From the Site:

David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB’s overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs. In this role, David consulted for dozens of African based companies, non-profits and governments in the fields of agriculture; food processing; water and sanitation; and mobile applications for development…..

WASHLink note: If we all could be as open as David, I think we be so much further along in the global WATSAN efforts.

from site: Access to clean water is a human right and is closely incorporated in the Millennium Development Goal number 7 with the aim to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.

Jan Eliasson is chairman of the Swedish WaterAid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sweden and currently represented in the UN group of Ambassadors for promoting the Millennium Goals, offered the opening speech at TEDxUniversityofGothenburg.”

from site:”Nikki Shaw is a water and sanitation (watsan) engineer with a passion for toilets. With a career spanning two decades and five continents, Nikki has extensive watsan expertise in both industrial and developing countries: Rural water supply systems in Botswana, grassroots sanitation provision projects in Cambodia, to designing sewerage for Hong Kong tower blocks and Singapore MRT train systems. She has learned many valuable lessons and shares a surprising revelation: Safe toilets are the key to everything good.”

“TEDxSingaporeWomen 2011 was TEDxSingapore’s 13th event since 2009 and was a collaborative event with TEDxWomen in New York and Los Angeles and over 80 TEDx events across the globe.”

http://www.watercanary.com/Water_Canary.html

World Water Week in Stockholm 2012

Submit your event proposal or abstract before 15 February

Organisations and individuals are invited to submit proposals for organising a seminar or side event at the 2012 World Water Week, or to send in abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the scientific workshops.

Submitting proposals for seminars or side events

Submitting abstracts for the scientific workshops

The deadline for proposal and abstract submission is 15 February.

This year, the World Water Week in Stockholm will take a closer look at global “Water and Food Security”. Increasing imbalances in the world’s water and food security situation are unfolding. Economies of countries as well as businesses are becoming restrained by the availability of water, leading to a rush for resources beyond national territories. Increasing floods and droughts together with volatile food prices are having direct effects on political stability and national security. At the same time there are great untapped synergies in the management of food and water. The management of these basic resources will have enormous effects on our future.

About the World Water Week
The World Water Week in Stockholm, organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute with FAO and the CGIAR as Key Collaborating Partners for 2012, provides a unique forum for the exchange of views, experiences and practices between the scientific, business, policy and civic communities. The Week focuses on new thinking and positive action toward water-related challenges and their impact on the world’s environment, health, climate, economic and poverty reduction agendas. In 2011, more than 2600 participants from nearly 130 countries attended the World Water Week and some 180 leading international organisations collaborated with SIWI in arranging the event.

The 2012 World Water Week will take place August 26-31.

For more information on the World Water Week in Stockholm visit www.worldwaterweek.org  or download the first announcement.

At the Stone Family Foundation, we want to find, reward and support new initiatives in the water sector that are innovative, entrepreneurial and potentially scalable. We hope the Stone Prize will help take promising approaches to the next level of their development.

We are looking for initiatives based in sub-Saharan Africa and South and South-East Asia that are developing sustainable and effective services to get clean drinking water to people who need it. This could be: marketing and selling low-cost household water purification technology, or using mobile phone technology to process water kiosk payments cheaply.

Our prize winners will be able to demonstrate their potential to have an impact—we’re not looking for ideas that exist only on paper or in someone’s head, but ones which have been tested on the ground in some way. The key for us is that winning applications can show that their idea works, and that applicants have the ambition and energy to take the initiative to the next stage.

Some examples of what we are looking for include:

• Taking a successful idea out of the laboratory and testing ways to market and deliver it in the field;
• Developing ways to successfully market and promote a new technology;
• Adapting an existing service to reach the poorest households; or
• Transferring a promising model into a different context or country.

The Stone Prize is open to all organisations and individuals that meet our criteria. There may be up to five prizes, and the winner(s) will receive £100,000 each.

We hope that this prize will do more than simply finding and supporting initiatives with a potentially significant impact on people’s lives.

We want it to encourage people to talk about what innovation and entrepreneurship means in the water sector, and think about pioneering new ways to ensure everyone has access to safe, clean drinking water.

web-papers

• E-Source Sanitation News  by Cor Dietvorst
• The Daily WASH  by World Hygiene Programme
• The WaterAid Weekly by WaterAid
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene by WaSH-Net
• toilet.and.tap  by toilet.and.tap
• The WaSH-Net Sierra Leone Daily by WaSH-Net
• Clean Water Solar SVDs Daily  by Clean Water U-Can SVDs
• WASHgap Uganda WeKli by Peter J. Bury (w)
• The Water Footprints Daily  by Water Footprints
• The Water Street Journal Daily   by Water Street Journal
• Simavi – Wereldtoiletdag by Simavi
• #IFWF3 by Elmi Bester
• The *Água & Water * Daily by Elton Mello
• Humanitarian Aid, Sustainable Dev   by Elton Mello
• Paul de Digitect’s Water paper byPaul de Frankrijker
• The Mighty Bubble Daily Published by Mighty Bubble

how it works (source http://support.paper.li/entries/20023257-what-is-paper-li )

Dear all,

The preparations for the 4th International Dry Toilet Conference are well
under way. We have now finished the Second Announcement and Call for Papers.
Please, see the attachment (2.9 MB). The Brochure in pdf-format can also be
found on our website at drytoilet.org/dt2012.
http://www.drytoilet.org/dt2012/Pdf/Second_Announcement_and_Call_for_papers.pdf

You may submit an abstract *by January 15, 2012*. Conference registration
will be opened in November.

Best wishes,
Erja Takala

–

*Erja Takala (Mrs)*
*Conference Secretary*
*Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland*
*secretary2012 @ drytoilet.org*

in Mexico City, Mexico
on September 23 and 24,
and in Palenque, Mexico
on September 29 and 30, 2011.

These two day training sessions in Spanish are designed for community health workers and others who wish to be able to accurately and inexpensively test community drinking water for safety.
The workshops will be conducted by Agua Pura Para El Pueblo, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting safe drinking water, and hosted by AMEXTRA, the Mexican Association for Rural and Urban Transformation. The World Health Organization and other organizations recommend testing water samples for the presence of E. Coli bacteria as an indicator of fecal contamination. The workshops will feature the use of the Petrifilm plate from 3M and the Colilert fluorescent assay by IDEXX. These two methods are much simpler to use and more accurate than most other testing methods for coliform bacteria, especially E. Coli. By the end of the workshop participants will have been trained in the use of these methods and will have the testing materials to use in their own programs. The focus will be on modern methods of water testing, but will also include demonstrations of simple methods of water purification.

For more information including costs and registration contact: tom@paraelpueblo.org