Selling water at more than Sh2 per 20 litre jerrycan will attract a heavy punishment including withdrawal of licences, water vendors have been warned. Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company managing director Moses Kinya said water vendors should not take advantage of the shortage in Mombasa and other... Read more...
A government drought monitoring team came face to face with the vagaries of the current drought when it visited starving and thirsty residents of Sosoma village in Mwingi East district. During the Tuesday visit, the team from the National Crisis Centre found residents and their livestock milling... Read more...
The local participants of the two-year project on Improved WASH Governance in West Nile through Local Dialogue identified seven lessons and recommendations for future initiatives. Read more...
Geordie Rae from St.Theresa Point First Nation dumps a slop pail full of sewage in a dump outside his home. Winnipeg Free Press Leaders of First Nations (indigenous peoples) from northern Manitoba want the United Nations to investigate the violations of rights imposed by the lack of water. Manitoba... Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation, who made the observation said this would require behavioural change... Read more...
African project partners from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda supported by four European partners have launched an applied research project to promote more effective investment in new technologies to achieve MDG targets. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies (WASHTech) project started in... Read more...
Traditionally-made big clay pots, locally known as mtsuko, have for ages been used to cool drinking water in Malawian households until they were overtaken by technology and the fridge was introduced. Despite technology, mtsuko are still in use in most homes, especially in semi-urban and rural areas... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="89" caption="Wikileaks logo"][/caption] Leaked diplomatic cables from US embassies published to date by Wikileaks give an indication of US political interests in international water issues. These generally relate to transboundary water disputes and terrorism... Read more...
The Ministry of Education has called for a more coordinated approach in mitigating drought and water shortage in arid and semi arid areas to stop children from dropping out of school. Education secretary George Godia told an inter-ministerial meeting of permanent secretaries that over 70 per cent... Read more...
WaterAid Ghana, a British NGO supporting the Water and Sanitation sector on Friday appealed to the government to release the $350 million it pledged annually towards the Sanitation and Water for all Ghana Compact in 2010. The Policy Manager of WaterAid Ghana, Mr Ibrahim Musah, made the call at... Read more...
Multi-stakeholder learning processes can make a difference: it increases information sharing, raises the priority of water, sanitation and hygiene, there is more community empowerment and results in better performances in the WASH sector. Read more...
The German government will spend spend Sh6.2 billion (US$ 75.3 billion) for the development of water projects in Kenya. This is part of a total package of close to Sh17.5 billion a (US$ 212.5 million) that Germany has allocated for different development projects in Kenya in the next one year. The... Read more...
Updated arrangements for the UN-Water Trust Fund have moved the responsibility for administering the Fund from the rotating UN-Water Chair to a permanent anchoring in the United Nations Office for Project Service (UNOPS). The new arrangements calls for an MoU between each of the 27 UN-Water member... Read more...
Des organisations du Burkina Faso, Ghana et Ouganda soutenues par quatre institutions partenaires européennes viennent de lancer un projet de recherche appliquée pour promouvoir des investissements en technologie plus efficaces. Le projet WASHTech a démarré en janvier 2011, durera trois ans et est... Read more...
The Middle East is likely to plunge into a serious humanitarian crisis due to depletion of water resources, unless remedial measures are introduced urgently, says a new report [1]. The Strategic Foresight Group prepared the report, "The Blue Peace", with support from the Swiss Agency for... Read more...
Le Ministère de l’Agriculture, de l’Hydraulique et des ressources Halieutiques est l’autorité responsable de l’eau potable et l’assainissement au Burkina Faso. Les responsabilités sont divisées entre la Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau et la Direction générale des excréta de l’... Read more...
Au Burkina Faso, WaterAid contribue d'une part à la mise en place de systèmes durables d'alimentation en eau potable et à la construction de latrines, et d'autre part à influencer les politiques gouvernementales pour défendre les intérêts des plus vulnérables. Read more...
Helvetas, première organisation privée suisse de développement, a été fondée en 1955. L’association, apolitique et areligieuse, est aujourd’hui portée par quelque 100 000 membres, donatrices et donateurs, ainsi que par 13 groupes régionaux de bénévoles. Environ 600 collaboratrices et collaborateurs... Read more...
La GIZ, l’agence de coopération allemande au développement est fondée en 2011, en regroupant les expertises du service de développement allemand (DED), de la coopération technique allemande (GTZ) et d’Inwent. Read more...
L'Agence Intergouvernementale Panafricaine EAA - Eau et Assainissement pour l'Afrique est une Institution Inter-Etats regroupant 17 pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre. Son siège est basé à Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso. Read more...
