Bangladesh: Greater Women’s Involvement in Implementing Arsenic Mitigation...
Given the opportunity to participate and develop their capacity, women have often served as catalysts for change. This is particularly true in the provision of safe drinking water to households and...
View ArticlePakistan: Distance Learning Program on Arsenic Mitigation
Distance Learning Certificate Program Social Capacity Building for Arsenic Mitigation Measures: Understanding the Health Risks of Drinking Arsenic-contaminated Water. Organised by: Urban Development...
View ArticleBangladesh: Water of over 30pc tubewells arsenic-contaminated
Water of more than 30 percent tubewells in the country are arsenic-contaminated raising further the number of arsenicosis patients, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday [03 Nov 2008]. This problem...
View ArticleNepal: Order to manage arsenic-free water
The judges of Supreme Court Min Bahadur Rayamajhi and Gauri Dhakal have jointly ordered the Ministry for Physical Planning and Works and Ministry for Information and Communication to conduct public...
View ArticleBangladesh: Election manifestos and WatSan sector priority
Prior to the December 2008 elections in Bangladesh, which were won by the Awami League-led grand alliance, Tareq Salahuddin reviewed what the main parties had to say about water and sanitation in their...
View ArticleBangladesh: mobile phone SMS network connects local government
Chapai Nawabganj Upazila has launched a program to ensure that 100 per cent of drinking and irrigation water sources in the Upazila [subdistrict] are tested and marked for arsenic contamination. Union...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....