Water & Sanitation

Designing and Funding Sustainable Development Projects

February 9, 2010 - 12:15am

Many NGOs and development practitioners will need to increase the impact of their projects if they are to work successfully with community members in adapting to climate change.

Water & Sanitation for Development & Emergencies

November 7, 2009 - 10:23am

The next BushProof Water & Sanitation for Development & Emergencies training will be held from 18 – 30 January 2010 in Singapore, and will be hosted and co-facilitated by the World Toilet College.

NaDCC (sodium dichloroisocyanurate)

September 9, 2009 - 2:18pm

What are the issues around the use of NaDCC to replace HTH(High test hypochlorite) for batch/bulk disinfection of water?

A Practical Tool for Field Based Humanitarian Aid Workers.

June 7, 2009 - 2:27pm

A very comprehensive resource that complements AWN's advice pages - take a look. Culled from the Dev-Zone Development email list.

New International SP jobs posted

May 21, 2009 - 9:51pm

Current Needs with Samaritan's Purse International Relief

Deputy Country Director - Monrovia, Liberia
Program Manager, WATSAN - Canicado, Mozambique
Country Logistics Manager - North Sudan

WikiMapAid.org

April 4, 2009 - 10:14am

WikiMapAid.org allows anyone, anywhere, to start adding humanitarian data to a global map, thus 'the wisdom of crowds' will be able to build a huge humanitarian map, giving credence to the idea that

Training in Water & Sanitation for Development & Emergencies

March 24, 2009 - 6:17pm

BushProof will be running two training courses in Water & Sanitation for Development and Emergencies during the first half of 2009. The dates and locations are:

WSSSRP success in Nigeria and teamwork

January 19, 2009 - 5:12am

In the first days of May 2008 work started in earnest on the EDF financed Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme (WSSSRP) in the States of Kano, Jigawa and Yobe in Northern Nigeria.

CNN features Pump Aid (NGO)

December 17, 2008 - 5:36pm

CNN currently has a small bit in rotation that profiles the work of Pump Aid, which has been working to establish sustainable supplies of clean water and safer sa

Meager Living of Haitians Is Wiped Out by Storms

September 11, 2008 - 6:05am

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 10, 2008

GONAÏVES, Haiti — Their cupboards were virtually bare before the winds started whipping, the skies opened up and this seaside city filled like...

Attempts to Aid Desperate Haitians Hindered by Floodwaters

September 9, 2008 - 1:43am

By Jonathan M. Katz
Associated Press
Friday, September 5, 2008; Page A12

India flood stranded still wait

September 3, 2008 - 2:31am

Up to half a million people are still stranded by flood waters in the Indian state of Bihar, aid workers say.

Millions Are Displaced by Floods in India

August 30, 2008 - 1:54pm

By HEATHER TIMMONS and HARI KUMAR
Published: August 29, 2008

NEW DELHI — Millions of farmers and their families may be displaced for months after severe floods in northern India wiped out...

Septic Tank

June 17, 2008 - 10:12pm

We're trying to design a septic tank that deals with 30 families waste in Peru. We have a design which is a standard type of septic tank but are unsure of how to construct it.

WATSAN Positions

June 10, 2008 - 8:43am

Hello everybody,
I was wondering if any of you know about short term WATSAN jobs in the sector?

Training in Household Level Biosand Water Filtration

May 7, 2008 - 10:42am

Training in Household Biosand Filtration 23-27 June, 2008
Machakos, Kenya

Essential Environmental Health Standards in Health Care

March 7, 2008 - 5:50am

" Health–care associated infections affect between 5 and 30% of patients. The associated burden of disease is extremely high, and is a significant drain on health-sector resources and households.

2008: International Year of...

March 6, 2008 - 1:32pm

In case you didn't know, the General Assembly of the United Nations has designated 2008 as:

International Year of Sanitation
http://esa.un.org/iys/

International Year of Languages
http://www.unesco.org/

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