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Second workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins: challenges, progress and lessons learnt (Geneva, 12-13 April 2011)

We would like to invite you to the “Second workshop on water and adaptation to climate change in transboundary basins: challenges, progress and lessons learnt” which will take place on 12 and 13 April 2011 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva, back-to-back with the fourth meeting of the Task Force on Water and Climate (14 April 2011). (more…)

The Bread of Life Development Foundation in conjunction with the Water and Sanitation Media Network is pleased to invite you to the 2^nd Water and Sanitation dialogue being convened to review the ‘Nigeria Water Sector Roadmap’, recently launched by the Federal Government.

The objective of the dialogue is to deepen public understanding of its contents, and make recommendations for the development of Nigeria’s water and sanitation sector (both in urban, small towns and rural levels) against the background of  the ‘Nigeria Water Sector Roadmap’. (more…)

New World Water Day 2011 Desktop Backgrounds, T-Shirt templates, Mobile Content and the official World Water Day 2011 logo in over 30 languages for  download at

http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/campaign.html

In this article, Olayide Akanni of the Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria relates the experience of  Late Abiagail with HIV and AIDS  stigma and diiscrimation in Nigeria

Remembering Abigail…

Abigail Obetan Atireni came into the limelight in 2002 after featuring
on Newsline, the popular feature package presented as part of the
Nigerian Television Authority(NTA) Network News. Abigail who was then
a Counsellor with the Lagos State Agency for the Control of AIDS
(LSACA),featured on the programme to enlighten the Nigerian populace
about living with HIV and the need to stop to the Stigmatization and
Discrimination of People Living with HIV.

Having been on the receiving end of the widespread epidemic of
HIV related Stigma and discrimination from family and closed friends,
Abigail courageously used the media platform to convey the need to
accept and relate with  people living with HIV with dignity.
She talked about her experience living with HIV, and the challenges of
caring for Rachel, her two-year old daughter who was also HIV positive. (more…)

Procurement of Water Treatment Chemicals

World Bank

Status: Current

1. The Cross River State Government has received a credit from the International Development Association (IDA) toward the cost of the Second National Urban Water Sector Reform Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this credit to payments under the Contract for the Procurement of Water Treatment Chemicals.

2.   The Cross River State Water Board Limited now invites sealed bids from eligible and qualified bidders for the following Water Treatment Chemicals to be procured: Aluminum Sulphate, Hydrated Lime, Calcium Hypochlorite

Project Summary

The Lagos State Government of Nigeria has received financing from the International Development Association through the Federal Government of Nigeria toward the cost of the Second National Urban Water Sector Reform Project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for Consultancy Services for Engineering Supervision of Rehabilitation of Water Treatment Plant at Iju.

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Download from this link

http://www.watergovernance.org/documents/WGF/Reports/Issue_sheets/WGF_IssueSheet_no3_Gender.pdf

Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations
related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation

Catarina de Albuquerque

National Planning for the Implementation of the Right to Water and Sanitation

The Independent Expert seeks to benefit from diverse views and perspectives and encourages all stakeholders to submit their views on the issue. In particular, the Independent Expert would welcome submissions that reflect the experience of developing, implementing and monitoring national plans and/ or strategies that reflect human rights standards and principles. She is particularly interested in the following aspects:

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