Teeth and Toilets – now LIVE
July 19th, 2014
Go to the site and have a look at how both ends of the body are dealt with!!!! But on a more serious note see the range of works in…
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Improving health…and more
July 7th, 2014
The latest round of the Nepal Sanitation Program ended with some important feedback from many of those involved. Some of the participants had just received one of the 20 toilets…
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Water Innovation Challenge Day 3 and the winner is …
June 6th, 2014
A hectic Day 3 of the inaugural Water Innovation Challenge, and a very close final result, showed the skill and effort of both teams. After the construction works of the…
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School closes to find the root cause of big problem
May 29th, 2014
When a school in a northern Sydney suburb experiences a plumbing problem, the school is closed. Read the local paper’s account below. TREE roots were the culprit of a plumbing emergency that…
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The big picture … with fine grain
May 20th, 2014
The report from CHDS (Nepal) on the just completed Stage 6 of the Nepal Sanitation Program has just arrived and it reveals the fine grain of all the work required…
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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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Lights, camera … and village action
May 9th, 2014
What better time to have the world village premier of the Nepal Sanitation Program movie than at the end of the handover of 20 new toilets. And what better place…
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Knitting together Nepal and Australia
May 7th, 2014
How can a few committed senior Australians improve the lives of children in Nepal? With some wool, skill and hundreds of hours of careful, creative knitting. . . . A…
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More toilets for Nepal and two more villages completed
May 7th, 2014
In the largest single building stage completed under the Nepal Village Sanitation Program, 20 toilets were handed over to the families of two villages. This marks the end of works…
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On tigers and smooth hands – what toilets mean to the villagers of Nepal
May 7th, 2014
As the Sanitation Program reaches completion in two more villages, what better time to get the feedback from those that matter most – the villagers. CHDS Nepal asked the two…
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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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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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