Features
Improving district level leadership on sanitation and hygiene in Uganda
... An additional constraint is the lack of manpower at district and subdistrict level to effectively implement and monitor sanitation and hygiene programmes. As a result, outreach to households, sanitation awareness raising and hygiene monitoring – vital for achieving the MDGs – are neglected.
The Economist’s take on the water sector
Water does not feature often in The Economist, the world’s leading financial and political magazine. So it is perhaps a sign of the times that the World Water Forum in Istanbul triggered a leader as well as a long article in their April 11 edition. The headline on their leading (opinion) article shows their take on the water sector. “Water rights: Awash in waste. Tradable usage rights are a good tool for tackling the world’s water problems”.
Oyibi water: Just one pesewa more
... when the price of an 18 litre bucket of water rose by one pesewa – from 2 to 3 pesewas - in the Oyibi area of Ghana (about 50 kilometres from Accra) at the start of this year it had an impact.
GWA News
Bridging gender divides in water at the Fifth World Water Forum
More than 80 members of the Gender and Water Alliance from across the globe joined up in Istanbul in March this year, at the 5th World Water Forum, in an effort to mainstream gender equity issues in the discussions and emerging recommendations.
Cartoon booklets on gender and water speak to people all over the world
“To be part of this struggle to inform the world of the need to take care of water, including the issue of gender, is very important. For me, therefore it was an honour to be commissioned to do this work to prepare these booklets that will be distributed around the world,” says Ziraldo Alves Pinto. He is the Brazilian artist who the Gender and Water Alliance approached to develop four booklets about gender and water, specifically targeted at school children and illiterate people
Sad death of an honoured member
Just after our return from the World Water Forum in Istanbul the Gender and Water Alliance was informed of the death of our very honoured member, Dr. Fadia Daibes Murad of Palestine, killed on her way home from work in a car crash, in which seven other people were injured.
From the GWA Secretariat
The broad theme of Gender and Water includes various subjects which become ever more important. They include: water and the food crisis, climate change and conflict situations and the lack of women water professionals at all levels.
WSSCC News
Sanitation perspectives in the new Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has seen its ups and downs in terms of WASH services, and the newly signed Government of National Unity presents opportunities for the improvements in WASH. While we look towards the rehabilitation, development and expansion of water and sanitation infrastructure, there is a concern that social values, principles, standards and ethics will not have such an easy or quick fix. Services declined over a decade and an entire generation knows nothing but water shortages, unmanaged waste, and burst pipes. It is this generation whose WASH benchmark is skewed and who in the future will require much more than a quick infrastructure fix.
New knowledge product on key WASH issues
WSSCC has launched a new knowledge product line entitled WSSCC Reference Notes.
Honouring the best in water supply, sanitation and hygiene journalism
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the Stockholm International Water Institute recognise the crucial role of the media in attaining improved water supply, sanitation and hygiene. They welcome entries for the third edition of the WASH Media Awards competition.
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About one third of the Source Bulletin readers, are members of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC). Membership is free.
IRC News
Ghana and Uganda to pilot new model to improve rural water services
The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has launched a six-year initiative to improve sustainability of rural water supply for some of the world’s poorest people, by reshaping the way that these services are provided.
Communication and media work for Water for Asian Cities
IRC has completed various outputs on regional communication and media work to generate public awareness for the Water for Asian Cities Programme (WAC), which is being implemented by UN-HABITAT since 2003 with local partners in India, the People’s Republic of China, Nepal, Lao PDR and Vietnam.
World Water Forum: useful but divided
IRC’s Director Ben Lamoree mentioned in an interview with Source that he found the World Water Forum group session on transparency and anticorruption in the water sector one of the most interesting. But with two alternative forums going in Istanbul at the same time there was also a lot of division.
