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Sanitation
Corporation for Sustainable Development
@sunitanar Issue Date: May 31, 2004
Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of the United Nations (UN), it has been agreed to halve the number of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation, agreed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, added a similar global sanitation target.
Mucky transfer
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2004
on the night of March 4, 35-year-old Chandramma of Anchetti village in Tamil Nadu's (tn) Krishnagiri district died after a severe bout of vomiting. The next day, five more people with similar symptoms expired in Anchetti and Takkati, a neighbouring village. By March 8, the toll had risen to eight.
Height of inequality
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2004
a child's height may not be entirely governed by his/her genes. The quality of water the child drinks is also a deciding factor. As per a study by researchers from the us-based Johns Hopkins University, children from the poor communities of Peru are nearly one centimetre shorter than kids having access to clean water and sanitation facilities. According to the researchers, lack of clean water increases the incidences of diarrhoea, which in turn leads to malnutrition.
Poor amenities
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2003
• Developing countries devote more than a third of their budgets on education, healthcare, water and sanitation services, but little is actually spent on the poor
• The poor often pay more than the rich for the same goods and travel longer distances to avail basic services
Left unaddressed
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2003
in compliance with a Supreme Court (sc) directive, thousands of 'illegal squatters' along railway tracks around Rabindra Sarobar (lake) in south Kolkata will be evicted soon. The clearing up campaign will be similar to the West Bengal government's 'Operation Sunshine' -- the much-publicised drive to remove hawkers from Kolkata's pavements.
Keeping track
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2003
at the recently held meeting of the 11th Commission on Sustainable Development (csd-11), a roadmap was charted to monitor the progress of commitments made during last year's World Summit on Sustainable Development (wssd) in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Simple, bare necessities
Issue Date: May 31, 2003
Managing water locally - a good model
Issue Date: May 31, 2003
The Swajaldhara and similar schemes focus on constructing water supply installations before ensuring that there is somebody to manage them and pay for their operation. The urgency to provide safe drinking water most often leads to bypassing existing local institutions of resource management. The result is well known: the expected level of service is not reached and the invested capital erodes as gradual deterioration of facilities takes place.
FORESTS: Losing its soul
Issue Date: May 31, 2003
