The film crews have gone, the Bollywood actors and actresses have withdrawn with sighs of relief and renewed commitment, the village women have left their hiding places and swept up, the village men have chortled yet again about when the chicken sat(?) on the camera lens and Normal Life has returned to a settlement in … Continue Reading ››

Preparing an awareness-cum-fund raiser on child diarrhoea issues on Dutch public radio, the Netherlands Red Cross has this week brought together key WASH staff from eight colleague societies in Asia and Africa in their offices in The Hague. Under a broad umbrella of ‘WASH and Resilience’, they reviewed latest evidence-based developments in WASH. A session on … Continue Reading ››

Alie Eleveld, a leader of the safe water and AIDS programme (SWAP) in Kisumu, western Kenya, was awarded a royal decoration by the Queen of the Netherlands as a Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau, late in April. It was due to her “selfless dedication and devotion” in her work, reports SWAP. Much of … Continue Reading ››

Innovations come, it is often said, from the edges. Here’s impressive news of one in HWTS which has hit the mainstream, to the tune of 5.5 million USD for three years. Earlier this week, the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) programme of USAID announced an award to Dispensers for Safe Water(DSW), a social enterprise mothered by our … Continue Reading ››

The Safe Water School project of the Swiss EAWAG (aquatic research), Helvetas and Antenna Technologies Geneva, financed by the Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC), is building a solid foundation in Bolivia, Kenya and Haiti for a large-scale adoption of school-driven water treatment. A new Antenna video – which could well become a … Continue Reading ››