John Sauer is Communications Director for Water Advocates in Washington, DC. His work focuses on the development and implementation of communications strategies and strategic partnerships to increase US support and action for worldwide access to safe, affordable, and sustainable drinking water and adequate sanitation. John has an M.A. in International and Intercultural Management.
By John Sauer
Progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goal for water looks hopeful but the MDG for sanitation is not on ...(Read)
By John Sauer
By the looks of it, a new cause has been born: bringing access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to thos...(Read)
By John Sauer
The WHO states that 88 percent of cases of diarrhea worldwide are caused by unsafe water, inadequate sanitation or in...(Read)
By John Sauer
Most people probably think of cholera as an inevitable consequence of a natural disaster. However, the sinister disea...(Read)
By John Sauer
Lack of access to sanitation is still a big problem in Malawi with only 23 percent of the population using improved s...(Read)
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Good: Strong, authoritative writing in a style that the non-expert can understand.
Needs work: Look at the edited version for style and punctuation edits. You use hyphens when commas are in order; you provide organizational abbreviations (OECD, MDG) when they are only mentioned once, and you omit periods in abbreviations such as U.S. and U.N. (but correctly leave them out for WHO and UNICEF.)
In the part about Durbin’s bill, you said they are “aiming to reach 100 million people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015.” Why would they want to reach people who already have those things? It was changed it to say they are aiming to help those people achieve safe water and sanitation by 2015.
“Peri-urban” was left in the story, although it is not in any standard dictionary, just Wiktionary.
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I love it. Solister helps the people with sanitation and health and the environment all the while making money (or hopefully it will soon).
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Great article John! I hope this attracts more support for Fresh Water Project and other organizations working to help people in Malawi and other countries in need of basic water and sanitation.
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Karsten Gjefle commented on "Man Promotes Toilets, Humanure, for a Healthier Malawi" (4 months ago)
Very interesting story about Malawi - great to see that easy to use technology is able to reach so many people. We are working on how to create a sanitation system based on 100% reuse in urban slums. We have a quicker and more robust treatment for the solids (the disease creator) and that is needed if we are to go to scale within the large urban slums of Africa. If you would like to learn more about us or support us please let me know.
Since fertilizer is so cheap in Malawi it would be interesting to know more about how it can become marketable as an alternative to highly subsidized industrial fertilizer?