International

- Faith in Water: meeting leads to new partnerships between religions and

  UN agencies

- Right to water: PLoS editorial promotes it, Californians to get it

- Virtual water: food products should carry water footprint

  information, says UK report

Quote of the week

- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, USA

Africa South of Sahara

- Africa: G8 water and sanitation initiative lacks concrete action

- Kenya: Nairobi water board sent packing following reports on malpractices

- Mozambique: positive results claimed for delegated water management

- Swaziland: just add water and stir multiple use water services in

  Maplotini

Asia & Pacific

- India, Karnataka: 72 per cent in rural areas have no access to toilets

- Nepal: hygiene campaign sets up 100 booths in slum areas

- Viet Nam: where the schools have no loos

Latin America and the Caribbean

- Latin America: governments seeks to regulate shared waters to guarantee

  supply

- Bolivia, Chile: Govts ready to sign initial agreement on Silala waters

- Bolivia: huge glacier disappears

Names

- South Africa: Water Affairs Director-General Pam Yako, suspended

- Andrs Szllsi-Nagy: new Rector at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water

  Education

- Dr. Albert Wright: renowned expert joins Global Sanitation Fund Advisory

  Committee

- Henk Holtslag : Dutch international volunteer of the year

- Bente Schiller : new Senior Adviser Water and Sanitaton

Vacancies

- WatSan Coordinator, MedAir, West Darfur, Sudan (Northern States)

- Lecturer in Environmental Science - Aquatic ecology/water quality,

  UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

- Lecturer in Environmental Science - Environmental Planning and

  Management, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, The Netherlands

- Secretariat Coordinator/Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing, AED,

  USA

Research

- Gender: effect of womens perceptions and household practices on

  childrens waterborne illness in Lebanon

- Health impact: purchase of drinking water from street vendors leads to

  higher child mortality in Indonesian slums

Funding

- Asia: development banks set up shari'ah-compliant infrastructure fund

New Publications

- Evaluating and improving the WASH sector

- Is low coverage of modern infrastructure services in African cities due

  to lack of demand or lack of supply?

- Local sources of financing for infrastructure in Africa

New on the Net

- UPI launches Global Water Feature service

- WaterCredit

Conferences & Events

- Networking Event in the Field of Water Management and Sanitation for

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