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Africa's anti-malaria efforts face a new hurdle, drug and insecticide resistance

The problem of drug resistant malaria is growing in Africa. The first case of resistance to the latest drug regimen was recorded in Equatorial Guinea two months ago. What does this mean?

Publication Date: 
24/04/2017
ENCA (South Africa)
Tags:
Health, Malaria, Vector Borne Diseases, Africa, Climate Change, Sanitation
Sanitation

Senegal: Poor sanitation put lives at risk

More than two billion people in the world have no access to proper toilet facilities.

Many lives are lost through diseases as a result

Publication Date: 
20/04/2017
Al Jazeera
Tags:
Sanitation, Health Effects, Senegal, Diseases, Africa
Sanitation

Horizontal and vertical inequalities explaining disparities in access to urban sanitation

Burgeoning urbanisation coupled with policy implementation gaps have resulted in growing disparities in the provision of public infrastructure services in urban areas of India.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2017
Aditya Bhol
Centre for Policy Research
Tags:
Urban Sanitation, Sanitation, India, Water Supply, Drainage
Environment

गुरुद्वारों को एनवायरनमेंट फ्रेंडली बनाएगी DSGPC

दिल्ली सिख गुरुद्वारा प्रबंधक कमिटी (DSGPC) के इतिहास में पहली बार करीब 119 करोड़ रुपये का बजट तैयार किया गया है। इसमें गुरुद्वारों के रेनोवेशन से लेकर लंगर बनाने के तरीके को एनवायरनमेंट फ्रेंडली

Publication Date: 
18/04/2017
Navbharat Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Religious Places, Environmental Security, Solar Energy, Sanitation, LEDs, Environment
Environment

CSR spending on environment, women empowerment declined in 2015-16

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure of corporate India continues to see a bias towards health, poverty, sanitation and education related activities, which take up almost 63 per ce

Publication Date: 
13/04/2017
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Environment, Sanitation, Health, Poverty, Industry
Water Supply

Financing universal water, sanitation and hygiene under the Sustainable Development Goals: UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) 2017 report

This UN GLAAS 2017 report presents an analysis of the most reliable and up-to-date data from 75 countries and 25 external support agencies on issues related to financing universal access to w

Publication Date: 
13/04/2017
World Health Organization
Tags:
Drinking Water, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Water Supply, Finance, India, Global, Water Quality, Health Effects
Sanitation

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding closure of slaughter house, Manglaur, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, 11/04/2017

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Suleman Rana Vs. Municipal Council of Manglaur & Others dated 11/04/2017 regarding closure of slaughter house, Manglaur, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand. Counsel appearing for Municipal Council of Manglaur submits that the slaughter house being run by the Council has already been shut. The Competent Authority has also granted approval for construction of new slaughter house outside the township.

Judgement Date: 
11/04/2017
Tags:
Slaughter House, Haridwar (D), Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), National Green Tribunal (NGT), Court, Municipal Corporations
Sanitation

Question raised in Lok Sabha on ODF Villages, 06/04/2017

Question raised in Lok Sabha on ODF Villages, 06/04/2017. State/UT-wise, households having access to toilets during last 3 years as per Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) is at Annexure-1.

Publication Date: 
06/04/2017
Lok Sabha
Tags:
Open Defecation, India, Rural Sanitation, Statistics, Parliament
Water Supply

Realising the human right to water, sanitation and hygiene: lessons from Southern Africa

This briefing note details a human rights-based approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene and lessons from southern Africa.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2017
WaterAid
Tags:
Drinking Water, Sanitation, Human Rights, South Africa
Sanitation

Bio-sanitation toilets launched in Kenya to eliminate pit latrines

NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Bio-sanitation toilets have been launched in Kenya in order to eliminate pit latrines which have been blamed for contaminating ground water, the inventor said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
05/04/2017
Coast Week (Kenya)
Tags:
Sanitation, Toilets, Kenya, Groundwater Pollution, Africa

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