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• in Technology
  Brazilian Student Creates Solar-powered Water Treatment System
  A bright idea: Brazilian student taps the sun to treat water
  by apasolini / on Jul 21, 2011
• in Travel
  How Not to Travel With Bed Bugs
  Bed Bugs love travel places like hotels, motels, planes and buses. Inspect your hotel room carefully before you occupy it.
  by kaleeltvp / on May 6, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sanitation”

 

• Dirty water is the major cause of Ugandan childrens illness and death

  
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  Watuwa Timbiti in AllAfrica.com via New Vision (Uganda) : At a communal water spring in Kinawataka, a low-end squalid suburb of Kampala, children with all sorts of repulsively dirty containers are not only collecting water, but equally littering the water point with rubbish. Visibly, the stagnant water down the ...
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• Sanitation promotion history: US New Deal posters

  
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  Posted created in 1940 by John Buczak for the US Federal Art Project. Collection Library of Congress During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the US Government launched a series of economic programmes collectively known as the New Deal. The largest  of these programmes, run by WPA , the Works Progress ...
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• SkyDrop Drinking Water

  
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  MakingIt features the prize winning Joel Mwale, founder of SkyDrop: When Joel Mwale was hospitalized with dysentery, his doctors advised him to focus his energies on making a full recovery. The 18-year-old Kenyan student had caught the illness after consuming contaminated water during the country’s annual dry ...
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• 100 issues of the WASHplus Weekly – March 2011 to May 4, 2013

  
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  Below are links to the past 100 issues of the WASHplus Weekly on various sanitation and other topics. We welcome suggestions on how to make the Weekly more useful. 2013 May 4:  Water & Food Security Apr 26:  Focus on Cookstoves & the Environment Apr 19:  Focus on Handwashing Apr 12:  Focus on ...
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• City gets to maintain Flow Control, but at a heavy price

  
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  The City of Dallas has won lost its battle to enact a Flow Control ordinance.For those who have not been following this environmental issue, the City of Dallas wanted to turn the McCommas Bluff Landfill into a recycling center, a environmentally friendly place where all trash is converted into energy. In order to make ...
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• Waste not, want not, say global sanitation innovators

  
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  Last week’s C-IDEA global health symposium here at Stanford featured 20 presentations on low-cost ideas for preventing disease in developing nations. As I wrote in an Inside Stanford Medicine article on the event, one of the more clever ideas was “ EZPZ ,” a method for treating latrine waste with alkalizing ...
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• Rose George – Reflections on menstrual hygiene management

  
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  Published on May 3, 2013 - Presentation by Rose George (journalist and author of ‘The Big Necessity’ http://www.rosegeorge.com ) at “Making connections: Women, sanitation and health” event. Filed under: Dignity and Social Development , Sanitation and Health Tagged: Rose George
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• SHARE – Making connections: Women, sanitation and health

  
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  Published on May 3, 2013 – “Making connections: Women, sanitation and health” took place on 29th April 2013 at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It was convened by LSHTM and WaterAid as partners of the SHARE Research Consortium. The event brought together a diverse mix of academics, ...
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• Safe drinking water disappearing fast in Bangladesh

  
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  Syful Islam in the Global Development Network in the Guardian (UK) via the Thomas Reuters Foundation : The availability of safe drinking water, particularly in Bangladeshs hard to reach areas, is expected to worsen as the country experiences the effects of climate change, experts say. According to a study by the ...
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• Renewable energy encourages safety for pregnant women in northeast Kenya

  
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  Abjata Khalif – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Sankuri village in the eastern Kenya region near the Indian Ocean is 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the nearest larger capital town of the province in Garissa. Known as a remote area that has poor phone communications with roads that are considered ...
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• Winston-Salem council: No evidence misconduct in sanitation department

  
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  The Winston-Salem Council voted unanimously tonight to adopt a resolution stating that the city manager and city attorney found no evidence to substantiate allegations of forgery, perjury, unaddressed incidents of sexual harassment, failure to respond in a timely manner to a medical situation and retaliation in the ...
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• Solar-powered nanofilters pump in antibiotics to clean contaminated water

  
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  Space Daily via SPX : Using the same devious mechanism that enables some bacteria to shrug off powerful antibiotics, scientists have developed solar-powered nanofilters that remove antibiotics from the water in lakes and rivers twice as efficiently as the best existing technology. David Wendell and Vikram Kapoor ...
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• Screener Cytologist Job career in Kenya, 2013

  
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  Screener Cytologist Job career in Kenya, 2013 Job Title:    Screener Cytologist A screener cytologist with a Bsc preferably Msc in Cytology and must be registered with the Board. Please do not apply if you do not satisfy these conditions. Deadline: 11-05-2013 How to Apply: Applications to be sent to ...
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• Accountant Job in Kenya, Office Administrator / Accountant Kenya 2013

  
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  Accountant Job in Kenya, Office Administrator / Accountant Kenya 2013 Job Title:    Office Administrator / Accountant Industry:  Health and Safety Location: Nairobi Our client, dealing with Health and Safety, Clothing and Equipments seeks to recruit an Office Administrator with basic Accounting skills. The ideal ...
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• African Development Bank (AfDB) Recruits OWAS Water Resources Management Expert

  
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  African Development Bank (AfDB) Recruits OWAS Water Resources Management ExpertAt African Development Bank (AfDB) whether working directly with our state participants or in our professional support... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• EPA to grant $569 million for New York, New Jersey water

  
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  Space Daily via UPI : The Environmental Protection Agency will award $569 million to repair and upgrade water treatment plants damaged by Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. EPA said the grants -- nearly 60 percent of which will go to New York, and about 40 percent to New Jersey -- will help combat risks of ...
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• Nicola Farms Livestock Manager Job in Murang’a County, Kenya 2013

  
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  Nicola Farms Livestock Manager Job in Murang’a County, Kenya 2013 About the Company Nicola Farms Limited (NFL) is a company specializing horticulture and livestock farming. The company is based in Murang’a County near Maragua town in Central Kenya. Livestock Manager Applications are invited for the above-mentioned ...
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• Unfair ticketing in Woodhaven

  
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  From The Forum : Owners have faced forking over as much as $350 per ticket – once fines have accrued while an individual fights the ticket in court – for garbage problems that are not their fault, but rather stem from people who dump everything from mattresses to pieces of paper on others’ property, according ...
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• Artists for Clean Water

  
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  As a Global Citizenship Fellow, I am always looking for ways to connect the community with UNICEF. I’ve also learned that there’s nothing quite like art to get peoples attention. And since San Francisco is surrounded by water—and full of artists—I decided to hold a city-wide call for submissions for a ...
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• Educational cartoon boosts worm infection prevention

  
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  Cover of the Cartoon “The Magic Glasses. Educational cartoon boosts worm infection prevention | Source: News-Medical, Apr 29, 2013 | Researchers in China have found that a health education package targeted at schoolchildren can improve hygiene behaviors and reduce the incidence of soil-transmitted  helminth ...
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