Tag: sanitation
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Who Gives A Crap? Sanitation, Energy and Entrepreneurship in Kenya
Forbes: Who Gives A Crap? Sanitation, Energy and Entrepreneurship in Kenya … The toilet they threw open is Sanergy, a year-old for-profit social enterprise that manufactures high-quality, yet low-cost and compact toilets for urban slums in the developing world and then uses human waste to produce energy and fertilizer. It is an “affordable, accessible and…
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Cell Phone Service, But No Toilets
IPS: Cell Phone Service, But No Toilets UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 20 (IPS) – It is a fact of the 21st century that some of the poorest regions of the world have good mobile phone coverage but no toilets or safe drinking water. Simply installing toilets where needed and ensuring safe water supplies would do more…
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Clean water is a right: Water, sanitation and poverty
From the Economist: Clean water is a right: Water, sanitation and poverty GROWING up on the shores of Lake Victoria in the 1950s, Anna Tibaijuka would earn a couple of cents by sorting coffee beans for her father. With one of these coins she would buy a sweet from an Indian shopkeeper. With the other,…