Latest Sustainable sanitation Stories

Bringing attention to China's environmental health and promoting toilet culture SHANGHAI, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The China Clean Expo (CCE) 2013 is to be held on April 1-3, 2013, at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. The organizer, UBM Sinoexpo, is teaming up with the World Toilet Organization (WTO) to create an onsite forum, the World Toilet Form, with the aim of attracting people's attention to China's public health and promoting toilet culture...

It may be the 21st century, with all its technological marvels, but 6 out of every 10 people on Earth still do not have access to flush toilets or other adequate sanitation that protects the user and the surrounding community from harmful health effects, a new study has found. The research, published in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, says the number of people without access to improved sanitation is almost double the previous estimate. Jamie Bartram and colleagues...

STOCKHOLM, August 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- First and Second Prize Winners Awarded for Safe Water and Sanitation Solutions in the Developing World Reed Elsevier [http://www.reedelsevier.com ], a world leading provider of professional information solutions, today announced the winners of the Reed Elsevier Environmental Challenge which awards innovative solutions to improve sustainable access to safe water and sanitation. The $50,000...

People in ancient Rome 2,000 years ago had better access to clean water and sanitation that keeps disease-causing human excrement out of contact with people than many residents of the 21st century, a scientist said here today. Women in developing countries could play a major role in remedying the situation, if given the chance, she added. Jeanette A. Brown, Ph.D., spoke on the global crisis in availability of clean water and basic sanitation like toilets and sewage disposal at the 244th...

NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- WaterAid has received a grant of up to $6.3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims to enhance the lives of thousands of poor people in Nigeria through improvements to sanitation. Across the globe, 2,000 children die every day from diarrheal diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. In sub-Saharan Africa, 223 million people have no toilet at all, while 193 million do not have adequate sanitary...

SEATTLE, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill Gates today announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge--an effort to develop "next-generation" toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don't have it. The awards recognize researchers from leading universities who are developing innovative ways to manage human waste, which will help improve the health and lives of people around the world. To view the multimedia...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com Maintaining the world’s large river basins will be a key to bolstering the overall health and economies of the regions containing them, according to a new report by the United Nations. Despite the importance given to these major waterways, the study’s projections show that seven of the top 10 river basins are currently being used at volumes that are unsustainable. At the same time, the study reported that almost 25 percent of worldwide GDP will come from...

For years, the United Nations, World Health Organization and other noted groups that are working to eradicate death and illness due to lack of sanitation have been spreading the word about these and other horrific statistics: about every 15 seconds a child dies from a waterborne-related disease; over 40 percent of the world’s population (2.6 billion people) does not have access to toilets; safe drinking water is unavailable to 1.1 billion people. In fact, the global sanitation crisis is...

New Strategy Promotes Adoption of Safe, Affordable Sanitation in the Developing World KIGALI, Rwanda, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean, sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world. In a keynote address at the 2011 AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the foundation's Global Development Program, called on donors,...

The World Toilet Summit is a crucial event that brings together brilliant professionals from various industries in an effort to escalate the solution to the global sanitation crisis. October 31 marks the first time this life-critical event has taken place in the United States. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) November 5, 2010 The International Code Council World Toilet Summit 2010 (WTS) officially kicked off on October 31 with a welcoming reception at the National Constitution Center hosting a...