The Governments of Japan, the Republic of Korea, Liberia, Senegal, Tajikistan and the United States sponsored the water-and-sanitation event, which also featured supportive remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Ki-moon
We can only hope that efforts like the sanitation matchmaking event this summer begin to shed light on what the real opportunities are for doing more about the very real challenges affecting the scaling of sanitation in India.
On World Water Day (March 22) a coalition of nearly 30 organizations from the public and private sectors, including foundations and faith leaders, came together at "Uniting for Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation," an event at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C. to spur stronger commitments to address the global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) crisis.
It all started when we submitted a problem statement at the London leg of the Sanitation Hackathon, an event that took place simultaneously in 14 cities around the world in early December 2012.
'Leadership in Sanitation' At the event, Chief Macha, a Zambian traditional leader from the Tonga community in Southern Zambia, was awarded the 'Leadership in Sanitation' prize.
The event – 'Water and Sanitation Symposium: International Year of Sanitation – A Platform for Action in Africa and Asia' – convened to harness ideas from a variety of sectors in order to improve water and sanitation throughout the world.
He will deliver his messages and call for the participation and action of the community on issues related to clean water and sanitation at different public events, through various on-site communication activities and mass media during the next two years.
Finally, John Manton asks how the event of Environmental Sanitation Day relates to the broader movements, spatiality, histories and temporalities of urban sanitation in Ibadan.
And in the event of poor sanitation, infections like norovirus ― which causes stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea ― and typically afflicts crowded facilities such as daycare centers, nursing homes, schools and cruise ships, can spread rapidly.
In India, it was reported that increasing rates of diarrhea disease, also including cholera, are related to poor sanitation facilities and extreme rainfall events (9).
Other events by water and sanitation advocates far and wide helped draw media attention to World Water Day, the global water and sanitation crisis and the solutions that exist to solve it.
