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September - October 2016 Vol. 11 No. 5

Contents
REGULARS

Publisher
S.N. Mwaniki
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2 Guest Editorial

34 Hygiene

3 News in Brief

36 Water & Health

Editor
Kariuki Wangai
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21 Water & Sanitation 38 Publication
Events

40 Roundup

Assistant Editor
A. Ayiro

22 People

41 Calendar 2016

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Dr. Judith Nyunja
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FEATURES
11 How can water utilities provide reliable water to poor
people in African cities?
Sustainable Development
Goal (SDG) 6 targets
“universal and equitable
access to safe

and affordable drinking water for all”. However, in
Africa’s fast-growing cities, just accessing water is a daily
struggle for many poor families.
13 Cities face dramatic increase in water treatment
spending when watersheds are developed

A new global study has
found that one in three
large cities spend 50
percent more on water
treatment
costs as a result of damage to the ecological quality of

their watersheds.

14 5 Innovations In Cyber-Water

Some researchers
say that the Earth’s
water is even older
than the sun,
arriving on the
planet as it formed by way of interstellar ice. It’s the
genesis for all life as we know it, central to our earliest
civilizations, and still as important to our existence as it
has ever been.

19 More Funding Needed to Achieve Water and
Sanitation Sustainable Development Goal
The AfDB and
the African
Water Facility
—an instrument
established by the

African Ministers’
Council on Water and hosted by the AfDB— have
convened or taken part in a series of events aimed
at translating the high-level commitments on water
security and sanitation into implementation.
20 UN Environment Head Visits Ethiopia

UN Environment
Chief Erik
Solheim
concluded on
Tuesday August
26, 2016 a two-day visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
where he met with officials of the Government
of Ethiopia, heads and representatives of key
regional institutions as well as strategic partners in
the region.
26 Why clean energy is a water conservation strategy
Recent storms,
droughts, and
rising seas focus
our thoughts on
‘resilience’. That
buzzword boils
down to building systems that can withstand and
quickly recover from the effects of climate change.
In the water sector, resilience means ensuring
sufficient supply and managing demand.
30 In Ghana, a long overdue ‘place of convenience’ for
an entire community
For the past 25
years, the Ho SDA
School in Ghana’s
Volta region has had
no toilets on campus.
The situation
forced students and teachers to find their own ways
to manage without these facilities, creating issues
with both sanitation and attendance at the school.

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