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The long-serving Secretary of the UN Water Africa group, Dr. Stephen Maxwell Donkor, has joined UNICEF in Southern Sudan. Dr. Donkor left the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in December 2007 after serving the organization for a decade as a Senior Regional Advisor on Water. Dr... Read more...
Muleba, Tanzania, 17-Jan-08 (UN-HABITAT) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania inaugurated a project to improve access to clean water for the residents of Muleba town, some 600 km north east of Dar es Salaam. Muleba is one of the six towns participating in the first phase of the Lake Victoria Region... Read more...
21 January 2008 (Babacar Bachir Sane, Le Soleil newspaper) Senegal's Social Forum and CONGAD (a council of non-governmental groups supporting economic development) met in Dakar on 17 January 2008 to form a committee to write a Blue Book, an assessment of the country's potable water and sanitation... Read more...
11 January 2008 (Absalom Shigwedha Outapi, The Namibian) Last year's Government order to NamWater that the water utility should open all rural water points that had been closed due to non-payment was based on the fact that water is the most important commodity in a person's life, President... Read more...
11 January 2008 (World Development Movement) City Water Services, a subsidiary of British-based water company Biwater, has lost an international legal case for breaching its contract to deliver water and sanitation services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between 2003 and 2005. The contract with City... Read more...
More than half of the people who live in Bogodogo, one of five metropolitan areas of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, say that the cost of water is not affordable, a survey by WaterAid shows. Nor is this just an opinion – since in fact six out of ten people lack access to decent water services. Read more...
A training workshop held in Poland introduced water specialists, researchers and professionals working on other development issues to 'process documentation', an approach to document and jointly learn from change processes. Read more...
UN-HABITAT and IRC organised the Second Regional Media Workshop on "Urban Water and Sanitation Issues in Asia and the Pacific", in Singapore from 12-14 July 2007. Read more...
The aim of this Emergency Environmental Health Forum is to share field experiences and new research focusing mainly on decreasing the disease burden in emergencies. Rather than focusing on water and sanitation equipment the focus is on say diarrhoea reduction and what combined methods can be used... Read more...
La vie dans le village de Kassab en Egypte a changé avec le remplacement des méthodes traditionnelles de collecte et de stockage de l'eau par un approvisionnement plus hygiénique et plus facile à travers les robinets de la maison. Read more...
Les équipes de EMPOWERS se préparent à produire des films documentaires mettant en évidence les activités du projet dans trois pays. Read more...
The ZimWASH project aims to strengthen the capacities of civil society organizations and local government in providing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services targeting the needs of the rural poor. Read more...
The EMPOWERS teams are preparing for producing documentary films highlighting the project’s activities in the three countries Read more...
Life in Kassab village in Egypt is changing as traditional methods of collecting and storing water are replaced by a cleaner and easier supply to taps at home. The first pilot project of EMPOWERS supports families to connect water pipes to their homes, through loans to spread the cost of connection. Read more...
These factsheets on microfinance for water supply services and sanitation explore and discuss microfinance for the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
Four members of the EMPOWERS team (Peter Laban, Mufleh Abbadi, Sameera Rifai,Hazem Fahmy) spent the first week of June 2005 in the Netherlands to attend with over 100 other people from around the world an international symposium, which was organized by the International Water and Sanitation Centre... Read more...
The Euro-Med Participatory Water Resources Scenarios (EMPOWERS Partnership) has published its first EMPOWERS Insight magazine, sharing progress and experiences in the regional programme working in Egypt, Jordan and West Bank and Gaza. Read more...
EMPOWERS has signed four agreements in Jordan to improve water and sanitation services in the Balqa Governorate, including three with village organisations. Read more...
Scaling up is a term which is becoming familiar in the water and sanitation sectors but, despite or because of this increase in usage, it is apparent that the term means different things to different people. This review examines available literature in order to highlight the conflict between... Read more...
Selection of papers and reports on Water, Households and Rural Livelihoods (WHIRL), a joint Indian, South African and UK project, co-ordinated by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI). Read more...