WASH Helpdesk moves to WordPress

As an organisation we have chosen WordPress as standard application for our blogs. The current Blogger page will no longer be maintained. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you.

We invite you to go to the NEW LOCATION !

We have transferred all the existing question and answers - up to 15 May 2008 - to this location. Please bookmark the new location of the WASH Helpdesk: http://washhelpdesk.wordpress.com/

Thank you for visiting this page,

kind regards,

Ingeborg Krukkert,
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Effect of access to water and sanitation on achieving MDGs

Q: I know that improved access to water and sanitation has a positive effect on more than half of the MDGs. Do you have a 1-2 page summary of these effects?
(sector professional, Dutch NGO)

Answer: The best two-pages are from WaterAid, as far as I know. They illustrate that access to safe water and sanitation will underpin success in achieving all the MDGs and must be part of an integrated approach to development. See: http://www.wateraid.org/international/what_we_do/policy_and_research/6241.asp

Examples of water and conflict

Q. The Pacific Institute (USA) is updating, again, our Water Conflict Chronology and we're looking for new (2006-2008) examples you might have come across recently of violence related to water: access, quality, terrorism, etc. in the news.

Answer. Use this link to find articles published over the past year in Source Weekly on "conflict" or "conflicts".

See also the documents published in the Negotiating peri-urban water conflicts (NEGOWAT) project (2003-2006).

How to get involved in the International Year of Sanitation?

Q: Ours is a research and development center for the youth under the aegis of the ministry of youth affairs and sports of the government of India. We want to participate in the international year of sanitation and also for the programmes and we want to promote the programme in our area. (Institute of National Instruments, India)

Answer:
If you are interested in getting involved in the International Year of Sanitation, please visit the official site of the IYS. There you will find some ideas to get you started. Go to the section Get Involved for more information.