The 21st session of the annual World Water Week in Stockholm under the theme “Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanizing World” provides a good opportunity to build on the outcome of this year’s World Water Day celebrations coordinated b...

The rapidly growing urban centres in the Lake Victoria basin are playing an increasingly important role in the economic development of the region. But most of these towns are experiencing unplanned, spontaneous growth. The run-down and often non-e...

Although sanitation has been hailed as “the most important medical advance since 1840”, over 2.5 billion people – most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – lack access to basic sanitation. The world is not on track to meet the 2015 Mille...