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Call for 100pc sanitation coverage in Gaibandha, Bangladesh

Gaibandha, Bangladesh, Apr 25, 2013: Speakers at a function on Monday stressed the need for achieving 100 percent sanitation coverage to ensure a better and disease- free healthy society in Gaibandha...

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Only 30% in Pakistan drink safe water

Karachi, April 30, 2013: Civil Society activists have demanded government to ensure safe drinking water accessibility for all and also asked political parties what their election manifestos and...

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Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP) Wins UN Award

Bangladesh, May 13, 2013: Development Organisation of the Rural Poor (DORP), a non-government organization, won the 'Water for Life' award from the UN World Water Assessment Programme Unit for its...

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Nepal-India Everest team collects 2,000 kg garbage

Kathmandu, May 20, 2013: The joint Mount Everest Expedition and Sanitation Campaign of army personnel from Nepal and India has collected over 2,000 kg of garbage from around base camp and the routes to...

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RTE is absolutely foolish policy: Goa CM Manohar Parrikar

Panaji, May 27, 2013: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday called the Right to Education (RTE) Act as Union Minister Kapil Sibal's "absolutely foolish policy"."RTE Act is Kapil Sibal's...

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UNICEF gets N9b for water, other projects in Nigeria

Nigeria, May 28, 2013: The European Union (EU) and United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) have signed a five-year contribution agreement for a Rural Water and Sanitation Project in Plateau, Ekiti and...

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NGO to launch grassroots sanitation, hygiene programme

Nigeria, June 17, 2013: Environmental Safety Corps (ESCORP), a non government organisation (NGO), says it will soon launch a sanitation programme tagged: “Maessah” to revive good hygiene practices at...

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Africa Court Jails Man for Defecating on School Compound

Africa, June 13, 2013: The Sanitation and Motor Court at the Ablekuma Central Sub-Metro has jailed Edward Bruce nine months in hard labour for defecating on a school compound at Mataheko in Accra.The...

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Coy Mathis: Transgender girl barred from toilet wins case

Colorado, June 24, 2013: A Colorado primary school discriminated against a six-year-old transgender girl by barring her from using the girls' toilets, a civil rights panel has said.The panel in the US...

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ADB for improved sanitation system in coastal towns

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36% Sailkupa people in Bangladesh yet to come under sanitation system

Bangladesh, July 5, 2013: Thirty six percent people of Sailkupa upazila in Jhenidah could not be covered with proper sanitation system, said the experts in a gathering with the women participants...

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Nagarkot near Kathmandu declared ODF Zone

Kathmandu, July 5, 2013: Local authorities on Friday declared Nagarkot VDC in Bhaktapur district, which is located around 32 kilometers north-east from the Kathmandu valley, totally free from open...

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Sanitation facilities: 800 public toilets to be built across Karachi city

Karachi, July 10, 2013: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) plans to construct 800 public toilets at 200 locations across the city, said the metropolitan commissioner, Matanat Ali Khan, at the...

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Karachi: Report sought on sewage treatment plants

Karachi, July 9, 2013: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has stressed the need for expediting the work on projects of generating electricity from solid waste and sewage treatment plants so that...

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Kapan in Kathmandu, Nepal declared open defecation free

Kathmandu, July 15, 2013: read more

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Total Sewerage Coverage for Dhaka city planned

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Using cellphones to improve water, sanitation

Karachi, June 2013: Accordinto the ‘evidence paper’ of the UK’s Department for International Development (May 2013), the WHO estimates that 2.4 million deaths and seven per cent of the total disease...

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3.25-billion project for Birgunj sub-metropolis in Nepal, Kathmandu

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Water supply and sanitation projects for resettled community in Sri Lanka

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70% of $10mln Malala Girls' Education Fund to be used in Pakistan

Islamabad, July 23, 2013: read more

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