … more »

Tags: Progress on Sanitation, Kazakhstan, monitoring, Millennium Development Goals, MDGs

United Kingdom - "PAWS" joins Loughborough University

envhealth@usaid wrote 4 months ago: A national organisation that supports water and sanitation projects in developing countries is celeb … more »

Tags: Education & Training, Loughborough University, paws, united kingdom

The International Year of Sanitation 2008: from global movement to local action

dietvorst wrote 4 months ago: The proclamation of 2008 as International Year of Sanitation (IYS) has handed the sanitation sector … more »

Tags: Africa, Campaigns and Events, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Kyrgyzstan

Assoc Prof Dr Håkan Jönsson receives the Swedish Sustainable Sanitation Award

dietvorst wrote 5 months ago: Dr. Håkan Jönsson from the Stockholm Environment Insititute’s (SEI) EcoSanRes Programme rece … more »

Tags: ecological sanitation, Ecosan, prizes


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