Fifteen (15) per cent of residents of the Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana’s second largest city, is said to engage in open defecation, the Waste Management Department of the Metropolitan Assembly has...
Open defaecation gets out of hand around University of Health & Allied Sciences; lecturers, chiefs fingered
A resident of Sokode Gbogame, a suburb of Ho in the Volta Region where the University of...
LIXIL Group Corporation, a global leader in the housing and building industry, has endorsed a joint declaration with the World Toilet Organization, Saraya Co., Ltd., and the ANA BLUE WING Program on...
Government has announced it will from next year pursue a ‘Toilet for All’ agenda in a bid to end open defecation in the country. Consequent to that, it will provide 200,000 household toilets and...
Homeowners in the Kumasi metropolis without toilet facilities in their homes will soon face prosecution, Chief Executive of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Osei Assibey Antwi, has warned....
UNICEF Ghana Chief of WASH, Mr. David Duncan, has advised WASH sector partners to share more information on WASH programme implementation in the rural areas which were yielding results in order to...
The Asuogyaman District Education Directorate in the Eastern Region has threatened to close down the Serdom Basic School because residents in the area defecate in the classrooms. Because the area...
China is taking care of a pressing need: Authorities have installed or upgraded over 50,000 lavatories in a "national toilet revolution" designed to clean up filthy public restrooms. Relief is coming...
The Indian government has announced plans to roll out ‘Swachh Bharat Toilet Locator’ in 85 cities by 2 October 2017. The app is available for download on the Google Play Store to help people...
A tourist has been caught on film battering a 10-year-old toilet attendant – after refusing to pay 20 pence (equivalent to 1 pesewa) to use the loo. CCTV shows the man with two blonde women...
Classical music, framed watercolors and vases overflowing with fresh flowers -- welcome to New York's poshest public toilets refitted with a $254,000 upgrade, where tips are banned and the facilities...
The residents of Ashaiman and Adjei Kojo have been advised to patronise toilet at half price project to improve sanitation in their communities. The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area–Sanitation and...
Inmates at the Dansoman police cells use urine and sachet water to flush toilet due to frequent water shortage. The toilet facility in the cell is also in a deplorable state as water collects in the...
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the...
Residents of Dominase, a farming community in Gomoa East District of the Central Region, are complaining about health hazards posed by two public places of convenience in the area. According to the...
Ghana is in the process of turning all water reservoirs into security zones to safeguard the provision of the quality treated water for the people. The Executive Secretary of the Water Resources...
Streets in Nairobi slum are littered with human waste, prompting locals to develop innovative solutions to the problem. Wherever you walk in Kibera, the Kenyan capital's biggest slum, there's one...
What is the circumference of the planet earth? No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look very, very small. With that in mind, consider this, if all the people living in...
The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an effective measure of addressing open defecation in the country. The Minister of...
Open defecation persists in Ghana despite continuous education about its effect on society because many Ghanaians consider the practice as a “normal” way of life. According to David Duncan, the...
