Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) September 23, 2011 In less than three weeks, hundreds of sanitation and hygiene professionals will gather for the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene (www.wsscc-global-forum.org). The timing could not be more critical: 2.6 billion people still do not have safe sanitation, and the sanitation target is the most […]

Water Journalists Africa September 23, 2011 Up to 72, 254 people have been affected by the ongoing disasters mainly in Eastern, Central and Western Uganda as well as West Nile. The disasters ranging from landslides, floods, hailstorms to fire outbreaks occurred between August 29th, 2011 to date. According to a Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) […]

WJA reporter September 10, 2011 The first Green Standards Week organized by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) closed Friday with a call on international bodies, NGOs, standards bodies, governments, regulators, industry and academia to collaborate more closely on the application and development of information and communication technologies (ICT) standards to help combat climate change. Particular emphasis […]

UN News Center August 1, 2011 The United Nations independent expert on the right to water and sanitation has taken note of Namibia’s success in expanding access to water and urged the Government to make similar efforts to ensure that proper sanitation is available to more people in the southern African country. At the end […]

Tatiana Fedotova July 22, 2011 Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis say civil society groups ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, WSSCC and the End Water Poverty Campaign attending AfricaSan3 in Kigali, Rwanda. The comments come at the end of the conference designed to “put Africa back on track to meet […]

Newton Sibanda July 22, 2011 African governments are increasingly under pressure to ‘walk the talk’ on sanitation. According to a statement from WaterAid- an international nongovernmental organisation whose mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities- grassroots activists in Africa came together at AfricaSan […]

Fredrick Mugira and Frank Rijsberman July 20, 2011 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced more than $41 million in grants to spark new innovations in sanitation. The announcement was made by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President of the foundation’s Global Development program in her keynote address at the Third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation […]

Joyce Chimbi July 19, 2011 The heat is intolerable although it is barely noon, by three O’clock in the afternoon it is usually so hot that people rarely venture outside for fear of been stricken by the much feared heat stroke. This is Mandera, North Eastern Kenya, a hard ship area, a region characterized by […]

Newton Sibanda July 15th 2011 JAPAN has given Zambia 127 billion Kwacha for the repair and expansion of water supply facilities in Ndola, the administrative capital of Zambia’s Copperbelt region. According to a statement released by the Japanese Embassy in Lusaka, “Specifically, the grant will be used to repair the Kafubu water treatment plant and […]

Newton Sibanda July 13, 2011 ZAMBIA’s premier telecommunications company, ZAMTEL has launched a K2billion water project in which 36 boreholes will be sunk across the country. Hans Paulsen, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer says the ‘Water for Life’ programme is aimed at giving disadvantaged communities access to clean water. Paulsen said in Mumbwa, a rural […]