For about 12 years, young women in the northern Indian state of Haryana have been telling suitors, “No loo, no ‘I do!'” And according to a recent study, the bargain is working: Toilet ownership has significantly increased as men scramble to attract brides in a marriage market where discrimination has made women scarce.
Universal access to safe water and sanitation is achievable by 2030, but only if countries drastically step up their funding to fill the “gap between aspiration and reality,” the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.N.-Water warned in a new report today that analyzed data from 75 countries and 25 external support agencies.
With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean spends less on infrastructure than any other world region. According to a World Bank report, however, the region should not spend more to boost development – it just needs to spend more wisely.
People are abandoning rural life for urban centers in large numbers, and in the next few years, the majority of…
PONKRUM, Ghana — The one public bathroom in Ponkrum collapsed a few years ago. An effort to build a new…
Sen. Thomas Coburn, R-Okla., lifted his hold on the Water for the World Act late last night to clear the…
The following is an abridged version of an investigative report I did with Jacob Kushner for the Ground Truth Project and…
Want to know where all the health centers are in Apa, Nigeria? There’s a map for that. In fact, the…
Everyone these days wants to find a better way to evaluate the performance of humanitarian and non-profit organizations, in part because many of these groups have for too long operated on the assumption that having good intentions, a noble mission, was good enough. But finding better metrics for do-gooders can be harder than it sounds.
If all goes according to plan, every person in the world will have access to clean water and sanitation by…