Resources / This week's global WASH news

General news

• Reaching the unserved in cities, India Together
• Will India meet the millennium development goal on sanitation?, Down to Earth
• Africa: Nation to Host Continental Conference On Sanitation, AllAfrica.com
• Rwanda: Nation Targets 100 Percent Sanitation Coverage By 2012, AllAfrica.com
• South-south funding with no strings attached, The Guardian
• China Gives Almost Half of Foreign Aid to African Countries, Bloomburg
• PAKISTAN: Unsafe water kills 250000 children a year - government, IRIN News
• More developing countries close to attaining key MDGs targets, Business Day

News from the water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector

• India – A Decade of the Total Sanitation Campaign, World Bank/Sanitation Updates
• Global deaths from diarrhoea, malaria, AIDS declining, study predicts, Sanitation Updates 
• India, New Delhi: using Facebook and SMS to keep the city clean, Sanitation Updates
• Sierra Leone: Traditional Leaders Undergo Training on Community-Led Sanitation, WASH News Africa
• Sanitation as progress, UNICEF 
• Pathogen destruction and solids decomposition in composting latrines, Sanitation Updates
• Global potential of phosphorus recovery from human urine and feces, Sanitation Updates