Household Water Newsletter Issue 54
Anthonj, Carmen
Dear Colleagues,
Hope you are all doing well.
Thank you to all of you who submitted announcements, requests and publications for this issue of our HWTS newsletter.
Highlights of this newsletter include
· UNC Water Microbiology Conference 2019: Online Registration is open
· Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI Course and Certificate of Advanced Studies on WASH for Humanitarian and Developing Contexts: Registration until 31 July, 2019
Please feel free to get in touch with me if you would like to share something with the Network. As usual, we welcome material such as recent publications, presentations, events, resources, calls for papers/proposals, etc. If you are seeking assistance with your program planning, you are also welcome to put a request out to the community. Or you may be a researcher and would like to share your research question with others or seek input or contacts for your work.
You may review the guidelines and submit your contribution here: https://hwts.web.unc.edu/newsletter-contributions/.
Best regards,
Carmen Anthonj
Dr. Carmen Anthonj
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
carmen....@unc.edu, 919.966.7644
Save the Dates:
2019 Water Microbiology Conference, May 14-17 (May 13 Pre-Conference Workshop) in Chapel Hill, NC, US
2019 Water & Health Conference, October 7-11 in Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Household Water Newsletter, Issue 54
May 2019
Work and Funding Opportunities
UNC Water Microbiology Conference 2019: Online Registration
The registration for the 2019 UNC Water Microbiology Conference, which will take place in Chapel Hill, USA from May 14th through May 16th, 2019, is open. The conference, hosted by the Water Institute at UNC, creates a forum for researchers and practitioners focused on microbiology and public health issues to come together around the intersection of the two. The conference is a blend of interactive workshops with scientific symposia and poster socials focused on water microbiology from watershed to human exposure including current concerns in recreational waters, shellfish harvesting waters, emerging technologies and quantitative tools. Immediately preceding this year’s conference is a full-day workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance in a One Health World. Register here.
VERGNET HYDRO Odial Solutions Group - Mali: To supply more than 12,000 rural people with drinking water in the centre of armed conflicts
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced that it has awarded a supply and installation contract to the joint-venture composed of the companies Vergnet Hydro and SEEBA (Bamako, Mali) for the construction of drinking water supply systems for more than 12,000 rural people in the Region of Gao in the centre of armed conflicts in Mali. The project comprises the drilling of 22 boreholes, the rehabilitation of 5 boreholes, the setup of 3 solar-powered piped water supply systems, the construction of 17 standpipes and the installation of 24 manual pumps (HYDRO INDIA 60 and HPV100).
Photograph: Pupils drawing water from a HYDRO INDIA 60 manual pump in the ALZANABANDIA ZABA school in Gao (photo credit: UNICEF MALI/2019/DIARRA).
HWTS Network on Twitter
We are intensifying our HWTS twitter activities and share interesting events, publications, trainings, webinars, infographics, stories, job opportunities and much more every week. We welcome all members’ contributions. Our twitter username is @household_water. We will post urgent information on twitter, so, check in periodically with us on twitter. We look forward to hearing from you, learning more about what you’re doing and what’s going on, and sharing stories with you!
WEBINARS, COURSES , AND EVENTS
Potters for Peace Ceramic Water Filter Course, August 17 –28, 2019 at Adamah Clay Studios, Dodgeville, Wisconsin, USA
Potters for Peace, in partnership with the Centre for Affordable Water & Sanitation Technology (CAWST), is offering a two-week ceramic water filter course. By the end of the training participants will be able to demonstrate what is involved in high quality ceramic filter production and explain what is involved in starting and maintaining a successful filter factory. This course is designed to train and support existing factory owners, attract and guide new ceramic filter factory startups, promote collaboration and communication between members of the filter community, improve filter quality on a global scale, thus helping to reduce the global burden of diarrheal disease. For more information, please click here. For questions regarding course content, contact Robert Pillers at rob...@pottersforpeace.org.
New Certificate of Advanced Studies in WASH (Switzerland)
The Centre for Development and Cooperation SUPSI provides a course on Water Sanitation and Hygiene for humanitarian and developing contexts. This course is promoted by 3 Swiss Universities (SUPSI, Eawag and UNINE), it will begin in September 2019 (3 Modules of one week each). The course is designed to empower practitioners with an understanding of the fundamentals of the WASH sector, both in the humanitarian and development context. Fees: CHF 5,700 (including exams). Registration until 31. July, 2019
Further information: www.supsi.ch/go/caswash.
National HWTS Learning Exchange: Best practices and lessons learned on the implementation of HWTS- May 15th – 16th 2019, Bogotá, Colombia
This event organized by the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology, WaterAid and Acción Contra el Hambre will offer a space where different WASH stakeholders will be able to present, reflect and discuss on the progress achieved, challenges and lessons learned on the use of HWTS in Colombia. This event will additionally offer the opportunity for a technology market place where producers-distributers will have the opportunity to share their products with implementers and discuss on the need for setting up demand and product supply chains.
For more information, contact the organizer, Eva Manzano, WASH Advisor at CAWST at eman...@cawst.org. More information can also be found here.
WORK AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
For WASH sector job listings, please refer to the Relief Web Jobs site,
or Josh’s Water Jobs site.
If you wish to share an education, job, or funding opportunity with the Network, please tell us by email at carmen....@unc.edu or hhw...@who.int.
Presentation on Cholera in Malawi: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Occurrence and Prevention Strategies
Muthukrishnan, S., Kamba, M., Kaponda, P., Holm, R. H., Tembo, M. and Barber, R. held a presentation on “Cholera in Malawi: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Occurrence and Prevention Strategies” at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Washington, D.C., from 3 – 7 April 2019. For more information on cholera research in Malawi please contact Rochelle Holm, Manager at the Centre of Excellence in Water and Sanitation, Mzuzu University at roch...@rochelleholm.com
EVENT CALENDAR
2019 Water Microbiology Conference: 14th – 17th May, 2019 (Special AMR Workshop on May 13th) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
2019 Water & Health Conference: 7th – 11th October, 2019 in Chapel Hill, NC, USA
For WASH and water-related event listings, please refer to the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Water Policy & Practice Calendar. If you know of an upcoming international, regional or national event which the HWTS/WASH community should be aware of, please tell us by email at hwtsn...@unc.edu.
About this newsletter: This newsletter is produced by the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF as co-hosts of the International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage. Past issues are available at http://hwts.web.unc.edu/newsletter/. For further information or to unsubscribe, please contact Carmen Anthonj at hwtsn...@unc.edu
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Disclaimer: This publication does not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the World Health Organization or the United Nations Children’s Fund. Any mention of specific companies or manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by the World Health Organization or the United Nations Children’s Fund.