In the 1940s, the Walt Disney Studios produced a series of educational films on sanitation and hygiene promotion for developing countries. The films, in the Health for the Americas series, were aimed at Latin America. They were commissioned by the now defunct Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), which was later renamed Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA).
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- World Bank – Sanitation, Hygiene and Wastewater Resource Guide
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- World Toilet Organization
- World Water Day ’08
SuSanA- SuSanA News Mail March 2013 online March 19, 2013Dear SuSanA members and partners, This monthly e-mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. This e-mail is sent to 3593 subscribers and contains the following topics: 1. Status quo analysis of SuSanA 2008 to 2012 summary now available online 2. Add your voice to the next 5 years of SuSanA 3. The 4C networking campaign 4. Vide […]
- SuSanA News Mail January 2013 online January 31, 2013This monthly e-mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. This e-mail is sent to 3681 subscribers and contains the following topics: 1. SuSanA's sixth Anniversary 2. Bill Melinda Gates Foundation grants now open for discussion on SuSanA forum. Join in! 3. The world we want! The post-2015 WASH sub-consultation 4. Make pos […]
- SuSanA News Mail November 2012 online November 22, 2012The monthly news mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. For more frequent news updates please visit our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/susana.org (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org) or check the SuSanA discussion forum http://www.forum.susana.org (http://www.forum.susana.org). This monthly e-mail informs you about […]
- FSM2 conference in October 2012 in Durban, South Africa November 16, 2012Read more... (http://www.susana.org/lang-en/conference-and-training-materials/materials-of-conferences/2012-conferences/243-2012-conferences/781-fsm2)
- SuSanA News Mail September 2012 online September 16, 2012The monthly news mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. For more frequent news updates please visit our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/susana.org (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org) or check the SuSanA discussion forum http://www.forum.susana.org (http://www.forum.susana.org). This news mail is sent to 3120 subscr […]
- SuSanA News Mail March 2013 online March 19, 2013
Duncan Mara’s Sanitation Blog- Dr Peter Morgan June 3, 2013Peter Morgan – one of my Champions − has been awarded this year’s Stockholm Water Prize. Really well deserved! Congratulations Peter!
- Good question! January 30, 2013The cover of the 10 January issue of The Economist:
- World Toilet Day November 19, 2012Today is World Toilet Day – see here and also ThePublicToilet.com. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in association with Domestos, has released this report which is well worth reading: Toilets for Health.
- No toilet, no bride! November 16, 2012In the UK Daily Mail of 23 October: No toilet? Then no bride − the Indian government's bizarre new campaign to increase indoor lavatories. Well, that’s one way of promoting sanitation!
- Top three toilets? October 31, 2012From the Gates Foundation website (dated 14 August): ‘Bill Gates Names Winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge’:California Institute of Technology in the United States received the $100,000 first prize for designing a solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity. Loughborough University in the United Kingdom won the $60,000 second place […]
- Agroforestry and arborloos August 8, 2012In a letter to The Economist (28 July 2012) Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, writes that, to reduce hunger and promote food security in the Sahel, agroforestry is the way forward. As he notes, “Trees provide not only ecological resilience but also cash income, energy, environmental services, fodder for animals and nu […]
- Erdos: “World's biggest eco-toilet scheme fails” July 31, 2012“The dry toilets in Inner Mongolia's Daxing eco-community have been quietly replaced after three years of bad smells, health problems and maggots.” Oops! See the full entry in the Guardian Environment Network (30 July 2012).
