Rural water and sanitation infrastructure

Rural sanitation

Japan provides aid for schools, water facility in rural areas

20 March 2020
Khmer Times
Education funding / Japanese aid / Rural sanitation / Rural water supply
Cambodia-Japan relation

Four provinces yesterday received nearly $400,000 in aid from the Japanese government to construct schools and infrastructure, according to the Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh. ...

 Srey Kumneth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50703678/japan-provides-aid-for-schools-water-facility-in-rural-areas/

Groups launch initiative to improve sanitation

20 November 2019
Khmer Times
Rural sanitation / Water and sanitation
Cambodia Rural Sanitation DIB / iDE Cambodia / Stone Family Foundation / United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

The United States Agency for International Development, the Stone Family Foundation, and iDE Cambodia, supported by Social Finance, yesterday launched a $10 million initiative to develop market-based solutions for sanitation in six provinces. ...

 Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50661317/groups-launch-initiative-to-improve-sanitation/

More than 100 villagers return home after methanol poisoning

9 May 2018
Khmer Times
Public health / Rural sanitation / Rural water supply / SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation
contaminated water / Prek Ter stream

More than half of the villagers who fell ill after drinking contaminated water or methanol-laced rice wine in Kratie province’s Chetr Borei district last week have returned home after receiving treatment. ...

 Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50487671/more-than-100-villagers-return-home-after-methanol-poisoning/

Study links toilet usage, height

26 October 2016
The Phnom Penh Post
Rural sanitation / Water and sanitation
Economics and Human Biology / Ministry of Rural Development / Plan International / Unsanitary Toilet

A new study has found that open defecation, which is still commonly practised in Cambodia, has direct links to reduced heights in children, with a decrease in the practice over five years leading to increases in height. ...

 Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-links-toilet-usage-height

Rural latrine access on the rise, gov’t finds

16 November 2015
The Phnom Penh Post
Rural sanitation / Rural water and sanitation infrastructure / Water and sanitation / Water and sanitation infrastructure and facilities
Ministry of Rural Development

The Ministry of Rural Development on Friday announced that more than half of Cambodians now have access to improved sanitation such as latrines.According to the ministry’s statement, 47 per cent of Cambodians now lack access to improved sanitation, compared to 89 per cent in 1990.The ...

 Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rural-latrine-access-rise-govt-finds

Arsenic in well water poisoning the most vulnerable

Villagers in Preak Russey have learned that red means arsenic. ...

 Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15002//

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