We were lucky to have some big names in water & sanitation at our Water & Sanitation Symposium last week. We asked them what the biggest barriers were for water…
VIDEO: WATER & SANITATION FOR ALL?
WATER & SANITATION FOR ALL IS ELUSIVE, BUT ACHIEVABLE
Here’s another guest post on water and sanitation, on the eve of our Symposium on that subject. Barbara Frost is Chief Executive of Water Aid, a charity dedicated to the…
RETHINKING WATER
Our second guest blog for the STEPS Water Symposium is by Gourisankar Ghosh. Gourisankar is the CEO of FXB India Suraksha, a non profit company working for the vulnerable children…
FILM: “WATER AND JUSTICE” OUT NOW
Our new film, “Water and Justice: Peri-urban pathways in Delhi”, tells the story of three people and their relationship with water in the towns and villages on the edge of…
THINKING OUT OF THE WATER BOX
We’re delighted to feature this guest post by Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. This is the first of a series of blog posts by speakers…
REVOLUTIONS ON THE NILE
By Alan Nicol, IDS and Ana Cascão, Stockholm International Water Institute Today is official Nile Day in the basin and celebrations will be taking place in Goma, Democratic Republic of…
EGYPT AND SUDAN: POLITICS AND WATER IN A NEW NILE STATE
Our STEPS Water Seminar on 22 February is with Ana Cascão from Stockholm International Water Institute, who’s recently returned from working in Egypt and Sudan. Ana is a political scientist…
CALL FOR PAPERS: WATER AND SANITATION SYMPOSIUM 2011
The STEPS Centre’s Water and Sanitation Symposium on 22-23 March is entitled “Some for All? Pathways and Politics in Water and Sanitation since New Delhi, 1990”. We’ll be looking at…
4 BIG CHALLENGES FOR WATER AND SANITATION
Photo: Map of sanitation in Ndeke village, Zambia, from the CLTS Flickr photostreamWe live in uncertain times. If you’re looking for something that embodies the changing and conflicting forces of…
SHIT AND CITIZENSHIP
In the last 15 years, the way sanitation is treated in Brazil has changed dramatically. The picture of poor investment and danger to public health is being replaced by climbing…