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Water Utilities East Africa
Event Location:Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaStart Date:10 September 2012End Date:13 September 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The East African region is historically rich in water with healthy rivers, lakes and dams providing a bountiful raw water supply. Lake Victoria alone boasts 68 800 square km and 2750 cubic km of water. But in recent decades varying rainfall patterns and climate change have increased drought stricken areas and floods in others.
GP Africa Water Conference 2012
Event Location:Johannesburg, South AfricaStart Date:12 June 2012End Date:14 June 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The GP Africa Water Conference is a platform, which will facilitate discussions around the issues of developing and managing Africa’s water infrastructure and resources to meet the demands of the future. This solutions-driven gathering will also highlight strategies for securing sustainable water resources through effective demand management and alternative water resource development methods and techniques.
UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water
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This second UN-Water GlAAS report presents data received from 74 developing countries, covering all the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) regions, and from 24 external support agencies (eSAs), representing approximately 90% of official development assistance (oDA) for sanitation and drinking-water.
Key Messages
- Central government continues to be a major source of funding for water and sanitation, although many low- and middle-income countries remain dependent on external aid. external funding for WASh amounted to more than 1% of GDP in seven developing countries.
Regional Water Forum - EXPO APA
Event Location:Bucharest, RomaniaStart Date:11 June 2012End Date:13 June 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:Romanian Water Association will hold between 11 to 13 June 2012 the 14th edition of EXPO APA. Exhibition is available to anyone with involvement in the water: food service operators of water and sanitation equipment and technology providers, researchers, designers and consultants, academics, local and central public authorities, international financial institutions, etc..
2012 Water and Health Conference
Event Location:Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United StatesStart Date:29 October 2012End Date:02 November 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The 2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation, jointly organized by the Institute for the Environment and the Water Institute at UNC, will consider drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and water resources in both the developing and developed worlds with a strong public health emphasis.
Corporatising water: India's draft National Water Policy
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This document published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) warns of the growing perception of water as an economic good and argues that a new consortium of business and international finance is systematically trying to influence how the world’s water will be allocated in future. This consortium seeks to promote policies that will treat water primarily as an economic good to be bought and sold, rather than a fundamental right.
South Africa, the Netherlands
Votes: 0Check out Cape Peninsula University in Cape Town, South Africa. They have a Community Water Supply and Sanitation (CWSS) unit. See www.cput.ac.za/cwss. I've worked with people from there, they're really great. Good development focus.
UNESCO-IHE in The Hague Netherlands also provides education on watsan, I think it's more technical. But am not sure, do not know anyone there (did an online course with them on ecological sanitation though, which was great).
Good luck.
There are many solutions for water and sanitation at the micro and macro level
Votes: 4There are many solutions to the water and sanitation challenges. The key is to bring it to the billions of people who are in need. I believe a substantial impact can be made when corporations begin to invest in this market. Last mile distribution is one barrier that Bhavna Toor writes about here. http://blog.paulpolak.com/?p=763
iDE has some exciting water programs that have helped millions. One new project they've launched in the sanitation sector is doing very well. More can be found at our website http://www.ideorg.org/ADB Water for All: Exploring Asia’s Sanitation Market
Asia’s sanitation market is huge. How big? Consider: 72% of the 2.6 billion people globally who do not use improved sanitation facilities live in Asia; 73% of the 1.1 billion people still practicing open defecation are in Asia; and up to 85% of Asia’s wastewater is discharged untreated, polluting scarce water resources.
Challenges for sanitation and water
Votes: 2Some of the upcoming challenges for water and sanitation in developing countries are:
1) Climate change adaptation and its effects on groundwater potential-it is affecting the quantity of water abstracted and the cost of installing deep boreholes-there is a surge in pricing of materials and the per capita costs are skyrocketing.
We are seeing more dry wells in areas that were previously regarded as high yielding;Water as Basic Human Right Has a Market Price, Says U.N. Chief
As the 193-member General Assembly commemorates the first anniversary of its landmark resolution pronouncing water and sanitation to be a basic human right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon triggered a political controversy last week when he implicitly declared that even human rights have a market price.
"Let us be clear," he asserted, "a right to water and sanitation does not mean that water should be free."
Rather, he said, it means that water and sanitation services should be affordable and available for all, and that member states must do everything in their power to make this happen.
Encephalitis in India, poverty, neglect, disaster and disease, but for how long?
The encephalitis episode aptly indicates that temporary solutions that do not seek to address the root of the problem cannot help and that there is a risk that one problem gets replaced by another, like Japanese encephalitis being followed by viral encephalitis. The time has certainly come to end the long wait and the plight of the poor who continue to be deprived of basic health and sanitation needs in the area.
Read more: http://j.mp/x34kUk
ReplyMumbai Conference Tackles Sanitation
In rural India two people out of three lack basic sanitation facilities. Many women leave their homes at 4 am to find a place in an open field where they can defecate without being seen. Others may have access to latrines but these lack septic tanks or flush mechanisms.
Key factors in implementing sanitation programs in developing countries:
Votes: 2Providing environmentally safe sanitation to millions of people in developing countries is a significant challenge. The task can be quite difficult in developing areas where drinking water and food are the priorities. However, if properly executed a sanitation program can be a success.
Key factors to work with :
1. Successful sanitation programs must be replicated and scaled up irregardless of social class (such as caste system in India).
WSSCC Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene
Event Location:Mumbai, IndiaStart Date:09 October 2012End Date:14 October 2012Link:Official WebsiteDescription:The Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene will be a prime opportunity for WASH professionals from around the world to share ideas on leadership, skills, knowledge and actions that can make a substantial difference in the lives of the 2.6 billion people in the world without safe sanitation and hygiene.
World Water Week Begins With Call For Increased Urban Water Management
AFP (8/22) reported, "World Water Week opened in Stockholm on Monday with calls for greater, more resilient water management in cities to ensure better food and water security in a rapidly urbanising world." In her opening address, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson said, "More than ever we need new technologies and policy solutions to compensate for water shortages hitting a growing number of the world's inhabitants." She noted up to 830 million people lack basic water and sanitation services.
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