Water, toilets and health
May 12th, 2014
Polluted water causing health problems is almost certainly linked to the inadequate disposal of human waste. The Nepal Sanitation Program has as a key goal the safe removal and treatment…
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New South Wales plumbing pilot program
May 9th, 2014
Fair Trading Minister Stuart Ayres has welcomed the launch of a pilot program to provide annual Plumbing Health Checks for Aboriginal housing providers and their tenants living in rural and…
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How to make toilets fly – a simple idea
April 20th, 2014
Here is a simple idea for architects, building designers and interior designers who specify toilets. How many toilets does your practice specify in a year? No idea? Well use the…
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Health and climate change plea
April 17th, 2014
Read the article from the West Australian, and thanks to an EXCLUSIVE by CATHY O’LEARY MEDICAL EDITOR The West Australian April 16, 2014, Leading health researcher Fiona Stanley has warned…
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Incremental improvement
April 9th, 2014
This has been the case with the toilet and water point maintenance assessment system being developed by WASSUP (Sth Africa) and some very talented architecture students in Australia. The need…
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Pre-schools in the slum areas of Ahmedabad, India
April 8th, 2014
What we see in reading about the Anganwadi Project are many of the principles at work in Housing for Health. We hope you enjoy reading about the project and the exciting…
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Plumbers and health – what a good idea
April 3rd, 2014
Whether in Australia, Nepal, Bangladesh or South Africa, Healthabitat needs little convincing about how the work of plumbers contributes to improving health. So it is a great leap forward to…
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The spread of Housing for Health: The Guide
April 2nd, 2014
Since the launch in early October 2013, Housing for Health: The Guide, the number of people visiting the site has grown and the spread has broadened from Australia to an…
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TED X – a year on
March 28th, 2014
Reflections on the TED X talk ‘Housing for Health’ a year on reveal some interesting results. It would be easy to see the whole TED circus as a self promoting…
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How an Australian Aboriginal health service is helping an African community
March 16th, 2014
When Yami Lester was the Chairman of Nganampa Health Council in the mid 1980s he summed up the environmental health review work of UPK as “water in, shit out”. The…
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Whoops – when the people are NOT the problem
March 12th, 2014
When working in any poor community, when things fail the people who live there are inevitably blamed with ignorance or vandalism. . . . . When the WASSUP team, assisted…
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Starting work in Diepsloot Sth Africa
March 11th, 2014
WorldSkills plumbers and the local WASSUP team started work on the Diepsloot Sanitation project in Johannesburg. Day 1 involved briefings form the local WASSUP team, a final check of each…
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