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“Bathroom Habits Die Hard”
A recent iDE Global WASH Initiative article published on medium.com goes over the hard, and often puzzling, process of changing the hearts and minds of communities in countries that practice open...
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“In India, ending open defecation requires more than just behavior change”
In a recent piece by Alys Francis on devex.com she goes over the challenges of ending open defecation in India via behavioral change. We cover this issue at length on our site, mostly because it is...
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Our Dedication to MHM.
This article written by WSSCC and distributed via the Guardian.com advocates for the linkage between sanitation and menstrual hygiene management (MHM). We whole-heartedly share this message, and have...
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RTI’s alpha prototype installation is in full swing!
RTI alpha prototype installation is in full swing at CEPT University in Ahmedabad! The CEPT university team is finishing the site’s research building, and the RTI and L&T team are working on...
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Inaugeration of RTI’s WiC Prototype Toilet in Ahmedabad.
Saturday, September 19 2015, 12:00 pm Near Canteen CEPT University Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus – Navrangpura, Ahmedabad In 2011, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) launched the bold Reinvent...
View Article“Maybe Trevor Noah Shouldn’t Be So Comfortable With An Indoor Toilet”
Friend and collaborator Chris Buckley, recently got some great press in an interview on npr.org. It’s an informative, entertaining read that’s also helping to advance our cause. “Are you saying that...
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We recognize this week and the 15th of October as global hand washing day.
Our RTT prototype site at CEPT University incorporates and promotes hand hygiene. With an interior wash basin in the alpha prototype cabin, and a sink available beside the exterior urinals, we are...
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“Sensory survey of key compounds of toilet malodour in Switzerland, India and...
In a recent article published in “Flavour and Fragrance Journal” authors Charles Jean-François Chappuis, Yvan Niclass, Isabelle Cayeux, and Christian Starkenmann write about the results of a recent...
View ArticleRTI Brief: “Bring the Change You Want to See: Scripting Women and Girls into...
RTI International recently released a brief documenting six policies and missions related to urban sanitation in India while also drawing attention to the current inadequacies in recognizing gender...
View Article“A Girl Gets Her Period And Is Banished To The Shed: #15Girls”
NPR.org recently posted a story about the practice of banishing girls from everyday life activities (in some cases, from the very homes they live in) while they a going through their period. From Nepal...
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Field Work Post: Students Help Promote Our Alpha Unit on CEPT Campus
Our student team is working up some creative ideas for spreading the word about our alpha unit in the “WiC Research Lab” on the CEPT campus. QR Codes: One those ideas involves the use of QR codes,...
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An Important Milestone For Our Project Has Been Reached!
One of the core responsibilities of RTI’s system, now under development, is to separate liquid waste from solid waste. Once separated, the solid waste is then convectively dried and delivered to a...
View Article2nd International Conference Terra Preta Sanitation & Decentralized...
November 18 – 21, 2015, held on the BITS Pilani Goa campus, the 2nd International Conference Terra Preta Sanitation & Decentralized Wastewater System is a conference focused on decentralized and...
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We Can’t Wait…
Today the globe recognizes November 19th as World Toilet Day. Our entire project and its team stand with rest of the global community in working to find a solution to the world’s sanitation problem....
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On the Fine Art of “Pee-Cycling”….
Often, with projects such as ours, you hear about the hot button topic of how sanitation systems are going to deal with solid waste. And that notion makes sense – feces tends to harm the human race on...
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“Happy #WorldToiletDay! Here’s What It’s Like To Live Without One”
Maria Fabrizio for NPR In a recent opinion piece on NPR.org by Jane Otai, she describes the ways that, as a woman, she dealt with finding proper toilet facilities to go the bathroom in Kenya. She holds...
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“UNICEF: 500 children die every day from lack of safe water, sanitation in...
In a press release last month, UNICEF announced that around 180,000 children under the age of 5 die annually in sub-Saharan Africa. Breaking it down, that’s roughly 500 children a day. 500 children....
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“Can a community ever be truly open defecation free? Is it actually a...
For many people on this planet, the idea of pooping outside in the open is disgusting and embarrassing. For many more people, it is the only option. In a recent article posted in The Guardian, they...
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“Checking Out a Next-Generation Toilet”
Recently we had the pleasure of hosting Duke University during their visit to our field testing site in Ahmedabad, India. They had a chance to see our functioning prototype up close as well as listen...
View Article“DPF Stanford 2015 : The WASH Trap: Sanitation & Hygiene in India”
Dasra, a fellow a Gates collaborator focusing on knowledge management in sanitation in India, recently posted a video recorded from the 2nd annual Dasra Philanthropy Forum at Stanford University in...
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