India’s Dirty Air – A cause for serious concern
This year, on World Environment Day, people across the globe in villages, towns, cities and nations celebrated by pledging to #BeatAirPollution. The harmful effects of air pollution on health and environment are known to all. Jamsheed Cooper, in this blog, muses over the state [...]
Book Launch | Scaling-Up CLTS From Village to Nation | 29th April 2019
The book launch for Scaling-Up Community Led Total Sanitation: From Village to Nation was held on 29th April 2019 at India Habitat Center in New Delhi. Among those invited were representatives of various development agencies including World Bank, UNICEF, Practical Action, Institute of Development [...]
WASH Outlook 2019: Barriers, Solutions and Insights
We have a ticking time bomb and we are racing against the clock to diffuse it! Growing conflicts and climate change are creating more hurdles in this race against time to save lives. If you are engaged in or work closely with the WASH [...]
CLTS Foundation at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2019 by CSE India
CLTS Foundation had the honour of being invited to participate in the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2019 - the annual media conclave hosted by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India at the Anil Agarwal Environment Training Institute (AAETI) in Nimli, Alwar, Rajasthan between 11th [...]
The sanitation ‘time-bomb’ is ticking! It’s time to make ‘shit’ everybody’s business
"Sanitation is one of the most pressing global challenges that the world faces today. Despite significant advancements in coverage since the 1990s, a vast proportion of the global population still lacks access to safe sanitation. Almost 2.3 billion people still do not have access [...]
Human Rights Day: WASH during Emergencies
In 2017, conflict-ridden Yemen suffered the world’s worst on record cholera outbreak. Protracted war and air strikes on water supply and sanitation infrastructure resulted in a complex emergency in the country. Among the major international agencies, World Health Organisation (WHO) is assisting the Ministry [...]
Community Led Approach to Fuel Efficient Cook Stoves: A joint initiative by CLTS Foundation and Vita Ireland
“The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sound economic development. And the same path can lift us to a new, green economy – one with power to lift people out of poverty while respecting [...]
CLTS Foundation in National Sanitation Conference 2018, Eritrea
CLTS Foundation has been invited by UNICEF from 30th November 2018 to 12th December 2018 to support Eritrea in scaling up for an ODF Nation by 2022 and for facilitating the First Eritrean National Sanitation Conference. Day 1 (30th November 2018): The CLTS Foundation [...]
World Toilet Day: How can ‘Reinvented Toilets’ address the global sanitation crisis?
“We asked each team to develop a toilet that would destroy human waste or convert it into a valuable resource such as fuel or fertilizer. The toilet would have to operate “off the grid”—without connections to water, sewer, or electrical lines. The cost to [...]
In conversation with: Emily Woods, CTO and Co-Founder, Sanivation
Ms Emily Woods is an NSF scholar with a passion for developing innovative and affordable technology solutions. After a chance meeting at the World Water Week this year, we decided to take the conversation forward and learn more about innovations in non-sewered sanitation from [...]