Across the globe one billion people lack clean drinking water and 2.6 billion live without access to hygienic sanitation facilities
Across the globe one billion people lack clean drinking water and 2.6 billion live without access to hygienic sanitation facilities. Each day, an average of 5,000 children die of preventable water and sanitation related diseases, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
STORIES
Aid cash must double to tackle sanitation crisis - WaterAid - AlertNet
Toilet-talk taboo hinders sanitation crisis fight - expert - AlertNet
BLOGS
MULTIMEDIA - Why talk about toilets? Guy Collender, SHARE
Commitment to everyone: My wish for World Toilet Day - Ned Breslin, Water For People
Investment in sanitation is essential - Tom Slaymaker, WaterAid
Building a latrine in timelapse - Oxfam
Stop flushing your rights away - U.N. expert
Could you live without a toilet? - LabourList
OTHER LINKS
- From Sanitation and Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE):
Eyewitness Bangladesh: Sanitation and hygiene, challenges & solutions - Guy Collender, SHARE
Video of sanitation and hygiene challenges in Bangladesh - SHARE
- From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation:
Infographic on reinventing the toilet
Fact Sheet on newest grants (including one titled Sanitation as a Business)
Water and health conference: Frank Rijsberman
- Thomson Reuters Foundation at World Water Week 2011 - Stockholm:
Collaboration key tool in promoting transparency in water industry - TrustLaw
GRUBS grabs socio-economic and sanitation data for better water transparency - TrustLaw
Stockholm meeting to stir debate over global water crisis - AlertNet
Urban planning key to solve sanitation problems - Joan Clos, U.N. Habitat - AlertNet
Fixing urban water problems requires joint effort - WaterAid chief executive - AlertNet
Kenya fund aims to get 1.4 million people sanitation by 2013 - AlertNet
Kenya pro-poor web data empowers for better water access - AlertNet
Sustainable sanitation supplants chemical fertiliser with human waste - AlertNet
U.N. World Water Development Report: repositioning views on water - AlertNet
WaterAid to push for universality, food security at World Water Week - AlertNet
INTERVIEW: UNDP progress on post-conflict Liberia water, sanitation project - AlertNet
Ganges Basin findings warrant further investigation - expert - AlertNet
Building trust improves Kenyan water services - TrustLaw
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