“I’m the water man,” said Weldekiros Assefa, an engineer and water and sanitation expert for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Ethiopia. “I have the best job at MSF.” Assefa is checking water hand pumps in May Kwait, a small village in northwestern...
While access to adequate sanitation is a basic human right millions of people around the world still practise open defecation. This is particularly shocking when you consider the impact that exposure to human faeces has on public health, living and...
Sanitation in South Africa is characterised by both achievements and challenges and in order to speed up the rate of success and overcome obstacles many believe the answers lay outside the public’s perceived notion of what “proper” sanitation is....
The Department of Water and Sanitation has met with the Khayelitsha Water and Sanitation Forum to discuss water and sanitation issues affecting the community of Khayelitsha. This follows the announcement by Social Justice Coalition (SJC) last month...
