But the work is still around, in part because of the poor sanitation system in India.
Food was running low, sanitation wasn't working, and temperatures inside soared to 110 degrees.
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right in July 2010.
It will also be a victory for one Elizabeth McCaughey, crusader for hospital sanitation.
The app is currently being fine-tuned to help track schools with low sanitation levels.
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Yet water and sanitation facilities are a key ingredient of social and economic progress.
It has a dangerous mix of poor sanitation, high population density and limited health services.
Provinces and municipalities, responsible for things like housing, water and sanitation, routinely underspend their capital budgets.
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Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, where he was supporting a strike by sanitation workers.
Furthermore, he says, the MDGs on basic sanitation are unlikely to be met before 2025.
There is no sanitation, and water has to be carried from a river outside the town.
The sanitation is a disaster and many are sleeping in roads and car parks, he adds.
He was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968, while helping lead sanitation workers on strike.
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One of the areas that I felt needed immediate attention was the water and sanitation issue.
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The company develops and markets sanitation chemicals, dish and textile washing systems, and infection control products.
Ecolab is the largest company in the commercial cleaning and sanitation business in the world.
We launched our clean water and sanitation program in 1998, starting small with village-based water systems.
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Focus areas include agriculture, environment, health, sanitation, family planning, education, literacy and rule of law.
Many live in the most basic of shacks - without water, electricity or sanitation.
"But nobody follows these guidelines, " said Rishal Singh, an official of the city's sanitation department.
"How sanitation regulations are promulgated and enforced in a community are different, " Cliver said.
What if you only suffer emotional distress from a ruined vacation, upsetting sanitation, etc?
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Better schooling, sanitation and medical attention may be of greater help to the poor.
More broadly, dirty water and air, and poor sanitation, are the biggest preventable causes of death.
Travellers complain they face a bleak winter camped in the lane, with deteriorating sanitation and sickness.
They have no running water or sanitation dysentery and even cholera are real risks and no income.
And EcoLabs is a company that provides sanitation services to hospitals and to restaurants.
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Water, sanitation and other utilities are usually absent, making the incredible overcrowding even harder to bear.
They say Israel's five-year blockade of the territory is preventing crucial sanitation equipment from getting in.
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