The following post by guest blogger Thilo Panzerbieter of the German Toilet Organization (GTO) refers to the GTO activities during WWD2013: On this year’s World Water Day, 200 school pupils from five schools assembled at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and confronted … Read more →
Kenya-based video journalist Ruud Elmendorp recently produced this short trailer (on behalf of Waste.NL) on a young woman that refuses to marry her boyfriend – until his family builds a proper toilet: The story is about a boy who is … Read more →
Only one third of all people wash their hands with soap after using the toilet or before eating. The consequences are fatal. Each day, about 3,600 children under five die from diarrhea. Diarrheal diseases in children are still the second … Read more →
The German Toilet Organization (GTO), in cooperation with Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and the GIZ program “Sustainable sanitation – ecosan”, offers two training courses (basic and advanced) in Germany for NGO workers and interested parties who … Read more →
In an update to the wonderful “Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies“, Christian Zurbrügg of Eawag/Sandec today informed us of Compendium Cards which are now available in English, French and Spanish: “Each card corresponds to the one of technologies listed … Read more →