Moroto — In Karamoja Sub-region, the culture of open defecation is a common practice due to lack of toilets. A significant number of locals in the district still use bushes and other public places for easing themselves each time mother nature calls. The lack of proper human waste management, however, …
Moroto — In Karamoja Sub-region, the culture of open defecation is a common practice due to lack of toilets. A significant number of locals in the district still use bushes and other public places for easing themselves each time mother nature calls. The lack of proper human waste management, however, …
The Crisis in the Classroom: The State of the World’s Toilets 2018, reveals the countries where children are struggling most to access a toilet at school and at home, and highlights those that have made good progress. It calls on governments to take urgent action to make decent toilets normal …
No vessel would be granted authorisation to set sail in Ghana’s waters if it is not fitted with internationally acceptable toilet and sewerage facilities. According Captain Paapa Nsuako-Owuredu, a Director at the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), the Maritime Pollution Act forbids it and “for the sake of decency and human …
Pupils carry a placard with an informative message as they matched to the music of a brass band in commemoration of the Global Hand Washing Day at Chinyi Primary School in Moyo district The deputy commandant of Palorinya settlement in northern Uganda, Bashir Mawa, has called on people to avoid …
When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mount Everest in 1953, it was arguably the loneliest place on Earth — an oxygen-deprived desert perched atop an icy, 29,000-foot ladder of death. Over the last 62 years, more than 4,000 climbers have replicated the pair’s feat, with …
WaterAid India (WAI) welcomes the high level political commitments of the Prime Minister on 15 August 2014 of setting 2019 as a goal to achieve universal access to sanitation. In an effort to support this renewed emphasis on ending sanitation crisis in India and also as a committed sector actor, …
A survey conducted by the Indian Medical Academy (IMA), a private association of doctors, across six States in the country, including Delhi, has found that 91 per cent of doctors link acid usage in toilet cleaning to long-term respiratory and other diseases. Ironically, 59 per cent of Delhiites regularly use …
Home turfs of CM and education minister too have poorly managed schools, reveals the provisional report of District Information System for Education. As the world talks about the quality of education, the schools in Maharashtra are struggling for the most basic facilities-drinking water, separate toilets for the girls, playgrounds and …
The fifth South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN-V) concluded here today with the signing of the Kathmandu Declaration. Ministers and head of delegates from the eight participating nations of South Asia signed the Declaration, which includes specific points to accelerate the momentum of sanitation in the region. Addressing the closing …
