Perhaps most troubling is that failing to tackle the water and sanitation crisis is undermining progress on all development, including, food, health and education.
Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.08.2009 | World
The efficiency rate of the Zabaleen is almost 85%, rivaling the best of Western urban recycling models. Even still, the state seems intent on wiping them out.
John Sauer | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
Universal access to water and sanitation is still a pipe dream for many poorer countries, especially nations in Africa.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
India successfully coordinated an election involving 700 million participants. Now, it needs to put that effort into bringing them water.
John Sauer | Posted 05.14.2009 | World
Even those of us in the international development field have pretty much neglected the fact that diarrhea is still fatal in many parts of the world. It kills 1.6 million children each year.
Suz Redfearn | Posted 05.12.2009 | Living
Pre-gorilla poo eating, I'd been able to protect my daughter from the dark and perplexing side of life. But post poo-eating, everything had changed.
greenUPGRADER | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green
In the developing world clean water and sanitation are very scarce. This is due to over population and lack of infrastructure and poses a serious hea...
John Sauer | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
If people joined together to support water and sanitation projects they could immediately help woman shatter the most basic of glass ceilings -- access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
John Sauer | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics
Every 20 seconds, a child dies of sanitation-related diseases, which kill five times as many children as HIV/AIDS.
J. Carl Ganter | Posted 09.14.2008 | Green
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- By strange turn of fate or my wife's careful selection, almost every film we saw this summer at the Traverse City Film Festiva...
Yahoo Video | Posted 09.10.2008 | Green
One in four girls does not complete primary school -- compared to one in seven boys -- and the lack of proper sanitation is partially to blame. ITT an...
John Sauer | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
John Sauer | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
It is an interesting phenomenon that society pays attention to a natural disaster -- like an earthquake -- far differently than a silent, ongoing disaster that takes, more lives.
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John Sauer | Posted 07.08.2009 | World