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Uganda: government setting up Hand Pump Mechanics Associations in all rural...
Forming associations for hand pump mechanics in Uganda has enhanced the services they provide and ultimately improved functionality, a new study [1] shows. One such association in Kabong district...
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Zimbabwe, Marange: the pollution fallout from blood diamonds
Critics claim that the Zimbabwean government is failing to stop diamond mines from polluting village water supplies in Marange. The Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe have been an infamous...
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South Africa: new coal-fired power stations will cause water crisis, warns...
Greenpeace warns that new coal-fired power stations and coal mines will lead to a water crisis in South Africa. It calls on the government to quit coal and embrace the country’s renewable energy...
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Ethiopia: rush to achieve to water and sanitation for all by 2015
The Ethiopian government has set itself an ambitious target of achieving 98.5% water coverage and 100 per cent sanitation coverage by 2015. But how realistic is this target? Currently only 54% of...
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Policy review of the Dutch contribution to drinking water and sanitation...
A policy review [1] of Dutch aid during 1990 to 2011 to improve drinking water and sanitation services in developing countries found that while millions of peole have gained access, the impact on...
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Help a local journalist examine the sustainability of a water and sanitation...
Journalist Pacôme Tomètissi wants to revisit the fishing communities of Lake Nokoué in Benin to examine the sustainability of a 5 million euro EU-funded water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) project....
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Sudan, Darfur: Chinese peacekeepers’ well drilling team
Chinese peacekeepers have their own well drilling team to provide water for personnel and campsites of the African Union/UN Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID). It is the only such team employed by the...
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Burkina Faso: WSA partnership director Ms Juanita During dies at 41
Ms Juanita During, the Director of Partnership, Advocacy and Communications at Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, died on 16 August after a brief illness. A Nigerian...
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Zimbabwe: sanitation and human rights advocate Nomathemba Neseni dies
“Sanitation is a passion, not a job,” said Noma Neseni last year at the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India. “I became a human rights commissioner because of toilets. What is gender...
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Africa: EU-funded water and sanitation projects not sustainable say auditors
The majority of the water and sanitation projects funded by the European Union (EU) in six African countries are not sustainable says the EU’s spending watchdog. The European Commission (EC) maintains...
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Rwanda, Kigali: more connections to sewerage system planned
Kigali Eco-Toilet. Photo: Eugene Dusingizumuremyi / SuSanA The capital city of Rwanda has turned a delay in funding into an opportunity to revise its plans so that more areas get connected to a new...
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Mozambique: former water officials arrested for corruption
Mozambique’s anti-corruption agency GCCC has arrested the former director and financial administrator of the central regional office of the government’s Water Supply Investments and Assets Fund...
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Ethiopia: controversial dam puts Nile Basin collaboration on hold
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Photo: Salini Costruttori Egypt fears a significant reduction in its share of water from the Nile when the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is completed in 2015....
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Africa: AMCOW gets US$ 2 million Gates grant to build national sanitation...
The African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) has been awarded a US$ 2 million grant [1] from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help countries build capacities for sanitation policy...
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Burkina Faso: costing rural water service levels
Based on national standards, the 7 boreholes and 3 standpipes in the village of Komsilga, Burkina Faso, are sufficient to supply water to 3,600 people. Since only 1,500 people live in the village, you...
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Burkina Faso creates new ministry for water and sanitation
Mamounata Belem/Ouédraogo. Photo: LeFaso.net Sector stakeholders were delighted when the new government of Burkina Faso announced the creation of the Ministère de l’Eau, des Aménagements Hydrauliques...
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Liberia: extra US$ 450 million needed to rebuild water and sanitation sector
Liberia will need to bridge a US$ 450 million funding gap to achieve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets that it set for itself in 2017. Liberia unveiled a five-year US$ 600 million...
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Sanitation as a business in Malawi – the poor will have to wait
Malawian sanitation entrepreneur Martius using “The Gulper” to empty a pit latrine. Photo: Water for People Providing toilets to the poorest may be “dear to the hearts of many non-profits, aid agencies...
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Counting how many Ethiopians lack decent water and sanitation
Addis Ababa – 8 April 2013. Providing universal access to water and sanitation, the goal of the Ethiopian Government, is a huge effort that is transforming lives and the economy. Behind efforts to...
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Ethiopia: Multiple Use Water Improvements project launched
Robel Lambisso WASH Director (left) and MWA Chair at World Vision, Greig Jansen (right). Photo: newbusinessethiopia.com The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) and its partners have launched the...
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