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Sustaining the ODF status in all districts of West Bengal is the need of the hour. Starting with the first ODF district- Nadia, which has already gathered considerable experience in ODF Sustainability, the entire State is now progressing from ODF stage to ODF Sustainability stage. The impact of ODF S including sanitation, safe drinking water and improved hygiene practices goes way beyond just …
Despite clear international law on the human right to water, and widespread recognition of this right, almost one billion people still do not have adequate, affordable and safe access to water and 2.4 billion people do not have access to safe sanitation.
The world’s urban population is increasing and by conservative estimates, rates of growth will continue well into the middle of this …
Children in rural Malawi live in environments heavily contaminated with pathogens that cause diarrhoea. Food hygiene and animal stool management are neglected areas of hygiene in research and programming. Improving food hygiene through behaviour change can significantly reduce diarrhoeal disease and should be integrated into programmes on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and nutrition. …
This framework for action was developed to support the inclusion of nutritional considerations in the design of water operations and to help formulate nutrition-enhancing water policy. Chronic undernutrition early in life can cause cognitive and physical impairments that prevent children from achieving their full potential and have lasting consequences on the human capital that is essential for …
After exploring the potential of SFDs in predicting the impact of sanitation investment projects across the sanitation service chain, a new feature was developed called “trend graphs” or “Scenario SFDs”. It allows visualizing different scenarios and giving an outlook on what the situation could look like in the future and what could be achieved through specific investments or activities. …
The Event Report of 2018’s Emergency Environmental Health Forum, which took place in Berlin, summarises all the presentations, keynote speeches, panel discussions and recent key findings from practice and academia. New research and innovations in the sanitation sector were presented and approaches elaborated that aim at bridging knowledge silos between WASH and other humanitarian sectors. The …
Liquid and solid waste management are huge and unsolved challenges in many developing cities. This
article makes the case that co-processing FS and MSW could help: 1) Tackle the public
and environmental health disasters associated with inadequate urban waste
management; and 2) Improve the operating economics of FS management.
Archived newsletters of the regular electronic news bulletin from the sustainable sanitation projects. These newsletters were sent to subscribed members involved in initiatives and projects in the field of sanitation.
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