Rural homes in China that lack sanitation face health and hygiene issues, particularly during the flooding season. Red Cross programs, supported by the International Federation and funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department, have b...

Impact on lack of sanitation in rural communities and the well-being of families. 

Listen to Richard Thomas, Assistant Director of United Nations University Think Tank on Water (UNU-INWEH – http://inweh.unu.edu/) explain the role the private sector can play in helping to add value to local producers and rural communitiesR...

(Harare, November 19, 2013) — The water and sanitation crisis in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, places millions of residents at risk of waterborne disease. Five years after cholera killed over 4,000 people and sickened 100,000 more, the cond...

Pacitan is the first district in Indonesia to successfully achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status through the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing program or STMB Program. This video illustrates STBM implementation that emphasized empowerment...

Warning: This talk might contain much more than you’d ever want to know about the way the world poops. But as sanitation activist (and TED Fellow) Francis de los Reyes asks — doesn’t everyone deserve a safe place to go? TEDTalks is a daily vide...

This 4-min video overview of the sanitation business model in Indonesia illustrates a one-stop shop sanitation business model targeted at entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.  The video animation follows Mr. Budi, a sanitation entrepreneur who prod...

NIAMEY, Niger, 17 July 2008 — The latest UNICEF-World Health Programme Joint Monitoring Programme report focuses on sanitation improvements. The report finds that while more people are drinking water from safe sources, far too few are using imp...

n Timor-Leste, only 36 per of rural households have access to basic levels of sanitation. Nearly a third of the population have no choice but to collect dirty water from unsafe sources. Poor hygiene practices remain widespread and diarrhoea is preval...