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...
View ArticleOnly 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...
View ArticleDevelopment 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...
View ArticleNepal-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...
View ArticleRTE 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...
View ArticleUNICEF 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...
View ArticleNGO 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...
View ArticleAfrica 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...
View ArticleCoy 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...
View ArticleADB for improved sanitation system in coastal towns
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.read more
View Article36% 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...
View ArticleNagarkot 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...
View ArticleSanitation 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...
View ArticleKarachi: 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...
View ArticleKapan in Kathmandu, Nepal declared open defecation free
Kathmandu, July 15, 2013: read more
View ArticleUsing 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...
View Article70% of $10mln Malala Girls' Education Fund to be used in Pakistan
Islamabad, July 23, 2013: read more
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....