Mysterious Moen-Jo-Daro setlement of Harrapa civilizations ( Indus Valley – Pakistan) the cleanest city of Ancient History (2600-1900 BC) ?! How irony passes through history..in 2015 there are a plenty of localities with rudimentary sanitation services across the globe. Are you aware about other examples?
Book Chapter: Saifullah Khan- Sanitation and wastewater technologies in Harappa/Indus valley civilization (ca. 2600-1900 BC)
Provision of adequate sanitation facility is a human right but its very unfortunate that more than 1 billion of global population have no access to it.The situation is worst in south Asian region where half of the population have no access to proper toilet facilities and in rural areas people do not have latrine at home and they are forced to defecate in open . Govt have distributed toilet structures and designed public latrines but the latrine structures are poor and there is no such system for their maintenance.
On Thursday 30th October, 10-11.30am (GMT), the CLTS Knowledge Hub together with Hazel Jones (WEDC) and Jane Wilbur (WaterAid) will be hosting a webinar on Community-Led Total Sanitation.
Hello all, this is a well know WASH cost tool by IRC, you must have heard about it. If not see the tool here http://www.ircwash.org/washcost Have any one used it? whats your feedback?
Dear friends we we talk about water and sanitation daily but some time we tend to forget the facts and figures associated with it. Here is a beautiful fact list for the sanitation problem world wide.
1. 40% of the World Lacks a Toilet
Roughly 2.65 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation facilities. That’s one in three people who don’t have a toilet.
Here's the follow-up to my post a couple of weeks ago about the state of water coverage in Colombia. This time I focus on sanitation. Is the state of sanitation coverage as good as it was for water? You'll have to read to find out...
This publication is intended to share insights and lessons from the Compact Sanitary Unit implementation project in Ecuador as well as findings about the Rural and Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Program (PRAGUAS).
Six Indian innovators were selected today to contribute to the development of sanitation solutions as part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge: India. From a pool of 108 applications, these projects were chosen following an extensive, rigorous selection process by an expert committee.
Know-how: Sanitation
