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The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development ( NABARD ) has approved a INR 1.27 billion (US$ 28 million) project to tackle the drinking water problem in Mahendragarh district of Haryana state. The project will supply water to 64 water-starved villages and 34 dhanies (clusters) at a rate... Read more...
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Visualizing.org and Circle of Blue have launched an international contest, which offers a US$ 5,000 cash prize to creative teams of designers, data experts and visualizers who present new ways to visualise data on urban water and sanitation. The competition closes on 18 March and winners will be... Read more...
IRC' s Southern Africa Regional Programme is building a partnership with the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) Water and Sanitation Focal Point Network (FPN). Following consultations with UCLGA in the IRC offices in the Hague, the IRC Southern Africa Regional Programme... Read more...
Les travaux du Colloque international sur les ressources en eau et le développement durable s’ouvrent demain à Alger et seront clôturés le 23 février en cours. Les participants à cette rencontre débattron sà propos de la gestion, de l’utilisation rationnelle et de la protection de l’eau et de l’... Read more...
Denis ZOUNGRANA est enseignant-chercheur à la Fondation 2iE (Institut International d’Ingénierie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement) localisée à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso. Il est chargé des cours d’approvisionnement en eau potable. Ces cours intègrent aussi bien la gestion de la demande que la... Read more...
In a recent article in Capacity.org on lessons from WASH multi- stakeholder partnerships from 12 countries in Africa, two SNV authors use three IRC materials on sector learning in the six resources they list. Read more...
Jan-Willem Rosenboom joined The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as Senior Programme Officer, Demand-led Sanitation in December 2010. Read more...
Successful multi-stakeholder efforts that have transformed disagreements over water into collaborative partnerships have shaped human history and often contributed to the rise of great civilisations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt and the pre-Columbian cultures of Latin America. This is why, in 2009,... Read more...
Due to his impending retirement, Aat van der Wel has transferred his duties as Managing Director of WASTE to Jacqueline Barendse as of 1 February 2011. Read more...
Paul Post, who worked as a Senior Lecturer in Sanitary Engineering at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands, for more than 30 years, passed away on 1 January 2011 Read more...
Maggie Montgomery joined the Water, Sanitation and Health Unit (WSH) at the World Health Organization (WHO), in November 2010 to coordinate the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Read more...
The International Conference on Water and Wastewater with focus on privatization and benchmarking will be held in Tehran's Milad Tower on April 27 to 28 in cooperation with National Water and Wastewater Engineering Co. (NWWE). Read more...
Senior Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has joined hands with NDTV and Coca Cola to improve sanitation in rural India through the “Support My School” campaign which was launched in India at the end of January 2011. Read more...
The government of Nepal is all set to construct girl-friendly toilets in 5,500 community schools, or almost one in six schools throughout the country to enroll more girl students in the schools. Read more...
Inadequate sanitation costs India US$ 53.8 billion, which is equivalent to 6.4 per cent of India’s GDP in 2006, according to a new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...
This is a follow-up to the entry about the Berlin Water Utility referendum posted on 2nd February 2011. Berlin’s referendum on February 13th has successfully passed a law demanding the disclosure of all contracts documenting the partial privatization of the Berlin Water Works. Despite the low... Read more...
Out of five presentations made on the day dedicated to WASH governance, three were on the West Nile Project: Summary of the process and achievements of the initiative, including presentation of the accountability toolkit Case Study 1: "People's voices, the leader's response", Nebbi... Read more...
A total of 212,502 people across six continents celebrated World Water Monitoring Day (WWMD) 2010, according to the co-ordinators, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). This represents a 73 percent increase in programme participation compared to 2009... Read more...