- Fossas alternas July 30, 2012IRC has on its website a good photo-sequence on how to build a fossa alterna: “This photo story shows you how to construct a fossa alterna, how to empty it and how to process the compost. After 12−18 months of composting it is safe to empty a fossa alterna toilet and use the compost as fertilizer for your garden soil”. Fossas alternas? Read Peter Morgan’s To […]
- Rural sanitation July 27, 2012What Does It Take to Scale Up Rural Sanitation? by Eduardo Perez and published earlier this month by the Water and Sanitation Program is an important document because, as the report’s webpage says, “Today, 2.5 billion people live without access to improved sanitation. … Of those without access to sanitation, 75 percent live in rural areas [emphasis added].” […]
- The 2011 Pumphandle Lecture July 26, 2012Have a look at the John Snow Society’s 2011 Pumphandle Lecture Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion – where there’s not even a pump handle to remove! by Hans Rosling who’s a professor at the Karolinska Institute and also chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. An excellent lecture. Check out the Gapminder videos − you’ll find some pretty stunning ones!Who’s Joh […]
- Dr Peter Morgan June 3, 2013
SuSanA Forum- Re: Potential ideas/tasks/next steps for the WG 12 "WASH & Nutrition" - by: campbelldb June 19, 2013Franck Many thanks for this useful post. May I copy it to the members of a WASH and Nutrition Community of Practice that we are developing? The link is: usaidlearninglab.org/working-group/commu...tion-and-feed-future Best regards, Dan Campbell
- Re: 36th WEDC International Conference, Nakuru, Kenya 1-5 July 2013 - by: kim068 June 19, 2013I am in Nakuru Kenya but will not be attending the conference so if possible i would be glad to meet SuSanA forum members.
- Re: Potential ideas/tasks/next steps for the WG 12 "WASH & Nutrition" - by: franckconcern June 19, 2013Dear All, Concern Worldwide advocacy department is involved in the SUN Movement but my own modest task as a WASH technical adviser is to identify practical ways for our WASH and nutrition programme teams to work towards more integration, the development of cross-sectorial approaches. So far, we are investigating the following possible links between WASH/Nutr […]
- Re: Behaviour change in sanitation and hygiene - 'You thought quitting smoking was hard - try using a toilet' - by: AnanyaGh June 19, 2013Hi All, Super-excited to meet you guys on this forum!! I came across this model on Behaviour Change and thought of sharing with you all. This can be applied to a mass as well as an individual. The examples may not be from the WASH sector, but they can always be applied to any sector where the interventions are planned to change a particular behavior. We had […]
- figures and data on the flow rates and material characteristics of different waste water streams - by: talaghun June 19, 2013Dear Sir or Madam, I am a research assistant and I am searching for current figures and data on the flow rates and material characteristics of different waste water streams (Gray-, yellow-, brown- and black water and other) and the associated energy demand or gain. Also costs of already implemented projects are interesting for me. I'm looking especially […]
- Video Interview with Peter Morgan wins 2013 World Water Prize - by: tmsinnovation June 19, 2013Here is the video interview with Peter! A good watch. Rgds Trevor
- Re: Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? - by: Florian June 19, 2013Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? Günter answers that question himself by saying that it's the whole sanitation system that counts and not the single technology that makes sth. sustainable or not. I would like to expand this even further, by saying it's not the technologies or a system of technologies that matter, […]
- Re: Reply: Using BSFL for pit latrine waste management - by: ianb1981 June 19, 2013Hi Sophia, Sorry for the late reply, I had not seen your initial post until today. I am also based at Elsenburg where Cobus is the Programme Manager. It would be very happy to meet up and discuss the work that goes on here, and your work too. Feel free to contact me whenever is suitable. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScri […]
- Re: Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? - by: gustavo June 19, 2013we are using a combination of up flow anaerobic reactor + constructed wetlands in periurban areas of Cochabamba - Bolivia successfully since 2009 see aguatuya.org/?page_id=30 and related publications. The reactors do 2/3 of the job (BOD remotion) and the CW 1/3... I believe CWs are reliable and very tolerant to fluctuations in organic load.
- Re: RTTC cost calculation: including capital costs? - by: gustavo June 18, 2013Yes this is a very interesting topic! we have some interesting data about small scale (
- Re: Potential ideas/tasks/next steps for the WG 12 "WASH & Nutrition" - by: campbelldb June 19, 2013
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