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December 13, 2008

sanitäre Grundversorgung im Bundestag

Der Deutsche Bundestag fordert die Bundesregierung auf,

2. dafür zu werben, dass in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit zukünftige Trinkwasserprojekte immer eine Sanitärkomponente enthalten;

4. dazu beizutragen, dass die lokale Bevölkerung in Angelegenheiten der sanitären Grundversorung und Trinkwasserversorgung angemessen informiert und beteiligt wird;
5. eine Strategie vorzulegen, wie die Kompetenzen deutscher Unternehmen…….im Bereich der Sanitärversorung stärker genutzt werden können….

14. den [...]

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June 25, 2008

Knowledge Centres for sanitation and waste management

Just a short note on an interesting e-mail I’ve received today on the ecosanres Yahoo!Group on ecological sanitation: The (dutch NGO) WASTE “on behalf of the Programme Board of the INTEGRATED SUPPORT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (ISSUE) programme” puts out an open tender for Knowledge Centres with tasks related to sanitation and waste mangement.
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May 30, 2008

Does this make you feel better?

A animated flash advertisement when I logged off my webmailer led me to the page of Volvic fuer UNICEF, an initiative between (the water brand) Volvic and UNICEF that provides a simple marketing idea:
Buy 1 litre of Volvic naturelle water and they (Volvic) will pay the equivalent of 10 litres in form of financial aid [...]

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March 16, 2008

bribes

source: Understanding Small Scale Providers of Sanitation Services: A Case Study of Kibera, WSP, Nairobi, Kenya.
Found this in a very nice & detailed & straight forward + honest field note on SSPSS in Kibera, published by the WSP.

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March 3, 2008

maji roach

I just registered saniblog.org with the Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and realized once again how great this visual campaign is:

Check out their posters and postcards on water & sanitation issues! In fact, we’ve put these posters up on the wall next to the coffee machine @ work and ppl really react to [...]

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January 24, 2008

Water is a gift

Sorry for posting yet another video (pole to those who aren’t on broadband), but we just got this forwarded from a colleague at work and I think it’s a nice video to share - especially since I really dig the Arabic…
YouTube direct

“Awareness video on water scarcity with nice animations and effects produced for Yemen and [...]

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November 19, 2007

Today is World Toilet Day

…and I will update this entry once I’ve figured out what to write for my new side project:
http://saniblog.org - the world’s first blog on sanitation!
Karibuni! :-)
Update: Hello World! …seriously, there’s nothing much to add. I really hope to move any future content on sanitation on this external blog and will also try to attract other [...]

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August 10, 2007

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance & Akvo & Web2forDev

I’ll be in Stockholm over the weekend to attend the 3rd meeting of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (@ Stockholm Environment Institute, SEI). Plans actually included to attend the upcoming World Water Week in Stockholm and, more importantly, having a few interesting conversations during those evening sessions, but…[still searching for an excuse to explain why my [...]

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