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In Egypt, the Sustainable Rural Sanitation Services Program has brought access to improved sanitation services to 1.73 million citizens in the Nile Delta.

This stuff isn't glamorous, it doesn't get headlines, and it doesn't feature on the front page of any websites...but as you'll hear from the people in this video, it's life-changing. #egypt #sanitation #health #GlobalImpact

youtu.be/lNnqWXlK414

YouTubeEgypt: Strengthening Institutions to Increase Water Access and Improve Rural SanitationBy World Bank
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

Striking Atlanta sanitation workers, and supporters, walking the picket line, carrying signs that say, “City Workers On Strike.”
#workingclass#LaborHistory#union
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Lyla Mehta

Op-ed for #WorldWaterDay2025. Follow Keynes’ advice from 1941- wealth tax on the super-rich can help fund social spending & defense. There’s no need for shameful cuts that will increase poverty & insecurities for the world’s most marginalised people. #USAID #water #Sanitation #WorldWaterDay2025 #UKAid How Aid Cuts Will Shatter Global Water and Sanitation Progress ipsnews.net/2025/03/aid-cuts-w

Inter Press Service · How Aid Cuts Will Shatter Global Water and Sanitation ProgressThe principle of leaving no one behind is central to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The progress toward achieving SDG 6, which aims to ensure universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030 is increasingly under threat with recent development funding cuts posing a significant barrier. As humanitarian funding diminishes, vital water and …
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Merilee D. Karr, MD, MFA

I was interviewed about the public toilet situation in Portland.
Let's convene designers and communities -- again -- to pull together the best ideas in public restroom design, and put them to work.
20 years ago, PHLUSH was born in the collective effort that created the Portland Loo, now installed all over the world.
Post-pandemic -- post public trust -- are there better models?

opb.org/article/2025/03/12/hea
#dysentery
#sanitation
#publicrestrooms
#sanitationjustice
#portlandoregon
#urban
@opb

OPB · Health advocates say Portland needs more public toiletsBy Elizabeth Castillo
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Lyla Mehta

Musk called #USAID evil but frankly Musk is evil.

Why else would he celebrate #USAIDFreeze? As noted in this op-ed by Peter Taylor the closure has far-reaching implications for human health & wellbeing, including the spread of HIV & Mpox, women's health & #water #sanitation projects in some of the poorest & most vulnerable areas of the world.

ids.ac.uk/opinions/the-turbule

Institute of Development Studies · The turbulence and the toll of the USAID freeze - Institute of Development StudiesThe stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director at IDS.
#Musk#Trump
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