Readers’ Opinion
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Why rural households in Assam are not interested to have sanitary latrines
31 Oct 08
I am Dr. Binoy Das regular reader of IRC’s Source Bulletin since its inception. My work in sanitation promotion started with UNDP Global Project in 1980, with UNICEF from 1987. I see five major reasons why rural households in Assam are not interested to have sanitary latrines by spending their own money. If it is given free, households may accept it but there is no guarantee that open defecation would end.
International action to strengthen right to water and sanitation guarantees
24 Apr 08
Opinion by Claude Cahn, Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
Capture synergies between the Millennium Development Goals on Hunger and on Water and Sanitation
24 Oct 06
Interdisciplinary field research aimed at developing a comprehensive knowledge base on the linkages between water, sanitation and hygiene on the one hand and nutrition and food security on the other is greatly needed, argues Robert Lenton.
Can the Millennium Development Goal for sanitation be achieved?
25 Apr 06
Huub Gijsen, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft argues that the sanitation MDG lags behind and that a specific programme for addressing wastewater is missing.
