The media have been urged to draw the public’s attention to the deteriorating sanitation situation in the country. (…)
The Health Officer, who was addressing the media on the sanitation situation in the country in Koforidua on Wednesday, said the role of journalists was crucial in drawing people’s attention to sanitation issues and called for collective effort in tackling the problem. (…)
Categories: Africa · Campaigns and Events
Tagged: Ghana, Media
The 2008 Stockholm World Water Week has a special focus on sanitation, including over 40 sessions on the topic, to evaluate and drive forward progress made during the International Year of Sanitation. The Water Week organiser, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), has produced a Sanitation, Health and Hygiene theme sheet with an overview of all sanitation-related events.
Full details of all events are available on the World Water Week web site.
Several speakers at the Opening Day Plenary will also focus on sanitation:
In this context, some may question SIWI’s choice of Nestlé as one of the Water Week’s main sponsors and of its Executive Vice President, Mr. José Lopez, as one of the plenary speakers. Nestlé has been criticised for continued violations of the marketing code for the marketing of breastmilk substitutes. “Where water is unsafe a bottle-fed child is up to 25 times more likely to die as a result of diarrhoea than a breastfed child”, says the web site of Baby Milk Action, the secretariat for the International Nestlé Boycott Committee.
The plenary concludes with a High Level Panel on the Role of Sanitation for the MDGs.
Categories: Campaigns and Events · Economic Benefits · Emergency Sanitation · Hygiene Promotion · Progress on Sanitation · Sanitary Facilities · Sanitation and Health · Wastewater Management
Tagged: Stockholm World Water Week
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) has updated its web site.
New features of this website include a “news” section on the start page and a “capacity development area” as an open source database for thematic publications, teaching course material, workshops, conference proceedings and videos.
SuSanA will be holding its 7th meeting in Stockholm, Sweden from August 22nd to 24th 2008 on the weekend after Stockholm World Water Week.
Categories: Campaigns and Events · Education & training
Tagged: Stockholm World Water Week, Sustainable Sanitation Alliance
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO - Health officials in Central Luzon recorded a whooping 238 percent increase in dengue cases in the region compared to the same period last year.
(…) The DOH is calling on local communities to actively participate in environmental sanitation activities like clean up drives.
Categories: Campaigns and Events · East Asia & Pacific · Sanitation and Health
Tagged: climate change, dengue, environmental sanitation, Philippines
August 11, 2008. The St. John’s Toilet festival gets underway today. It’s a week of events organized by Oxfam and dedicated to raising awareness about water and sanitation issues in developing countries. (…)
Categories: Campaigns and Events · Education & training · IYS Themes
Tagged: Canada, Oxfam, Toilet festival
EAST African Breweries (EABL) Foundation has donated sh175m for water and sanitation projects that will benefit over 30,000 people within Kampala and its environs.
The projects involve provision of a 10,000 litre water tank at Kampala Dispensary and Maternity Centre, which will provide clean water to patients and health workers.
EABL Foundation partnered with the Agency for Capacity Building to manage and facilitate the dispensary project worth sh10m. It was commissioned by international artiste, Shaggy and UBL’s head of corporate affairs, Marion Muyobo.
“Water is a key area of our community focus. Without easy access to clean water, physical and economic development is severely affected. That’s why we are delighted to commission this project,” Muyobo said.
Kampala City Council’s Central Division chairman Godfrey Nyakana said: “The area required assistance in water and sanitation facilities. The tank was constructed in a strategic area in town.”
Categories: Africa · Campaigns and Events · Sanitary Facilities
Tagged: EABL Foundation, Uganda
A Snapshot of Sanitation in Africa has ranked Ghana the 48th country in Africa with the worst progress in sanitation.
The report, which assessed 51 African countries, also ranked Ghana the 14th out of 15 countries in West Africa with poor sanitation record. (…)
The country would therefore achieve about 15 per cent reduction by 2015, instead of 53 per cent, should the trend continue. Only 10 per cent has been achieved as at 2006.
Mrs Loretta Roberts, Vice Chairman of the Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation, told newsmen at a press briefing in Accra on Wednesday that the situation was a national crisis, which called for the declaration for a national emergency. (…)
Categories: Africa · Campaigns and Events · Sanitary Facilities
Tagged: Ghana
This Day (Lagos), posted to the web 6 August 2008, Yinka Kolawole, Osogbo
In line with the International Year of Sanitation in the country, the Osun State Government has mapped out strategies to combat factors militating against improved environment sanitation in the state. Speaking with THISDAY exclusively, the State Commissioner of Environment Alhaji Ademola Adio Kazeem noted that to make the strategies work, awareness and proper education would be mounted to assist in eradicating the environmental problem. (…)
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Categories: Africa · Campaigns and Events · Sanitary Facilities
Tagged: Nigeria
THE South Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) in collaboration with the Fiji School of Medicine (FSM) re-launched the Sanitation Park at the school yesterday. The Sanitation Park housed at FSM was developed to help address local sanitation and hygiene issues.
Fiji School of Medicine, Director Research Dr Graham Roberts said that as a community we would need to deal with our own health sanitation in particular our products and wastes. (…)
Categories: Campaigns and Events · East Asia & Pacific · Sanitation and Health
Tagged: Fiji, Fiji School of Medicine, school sanitation
The sanitation situation in the country is deteriorating by the day and this might lead to increase in sanitation related diseases among children and the most vulnerable. It is estimated that an appreciable number of children die annually before the age of five mainly from preventable sanitation-related diseases, said Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment. Speaking at the launch of National Attitudinal Change Initiative Project by Media in Partnership for Development, an NGO, he called on all stakeholders to help maintain the environment so that the country could make progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goal on acquiring good sanitation. (…)
Categories: Africa · Campaigns and Events
Tagged: Ghana
