Media room and links

Weblinks

1. Chlorine

  • www.belgochlor.be – This website is a host of complete information on chlorine (in French).
  • www.eaudejavel.fr This website is a host of information on chlorine (in French).
  • www.cdc.gov Effect of chlorination on inactivating selected pathogens.
  • www.worldchlorine.org The World Chlorine Council is a global network of national and regional trade associations and their member companies representing the chlorine and chlorinated products industries.

2. Network

  • www.who.int Water, sanitation and health information from WHO
  • www.unicef.org/wash Water, sanitation and hygiene information from UNICEF
  • www.undp.org/mdg The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have set the world on a common course to push back poverty, inequality, hunger and disease. Target 7c is to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
  • www.300in6.org 300in6 is an initiative to empower stakeholders to double existing plans and provide 300 million people with safe drinking water in the six years 2009-2015 with a focus on home water treatment options, including chorine. Its growing and extensive knowledge base, includes business models for sustainable HWTS services, including WATASOL. The Antenna Technologies Foundation is a founding member of 300in6. The estimated 10,000,000 users of drinking water made available with WATA-produced chlorine are counted towards the target of 300in6.
  • www.akvo.org Akvopedia is an open water and sanitation resource. Its knowledge bank includes information on the production of active chlorine with WATA devices.
  • www.sswm.info The Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox is the most comprehensive collection of tools and approaches to improve water resources management sanitation at a local level. Information on water purification is notably featured.
  • www.ideassonline.org – identifies and promotes internationally innovations that have demonstrated their contribution to human development. IDEASS supports the transfer of these innovations by organizing cooperation projects in the interested countries, with the technical and financial contribution of international and decentralized cooperation actors

3. Awareness materials and documentations

Videos

In response to a severe cholera outbreak in Guinea in 2006, UNICEF partnered with Tinkisso, a local NGO in the region of Dabola that produces active chlorine with WATA devices.

This video explains how to produce active chlorine with WATA devices (in French).

This video explains how to use active chlorine produced with the WATA device for drinking water, disinfection and cleaning. It explains also how to use the tests to control disinfection and residual chlorine concentrations (in French).

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