Former Information Manager
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After 41 years of sharing his professional experience in WASH information management and information services at IRC, Cor has retired. Since 2019 he was IRC's Information Manager, specialising in MS Teams. He was editor of IRC's newsletter Amplify and was co-founder and co-editor of the IRC / USAID Sanitation Updates blog, which ran from 2008-2021. From 2016-2020 he was IRC's co-representative in the Board of the online Q&A forum KnowledgePoint.
In 2020, he organised the first ever WASH sector webinar on decolonisation. Next to decolonising WASH knowledge, he has a special interest in transparency and the right to information and ethical funding. Cor has been on short missions for IRC to India, Nepal and Uganda.
On 29 July 2010, the General Assembly of the United Nations recognised, in a proposed resolution by Bolivia and adopted by 122 votes with 41 abstentions, 'the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right that is essential for the full enjoyment of life and all human rights... Read more...
A US bottled water exporter that had enjoyed a de facto tax free status in the Pacific island nation of Fiji since 1995, has finally been forced to pay up. Once dubbed as "bottled insanity" by environmentalists, FIJI Water has been linked to tax evasion, political intrigue, and greenwashing. Water... Read more...
The finance minister's claim that 90.6 percent families in Bangladesh are using sanitary latrines has been dismissed by experts. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey Report 2010) data shows the sanitary latrine coverage in Bangladesh is only 51.5 per cent (which is... Read more...
The 64th World Health Assembly (WHA) has adopted a resolution on drinking-water, sanitation and health, and two other related resolutions on cholera and Guinea worm (dracunculiasis). [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Yael Velleman at the WHA in Geneva with a copy of the... Read more...
Former heads of government have agreed to establish a new panel to help fill a "serious void in leadership related to global water issues". Saying that "international water leadership is virtually nonexistent," the retired leaders apparently have little faith in existing international organisations... Read more...
Two separate pollution incidents have hit the drinking water supply of the Chinese city of Hangzhou (pop. 9 million), Zhejiang Province, in the beginning of June 2011. In the first incident, the drinking water supply of more than half a million people was cut off when phenol (carbolic acid) spilled... Read more...
The Rotary Club will spend 5.5 million Rupees (US$ 121,000) to provide clean drinking water and proper sanitation in schools in Mussoorie, said Rotary District 3080 Governor Madhukar Malhotra. DG Malhotra was attending a programme on the Sanitation and Drinking Water Project for schools held at the... Read more...
The technology and innovation-focused search for a silver bullet for the WASH sector by the Gates Foundation is flawed, argues the director of a water NGO. Improving sanitation for people in developing countries requires person-to-person education within each community, writes Water 1st... Read more...
This web site contains guidance materials on gender in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects drawn from two Pacific case studies of World Vision projects in Vanuatu and Fiji. Read more...
The outputs of the the project "Researching Gender Aspects of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Projects with Pacific Communities" (2009-2011) have been published on genderinpacificwash.info The study focuses on two Pacific case studies that incorporate gender strategies and support community decision... Read more...
The contested public-private contract with the water supply company, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited in Ghana, has not been extended. The company, which took over the operation of Ghana’s urban water supply in 2006, was supposed to improve the accountability of water delivery over the last five years... Read more...
The United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur said it will work with Sudan’s government to try to raise US$ 1.43 billion for water projects in the western Sudanese region at a donors conference in June. “The scarcity of water and lack of water management in Darfur, compounded with a fast-... Read more...
A reusable self-decontaminating sanitary napkin, a children’s latrine training mat and a latrine using urine to flush instead of water are among 26 sanitation technology projects that have been awarded Gates Foundation grants. Read more...
As Saudi Arabia faces an increasing demand for water to support its rapid population and economic growth, General Electric (GE) held the Saudi "Used to Useful" Water Reuse Summit in April 2011 to explore water reuse solutions to support water security in the Kingdom and the region. Saudi Arabia's... Read more...
Jordan is considering “unconventional” and “environmentally unfriendly” plans to solve its water shortage, experts say. These plans include tapping into the ancient southern Disi aquifer , despite concerns about high levels of radiation, and the controversial Two Seas Canal running from the Red Sea... Read more...
More so than any other region, countries in the Middle East rely heavily on technology to guarantee their water supply. Elisabeth Fischer profiles some innovative large and small-scale projects in Abu Dhabi and Yemen designed to overcome the severe water problems in the region in water-technology... Read more...
Rumours that the huge underground pipes of the Great Man-Made River Project (GMRP) are hiding Libyan tanks and missiles, have re-emerged during the current conflict. Back in in 1997, the New York Times reported that the US$ 33 billion project, which provides 6.5 million cubic metres a day to the... Read more...
The Ministry of Infrastructure’s Permanent Secretary Marie Claire Mukasine announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage in Rwanda by 2012. The government hopes to realise full coverage through a total sanitation campaign and community-based approaches. Read more...
New plan calls for an investment of Euro 10.47 billion in the coming decade to develop water production and supply systems to deal with the dwindling precipitation and the rise in the salinity of the groundwater which considerably exceeds previous estimates, according to a master plan for water now... Read more...
In the years ahead of us at least US $100 billion will be spend worldwide for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Transparency International (TI) warns us that efforts to combat climate change risk to be undermined by corruption and mismanagement. This year, TI’s annual Global Corruption... Read more...
