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Also as part of these holistic programs, 3,022 adults and children received training on effective hand-washing and environmental cleanliness. Three schools formed health clubs, with a membership of 109 students, to facilitate hygiene and sanitation activities among students and community members.

The project also provided Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in three communities. CLTS is a series of activities around raising awareness of open defecation. The exercise empowers community members to build their own toilets out of locally available materials.

One of the women benefiting from Water.org and APDO’s program is Madam Ama Ataa, a 74-year-old blind woman from Chamba Akuraa, Ghana. Ama talks about the benefits she will get from the new latrines in her community: I have been living in this community for several years with my family. As an old woman who cannot see, it has always been a problem to find a suitable place for defecation. I was so very happy when I heard about some good people coming to support and enable us construct latrines. With the help of my family and some good community members, I have been able to construct my own latrine which I am now proud of. I only have a little work left to complete so that I can finally use it. The one have been using for years is open and not clean at all because the birds go there with us. I can’t just wait for the day when the new latrine will be ready for me to use. I thank you for the support!

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Without water, life would not exist. It is a prerequisite for all human and economic development. This 10.10.10 we invite you to share with the world how you access life’s most precious commodity. Whether tap, well, river, or otherwise, capture your water source on video and add it to the world document. Together, our efforts will remind the world not to take water access for granted and will bring new attention to water access inadequacies that need to be improved. Footage that you create will potentially be used in a feature film, as well as a short film created specifically for Water.org, and will live in perpetuity in One Day on Earth’s global archive.

Read full One Day on Earth article.

The plants to be set up in the city suburbs of Nakivubo, Kinawataka, Lubigi and Nalukolongo, are expected to improve sanitation services from the current 7% of the city’s population to 30%. The city currently has only one sewage treatment plant.

Uganda is said to be one of the least sewered countries in the world.

Read full East African Business Week article.

Locals demanded that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dismisses Shaddad Al-Attili, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, for failing to commit to pledges he made to improve the water supply in the city, which has a population of 220,000.

Read full Maan News Agency article.

According to water experts, although the whole world is seriously thinking of conserving their water resources for ensuring water security, Bangladesh is destroying its surface and ground water by throwing wastes in water bodies and over extracting ground water.

Read full Daily Star article.

The longterm threat to Pakistan’s well being is that the country is gradually drying out. The Indus river system is the main year-round source of water for both Pakistan and northwestern India, but the glaciers up on the Tibetan plateau that feed the system’s various tributaries are melting.

While they are melting, of course, the amount of water in the system will not fall steeply—but according the Chinese Academy of Sciences, some of the glaciers will be gone in as little as 20 years. Then the river levels will drop permanently, and the real problems will begin.

Read full Vancouver Free Press article.

The lack of sufficient amounts of rain in winter along with the absence of snow on the Makmel mountain’s slopes, especially al-Qurna al-Sawda, have contributed to the subsequent water shortage.

Read full Daily Star article.