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Billions risk being without access to water and sanitation services by 2030  Billions risk being without access to water and sanitation services by 2030  Latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNCEF) reveals that three in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.  “Handwashing is one of the most effective ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseas...

during the pandemic and consider how the grant funding supported them. Water and sanitation providers were already in a precarious financial position before the pandemic. Based on IBNET data, only 35 per cent of water providers globally are generating sufficient revenue to cover operational and maintenance costs. Achieving financial sustainability is also a key challenge for sanitation providers looking to deliver services to the 2.5 billion people that still lack access to improved sanitation...

Tanzania schools doing well in drinking water,sanitation and hygiene 22 Tanzania schools doing well in drinking water,sanitation and hygiene ​​​​​​​AT LEAST more than half of schools in the country have managed to drink clean and safe water, improved toilet facilities and hand washing facilities, a new report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had shown. Dr Albina Chuwa. The 2018 School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (SWASH) Assessment is the first comprehensive, n...

How 3D printed Graphene Aerogels can be used for Water Treatment This illustration depicts, at the left, a 3D printer printing the hexagonal-shaped graphene aerogel sheet. At the right, the aerogel (now black) filters dirty water. Credit: Environmental Science: Nano Access to clean drinking water is a major problem for as much as a third of the worlds population. Now, a new combination of graphene, aerogels and 3D printing could provide a solution.  With an increasing global population, the ne...

Uniting a global WASH response with an evidence-based approach: the WASH Severity Classification Format When the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) was originally created in 2004, the impetus came from the humanitarian community’s need to understand food security crises faster and with greater precision, so as to shape a more effective response. The IPC has since then become a landmark in the fight against food insecurity. Decades later however, a similar approach- where vast...

FORMER legislator and Monetary Policy Committee member Eddie Cross has made sensational claims that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Safe water saves lives and restores childhoods: Children have to walk 40 minutes to reach the water Format By: Ajmal Sherzai & Nahida Ahmadi My mother is sick,” says 12-year old Fariba, from Khair Abad village, in the Nawmish district of Daikundi province in central Afghanistan. “So, I have to fetch water four or five times each day. The river I go to is four kilometers away from my home.” Around 1,100 children, like Fariba, live there; they are deprived of many of their basic rights, inc...

Afghanistan National Guidelines for WASH in Emergency Format Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services Water supply services in Afghanistan are limited and access to improved water infrastructures is among the lowest in the world. According to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of WHO-UNICEF 2015, the proportion of the population using an improved water source is 55%, with important differences between rural (47%) and urban areas (78%). With only 32% of the population having acc...