Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson shows off the official proclamation for World Plumbing Day, which was celebrated this year with the first National Water Wise Award presented to Nicole Hurtubise, CEO of WaterAid Canada by Claude Des Rosiers on behalf of the Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating. OTTAWA - To celebrate World Plumbing [...]
In 1972 Barbara Frost left Keele University after two years studying psychology and social sciences, and went on what was intended to be a gap year. She took the so-called magic bus to Istanbul, continued by public transport on the hippy trail to India and Nepal, and ended up living in a commune in Australia. [...]
Viewers of England's One Born Every Minute television show will be familiar with the joy, agony, beauty and, sometimes, the tragedy of childbirth. The long-running documentary series has shown that midwives' jobs can be as tough as they are rewarding. But the environment that specialists like Cheryl Stanley and Delia Jepson work in – clean hospitals [...]
Do you know what your core body temperature is? Mine is 36.2°C, give or take minor fluctuations. I know this not because I am a hypochondriac, but because it was taken countless times each day during my recent trip to Liberia and Sierra Leone – at army road blocks every few miles, at the entrance [...]
Nearly two years since my daughter was born the memory of sitting at home alone ten days afterwards, waiting for an ambulance and bleeding like a tap turned on, is still with me. I remember thinking what the experience would have been like if I was in, say, Sierra Leone. All sorts of things contributed [...]
Finally, an agreement. After four years of talks, nearly 200 countries this weekend formally agreed to an international deal on limiting climate change. Described as “the world’s greatest diplomatic success”, “a major leap for mankind” and “a victory for the planet”, it’s been hailed by global leaders as a turning point in the fight against [...]
As we observe this World AIDS Day 2015, it is our conviction that ending AIDS by 2030 is achievable, with the right tools and practice. Percy Ngwerume, Senior Programme Officer, SAfAIDS and Mafupu Esther Mokoena, Team Leader, WaterAid Lesotho and Swaziland, discuss the importance of WASH in the push to end the epidemic “The world [...]
WaterAid-commissioned research shows that billions of dollars pledged to climate change financing have not been dispersed, and that little of the funding is going to the world’s poorest countries which are most in need. The study, 'Climate finance and water security', based on research by Oxford Policy Management, found that between 2003 and 2014 developed [...]
WaterAid’s new #GiveAShit app offers a way to take action on World Toilet Day, a UN-recognized day aimed at breaking the silence around the global sanitation crisis. In communities around the world, lack of proper sanitation affects health, education, dignity, the environment and economic opportunity—especially for women and girls. App users can create their own [...]
