On March 22 the United Nations will hold a Water Conference, the first major UN meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene – often grouped together under the acronym WASH – in nearly 50 years. The meeting will highlight the progress – or lack thereof – toward reaching...
Everyone has a favorite toilet story, some negative, others humorous, perhaps not as bad as the scene from the movie Trainspotting, but an experience that nonetheless sticks with you. I saw my first-ever squat toilet (aka “Turkish toilet”) in a café in Italy and...
Subscribe: SpotifyIn Haiti, a country of just over 9 million people, 75 percent of the population lack access to safe sanitation (only one in five has access to a sanitary toilet). With the high level of environmental degradation and poverty, it’s no surprise the...
Some 8,000 miles away from the United States is a warm and colorful community known as Ward 12. One of the most densely populated slums in Khalishpur, Khulna, Bangladesh, in Ward 12 access to safe sanitation and clean drinking water is severely limited – and a...