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 – Puerto Rico: Mosquitoes from sceptic tanks transmit dengue
  – Bilateral aid: update on new water funding from Japan, Australia and
   Spain
 – Conferencia Regional 2008: Políticas para servicios de agua potable y alcantarillado económicamente eficientes, ambientalmente sustentables y socialmente equitativos 23 y 24 de septiembre 2008, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile

– Publicar algo sobre el taller de Documentacion de procesos que tuvo lugar en Honduras.

Para incluir en el Boletin mensual:
Publications récentes (max 2)

– Waterlines, vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2008)
– Beyond construction : use by all : a collection of case studies from
   sanitation and hygiene promotion practitioners in South Asia
 
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PUERTO RICO: Mosquitoes from sceptic tanks transmit dengue
 
The implementation of a dengue control programme in Puerto Rico led to the
discovery of previously unknown mosquito breeding sites underground.
Research published in the March 2008 issue of Medical and Veterinary
Entomology [1] showed that large number of mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti),
which transmit dengue fever to humans, were found to breed in septic tanks.
Geographical Information Systems identified significant clustering of adult
mosquitoes, which led to the discovery of underground aquatic habitats
(septic tanks) that were producing large numbers of Aedes aegypti and Culex
quinquefasciatus (Say) in the treated town.
 
Septic tanks are widespread in suburban and rural Puerto Rico, where,
apparently, they can contribute significantly to the maintenance of
island-wide dengue virus endemicity.
 
[1] R. Barrera, M. Amador, A. Diaz, J. Smith, J. L. Munoz-Jordan, Y.
Rosario (2008). Unusual productivity of Aedes aegypti in septic tanks and
its implications for dengue control.
 
Medical and Veterinary Entomology [www.irc.nl/url/26090] ; vol. 22,
no. 1 ; p. 62-69.
 
Contact: Roberto Barrera, Dengue Branch, Centres for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1324 Calle Cañada, San Juan 00920, Puerto Rico. Tel.: + 1 787
706 2399; Fax: + 1 787 706 2496; E-mail: mailto:rbarrera@cdc.gov

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FUNDING
 
BILATERAL AID: update on new water funding from Japan, Australia and Spain
 
Japan is setting up a new technical assistance corps of groundwater and
water supply system specialists to be known as «W-SAT,» or the
«Water Security Action Team», which will be dispatched to work in
Africa. This is one of the new initiatives mentioned by Japan’s Prime
Minister Yasuo Fukuda in the opening session of the Fourth Tokyo
International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) in Yokohama.
Fukuda announced that Japan would double aid to Africa, currently US$ 1.7
billion (EUR 1.1 million), by 2012. Japan will also provide ODA loans of up
to US$ 4 billion (EUR 2.6 billion) to improve African infrastructure.
 
Peru will obtain US$ 80 million (EUR 51.8 million) in funding from the
water and sanitation cooperation fund, created by the Spanish government.
The fund, announced by Spain in November 2007, was launched on 16 May 2008
in Lima, during the Latin America and Caribbean-European Union heads of
state summit. Peru will be the first country to receive resources from the
fund, which has US$ 1.5 billion (EUR 1 billion) to distribute from
2008-2012.
 
Australia will invest AU$ 300 million (EUR 183 million) over three years,
with AU$ 8 million (EUR 5 million) in 2008-09, to improve access to clean
water and sanitation. Priority areas for Australian aid are the Pacific and
Papua New Guinea.
 
Related news: Latin America: Spain launches US$ 1.5 billion Water Fund,
Source Weekly [www.irc.nl/url/25062], 10 Dec 2007
 
Web sites:
 
 * Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)
   [www.irc.nl/url/26188]
 
 * MOFA – Japan’s ODA [www.irc.nl/url/15788]
 
 * Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI)
   [www.irc.nl/url/26189]
 
 * AusAID [www.irc.nl/url/3646]
 
Source: WASH News Finance, 6 Jun 2008 [www.irc.nl/url/26182], 25 May
2008 [www.irc.nl/url/25929] and 20 May 2008
[www.irc.nl/url/25898]
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Conferencia Regional 2008: Políticas para servicios de agua potable y alcantarillado económicamente eficientes, ambientalmente sustentables y socialmente equitativos
23 y 24 de septiembre 2008
CEPAL, Santiago, Chile

CEPAL e InWEnt organizan en cooperación con GTZ.

En las últimas décadas América Latina y el Caribe ha avanzado en la cobertura y en la calidad de los servicios de agua potable y alcantarillado, sin embargo, los retos que todavía quedan son enormes:
la falta de cobertura se ha acelerado y sus efectos impactando gravemente la estabilidad económica, social y ambiental de los países.

http://www.eclac.cl/drni/
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New Publications

 
WATERLINES, VOL. 27, NO. 2 (APRIL 2008)
Year of publication: 2008
 
Waterlines, vol. 27, no. 2 (April 2008)
 
The April 2008 edition of Waterlines describes innovative ways to make
knowledge on water, sanitation and waste accessible to the users in the
field. It includes the following articles:
Crossfire: ‘Knowledge sharing should focus on learning culture, rather
than the generation of knowledge’ by James Webster and Geoff Pearce;
Improving water and sanitation provision globally through information
sharing by Martin Mulenga; Learning alliances for integrated and
sustainable innovations in urban water management by Joep Verhagen, John
Butterworth and Mike Morris; Practical answers: a platform for knowledge
sharing by Robert Cartridge, Neil Noble and Zbigniew Mikolajuk; The power
of knowledge in executing household water treatment programmes globally by
C. Dow Baker, L. Rolling, R. Martinez, A. Baryar, G. Bulos and M. Lipman;
and The challenge of servicing on-site sanitation in dense urban areas:
experiences from a pilot project in Dhaka by Jonathan Parkinson and Masudul
Quader. It also includes book reviews.
 
Download individual articles (cost US$9 + tax )
[www.irc.nl/url/26187]
 
Single copies of the whole issue can be ordered (cost £12.50 or $25) from
Practical Action [mailto:publishinginfo@practicalaction.org.uk]
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BEYOND CONSTRUCTION : use by all : a collection of case studies from
sanitation and hygiene promotion practitioners in South Asia
Year of publication: 2008
 
WaterAid and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (2008). Beyond
construction : use by all : a collection of case studies from sanitation
and hygiene promotion practitioners in South Asia. London, UK, WaterAid and
Delft, The Netherlands, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. –
viii, 400 p. – ISBN: 978993704729
 
Collection of papers presented in a 3-day learning and sharing workshop on
sanitation and hygiene, from 29-31 January 2008, in Gazipur, Dhaka,
Bangladesh. Over 50 people were invited to participate in the workshop
including NGOs working on WASH in the region, academia and the media. The
objective of the workshop was to identify and learn from good practices
identified by a wide group of stakeholders. Secondly, the workshop looked
ahead to SACOSAN 2008. Workshop subjects were: urban, sanitation, rural
sanitation, hygiene promotion, and finance. The publication contains the
following: an overview of the workshop discussions, the messages that
emerged and plans for further joint work; 23 case studies written by
practitioners from the region for the workshop divided into sections on
urban sanitation, rural sanitation and hygiene; and a concluding paper that
takes stock of progress in South Asia.
 
Download document or individual papers [www.irc.nl/url/25860]
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