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Ethiopian Herald | Walta Info | Ethiopia - IRC's Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery symposium featured in three articles published in local Ethiopian news media.
LeFaso.Net | Burkina Faso - newsite reports on the opening of IRC's national office in Burkina Faso on 17 September 2012. The article quotes Sabné Koanda, technical advisor for the Ministry of Agriculture and Water and IRC Director Nico Terra. Besides mentioning IRC's current projects in Burkina - WASHCost, WashTech, SaniFaso, WA-WASH - the article also refers to two new activities, starting in 2013, on MUS (Multiple Use Services) and Burkina FLOW. The article includes a photo gallery.
New Agriculturist - story about the "honey-suckers" of Bengaluru, which is based on a case study published by IRC. In Bengaluru in southern India, tanker drivers known as honey-suckers provide a valuable sanitation service, collecting faecal sludge from households not served by the sewerage network. Much of this is used to fertilise crops on surrounding farmland. Formalising this system would enhance the benefits while addressing safety concerns. The New Agriculturist article looks at how these safety concerns could be addressed and health standards enforced. [July 2012 issue]
Al Jazeera - Inside story on water and sanitation, on the results and messages of the recently published report of the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP). IRC's Patrick Moriarty was one of the members on the panel. It was broadcast on 8 March 2012, and live streamed on Al Jazeera's website.
CNN | By Matthew Knight - "The goal of universal access to clean water is far from complete", says IRC Programme Officer Stef Smits on CNN International on World Water Day 2012. "Reaching the last 10% of the population -- those living in remote rural areas and on the fringes of big cities - will become increasingly difficult and expensive,"he explains in "Going with the 'FLOW' towards better sanitation".