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“If you’re wasting cold water to get your hot water, then you’re really wasting both water and the energy resources,”

2.6 billion people around the planet don't have access to safe toilets. Not only does this impact health, but empowerment as well: women and girls "face high rates of violence when they don't have access to safe and dignified...

Resources are scarce in Kenya, and nearly half of the population lives below the poverty line, but they do have poop. Activists with Nakuru Water and Sanitation Services Company are providing clean fuel for local residents...

A simple machine can convert human waste to electricity and fertilisers. It is time to rethink how we treat this valuable resource

In Dakar, an Uber-like SMS service has reduced the cost of emptying pit latrines by nearly half – and now customers can sell their waste to be turned into energy

Bio-centres turning human waste into electricity prove that faeces is the ultimate source of renewable energy

Quick! Take 30 seconds and think of everything you can possibly do to combat climate change. Done? We're guessing that yoga wasn't on that list. But India’s new prime minister thinks that his country’s ancient practice...

No one wants a landfill in their backyard, but the alternative - trucking garbage to other states - is an obvious drain on funds, fuel and energy. Present Architecture recently proposed a plan that they think could alleviate...

The UN and the World Health Organization define access to water and sanitation as a basic human right, yet many homeless go without. In San Francisco alone, there are 16 public showers for the 3,100+ men, women and children...

Over two billion people on the planet lack access to adequate sanitation. That means dirty water, disease, and contaminated medical supplies. Without access to proper infrastructure providing plumbing or electricity, finding...

Actor and co-founder of water.org Matt Damon won’t let a good opportunity to raise awareness of clean water down the tubes. To draw attention to the 2.5 billion people who do not have access to proper sanitation, Damon...

Bill Gates helped to invent the personal computer and now, through his philanthropic foundation, he plans to help reinvent the toilet. On Tuesday, the billionaire awarded the California Institute of Technology with a $100,000...

Often accused of lacking solutions, anti-privatisation activists are keen to show alternative ways to manage and deliver services It would be easy to think last week's water talks in Marseille, France, were dominated by a...

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