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Shocking reality of sanitation crisis faced by billions brought to London’s doorstep

Stuart Mitchell

A quick trip to the loo is taken for granted by almost every Brit, yet one in three people around the world do not have a clean and safe toilet of their own. Andrex® and WaterAid are bringing the global sanitation crisis faced by 2.3 billion people around the world to the attention of the country’s capital, at a pop-up installation in London’s Shoreditch Boxpark. From 16 November until World Toilet Day on Monday 19 November, Londoners were able to see the shocking sanitary conditions millions of people around the…

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WaterAid launches appeal to get clean water and toilets to hospitals around the world

Stuart Mitchell

A health centre in rural Mali that relies on just 7 litres of dirty water per patient for all its cleaning, drinking and washing needs will get lifesaving water and sanitation facilities as part of WaterAid’s winter appeal, The Water Effect. Talo health centre is among the one in three hospitals in the world’s poorest places that don’t have water, and the one in five without decent toilets. The three staff members at Talo health centre – the health director, midwife and pharmacist –currently make around five trips a day…

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Apprentice star presents prestigious WaterAid award for innovation to Portsmouth Water team

Stuart Mitchell

Star of The Apprentice Joanna Jarjue has crowned six staff from Portsmouth Water as regional winners for innovation in this year’s ‘Winnovators’ challenge run by international charity WaterAid. The ‘Portsmouth Water Tigers’ battled it out against 30 other teams from the UK, USA, Japan and Australia, each determined to find imaginative ways to overcome a real-life water, sanitation or hygiene-focused problem. The participants used ground-breaking thinking and fresh creative skills to come up with new solutions, enhancing their team-working skills and refining their creative business management styles, while also raising…

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WaterAid/UNICEF/WSUP launch new guide to make toilets better for women and girls

Stuart Mitchell

The requirements of women and girls are too often ignored in the planning and design of public toilets, leaving them unable to use the toilet where and when needed.  A range of factors including menstruation, pregnancy and the menopause bring different needs and requirements for women that should be considered when designing and building public toilets. Of particular importance is access to water and soap for cleaning hands or the body and for washing out reusable sanitary products, as well as somewhere to throw away sanitary protection if needed and…

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Decanter’s most successful charity auction at Christie’s turns wine into water and raises £66,000 for WaterAid

Stuart Mitchell

Decanter wine magazine auctioned off more than 4,000 bottles of top quality wine entered into this year’s Decanter World Wine Awards (DWWA), generating £66,000 for international charity WaterAid – the highest amount ever raised. The annual ‘Wine for Water’ auction was held at Christie’s King Street headquarters on 10 October, and bidders were able to get their hands on wines from around the world whilst also helping transform lives, with all proceeds going to support WaterAid’s work in some of the world’s poorest communities. The initiative has been running since…

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