Water Sanitation Articles & Analysis
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West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) recently launched its “WASH Up” program in Barangay 12, Caloocan City, bringing essential health and hygiene services to the community. ...
– Keep your head/hair above the water. Suction vents or equipment could tangle hair and cause you to drown. ...
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” More than a billion people around the world who are living in slum conditions are facing high risk of COVID-19 transmission due to lack of sanitation and running water for even the most basic hygienic precautions to slow the ...
According to Maggie Montgomery of the World Health Organization’s Office of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), “Fundamentally, hand hygiene is the number one means of ...
In the latest of our series of updates on the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, BIR Ambassadors have provided a summary of the impact of the virus on their respective countries and regions, and on the recycling sector in particular. The pandemic is now well controlled in both mainland China and Taiwan; however, some new cases have emerged lately, mostly involving ...
Kurita Europe decided this year to focus their support on children. Children are the most vulnerable in our society, hence when crisis strikes, they are always among the first to suffer from the consequences and the last to ...
Global Handwashing Day is an international campaign to promote hygiene and good sanitation. The day highlights the importance that simply washing hands with soap is the most effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. ...
The award recognizes Xylem’s work to provide sustainable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (W.A.S.H.) solutions to many of the world’s most vulnerable communities. ...
Menstrual hygiene is a much neglected issue within the water and sanitation sector and there are critical gaps in the body of evidence on menstrual hygiene, including a lack of systematic studies analyzing best practices in Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). ...
In over 70 countries, women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. ...
The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. ...
Among the issues it points out are the sanitation level in schools, indoor and outdoor air pollution, social and economic inequalities leading to different exposures and the overall number of increasing chemicals and pollutants in the environment. It focuses on four specific goals that were established under CEHAPE: Water, Sanitation and ...
“High maternal, infant, and under-five mortality often indicates lack of access to basic services such as clean water and sanitation, immunizations and proper nutrition,” said Ann M. ...
Children are highly susceptible to the diseases caused by a lack of effective sanitation and poor hygiene. More than 5,000 children under the age of five die every day as a result of diarrheal diseases, caused in part by unsafe water, lack of access to basic sanitation facilities and poor hygiene. ...
Rising flood waters across West Africa are intensifying health risks for millions of people, and adding to the impact of the food price crisis. ...