Stockholm International Water Institute » health http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Flush and Forget – 2.6 billion People Off Track… http://www.siwi.org/publication/flush-and-forget-%c2%96-2-6-billion-people-off-track/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/flush-and-forget-%c2%96-2-6-billion-people-off-track/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:58:06 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/flush-and-forget-%c2%96-2-6-billion-people-off-track/ Stockholm Water Front No.3 2012 article

Surely an initiative that creates jobs, saves lives, saves the environment and boosts the economy – all at the same time – would be a “no brainer”? Unfortunately not, if it concerns sanitation.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/flush-and-forget-%c2%96-2-6-billion-people-off-track/feed/ 0 American Public Health Champion Receives 2010 Stockholm Water Prize http://www.siwi.org/publication/american-public-health-champion-receives-2010-stockholm-water-prize/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/american-public-health-champion-receives-2010-stockholm-water-prize/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:46:16 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/american-public-health-champion-receives-2010-stockholm-water-prize/ Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished Professor from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, has been named the 2010 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. Dr. Colwell’s pioneering research on the prevention of water-borne infectious diseases has helped protect the health and lives of millions.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 1 2010.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/american-public-health-champion-receives-2010-stockholm-water-prize/feed/ 0 Promoting Transparency, Integrity and Accountability in the Water and Sanitation Sector in Uganda http://www.siwi.org/publication/promoting-transparency-integrity-and-accountability-in-the-water-and-sanitation-sector-in-uganda/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/promoting-transparency-integrity-and-accountability-in-the-water-and-sanitation-sector-in-uganda/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:43 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/promoting-transparency-integrity-and-accountability-in-the-water-and-sanitation-sector-in-uganda/ Uganda has placed the fight against corruption high on the development agenda by establishing a range of anti-corruption institutions and strategies. The Uganda National Integrity Survey III, released in 2008 by the Inspectorate of Government, recommended that if Uganda was to make real progress in tackling corruption nationwide, individual sectors would need to undertake sector-specific studies to identify best practice and facilitate scaling-up of anti-corruption efforts. In that year, the Good Governance Sub-Sector Working Group, chaired by the Ministry of Water and Environment, commissioned a Water Integrity Study to establish how citizens in both rural and urban areas, contractors, private operators, local government officials and staff from the main water utility experience integrity in the provision of water services. The study would also facilitate development of an updated action plan to address integrity risks. This note describes the key ingredients to putting in place a nationwide good governance action plan in Uganda’s water sector, the challenges to be overcome and lessons learned to date. The implications for practice are discussed from the perspectives of policy makers, regulators and ombudsmen, development partners, water service providers and civil society actors. This provides guidance for the replication of best practice by stakeholders in other countries and sectors.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/promoting-transparency-integrity-and-accountability-in-the-water-and-sanitation-sector-in-uganda/feed/ 0 Stockholm Water Front No. 2 2010 http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-2-2010/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-2-2010/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:45:39 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-2-2010/ The 20th anniversary of the World Water Week in Stockholm is the main focus in this issue of Water Front Magazine. Professor Malin Falkenmark compares the outcome of the last 20 years of the week and the expectations of the coming 20 years and the importance of safe drinking water for economic and national security are highlighted, which also is the message from this year’s Stockholm Water Prize laureate Dr. Rita Colwell.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-2-2010/feed/ 0 Social Marketing in Sanitation – More than Selling Toilets http://www.siwi.org/publication/social-marketing-in-sanitation-more-than-selling-toilets/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/social-marketing-in-sanitation-more-than-selling-toilets/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:16 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/social-marketing-in-sanitation-more-than-selling-toilets/ Sanitation and hygiene is consistently, and justly, described as the orphan sector of development. Professionals working with sanitation lament the devastating effects that the lack of international attention and chronic under-funding in the sector has on the health, lives and development of the over 2.6 billion people who lack access to safe sanitation. Due to the supposed “unsightly” nature of the issue, many blame a subconscious but powerful taboo surrounding sanitation in the international community as a central cause of the slow and insufficient progress being made to address the global sanitation crisis.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2008.

Click here to read the article in Spanish.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/social-marketing-in-sanitation-more-than-selling-toilets/feed/ 0 2008 Synthesis Report: Annex – Summaries and Conclusions for Workshops, Seminars and Side Events http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-synthesis-report-annex-summaries-and-conclusions-for-workshops-seminars-and-side-events/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-synthesis-report-annex-summaries-and-conclusions-for-workshops-seminars-and-side-events/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:14 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-synthesis-report-annex-summaries-and-conclusions-for-workshops-seminars-and-side-events/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-synthesis-report-annex-summaries-and-conclusions-for-workshops-seminars-and-side-events/feed/ 0 2008 Abstract Volume http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-abstract-volume/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-abstract-volume/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:12 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-abstract-volume/ This is the Abstract Volume of the 2008 workshops. The workshop topics are: Waste as a Resource, Water Afteruse – Protecting Health and Ecosystems, Changing Human Behavior – Prospects for Progress, Preventive Action for Human Health, Cost-effectiveness in Pollution Abatement, The Sustainable City, Water and Sanitation under Changing Climatic Conditions, and The Lingering Failure of Sanitation –– Why?

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/2008-abstract-volume/feed/ 0 A Little Light Relief? http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:53 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/ Most people in the developed world are fortunate: they can take proper sanitation for granted. But millions in poorer countries are denied this most basic of human needs. They suffer indignity and disease, and their societies suffer as well. Alex Kirby reports on the economic upside of sanitation.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.4 2007.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/a-little-light-relief/feed/ 0 Urban Sanitation: Politics in a Dirty World http://www.siwi.org/publication/urban-sanitation-politics-in-a-dirty-world/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/urban-sanitation-politics-in-a-dirty-world/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:46 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/urban-sanitation-politics-in-a-dirty-world/ The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of UNICEF and the World Health Organization estimates that access to basic sanitation in urban populations “crept up” from 79 to 80 percent between 1990 and 2004. One percent may seem minimal, but in conjunction with the increasing size of urban populations the absolute numbers of unserved urban people rose from 475 million to 611 million over the same period. Still, some countries are showing signs of steady progress.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.4 2007.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/urban-sanitation-politics-in-a-dirty-world/feed/ 0 Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2007 http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-3-2007/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-3-2007/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:37:26 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/stockholm-water-front-no-3-2007/ Over 2500 participants from 113 countries gathered in the Swedish Capital for the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm to attend the exciting series of plenary sessions, workshops, seminars and side events. The conference placed focus on numerous issues, such as: addressing the critical lack of sanitation, water scarcity, transboundary water governance, and building capacity to empower communities. This issue of Water Front presents the outputs from World Water Week and the discussions emphasised on the great modern challenge to navigate global change.

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