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A waste management employee rides on a garbage truck wearing a face mask and gloves, as Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a State...

Nation Jan 14

Garbage and recyclables pile up as omicron takes its toll on sanitation workers

By Travis Loller, Associated Press

Nation Apr 20

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A sanitation worker’s fears about collecting trash during the pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the phrase “essential workers” tends to bring to mind first responders and hospital staff. But a key function of American society is collecting garbage to keep our communities clean. PBS station WTTW in Chicago is producing…

World Mar 01

A woman in Arani district in rural Bolivia washes her clothes in a newly constructed clean water system. Photo courtesy of Water For People
Denver nonprofit quenches a community’s thirst for clean, reliable water

Water For People, a Denver-based nonprofit, is helping communities in Bolivia and other countries get drinking water and sanitation services for everybody.

By Larisa Epatko

Health Nov 19

4 innovative toilet designs to talk about on World Toilet Day

In honor of World Toilet Day, we have compiled a list of a few innovative toilet designs that show promise in helping to solve sanitation and ecological problems.

By Margaret Sessa-Hawkins

World Nov 20

25 percent of people worldwide still get fecally contaminated water

Out of the world's population of 7.3 billion people, about one-quarter of them drink water from sources polluted with fecal matter, and one billion people practice open defacation. That number is especially high in rural parts of the world, where…

By Laura Santhanam

Apr 18

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Using bathroom humor to try to improve India’s rural sanitation

By Ruth Tam

It will take all of three seconds to recognize UNICEF India’s recent “Take The Poo To The Loo” is not your average public service announcement. The Indian government and private aid groups have struggled with the country’s rural sanitation for…

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Jun 28

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As Obama Arrives, Reflecting on Change in South Africa and Iconic Leader Mandela

As Obama Arrives, Reflecting on Change in South Africa and Iconic Leader Mandela…

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Dec 27

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Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response

By Talea Miller

Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti.

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Apr 14

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Investors Help Bring Sanitation to Kenya’s Poor

Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya, where private capital is being used to help install toilets and sanitation facilities in the country's poorest areas.

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Feb 12

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Aid Groups Hope Showers, Latrines Stave Off Disease in Haiti

By Larisa Epatko

Preventing the spread of disease in Haiti's quake-damaged cities, where thousands have taken refuge in temporary camps, is a formidable task in a country that already posed sanitation challenges.

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