At the meeting of the Household Water Treatment Systems network at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on 24 October, 300in6 will be represented by Henk Holtslag and Paul Osborn. They will also attend the adjacent weekend networking workshop and ‘Water and Health’ meeting on 25-26 October.

Henk, a core member of the initiative, is active in the ‘front’ office which focuses on project partnerships. Paul runs the ‘support’ office dealing with all aspects of communication strategy and practice. They look forward to some decisive networking, and to reporting on, and implementing, results in the near future.

For advance information, or to set up appointments, please write to info@300in6.org

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Osborn as the Communications Manager of 300in6. This reflects the ongoing upgrade of our communications outreach, which is core to the upscaling of safe water household solutions.

For the next two months, Paul will consult with our key partners and prepare our future communications strategy and plan, with the mandate to align these very closely with the Household Water Treatment and Storage network (HWTS).

We invite your input and comments for this strategy and plan, on this site and by mail to info@300in6.org

On the 23rd of September there will be a review of the Millennium Development Goals in New York in which the Dutch demissionair Minister President Balkenende will attend.

On behalf of Aqua 4 All and the 300in6 initiative, Sjef Ernes en Henk Holtslag wrote a letter to Mr. Balkenende asking for special attention for water and sanitation since these are basic conditions to reach almost all other MDGs. The letter states that more than ten years ago water and sanitation for all is within reach with lessons learned and new, sustainable and affordable solutions.

Download the letter:
Brief aan Hr Balkenende

At the water week in Stockholm the Dutch water sector and the US state department had a meeting to explore possible cooperation. One of the 8 themes discussed was the 300in6 initiative. The meeting was an organised by the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs.

At World Water Week, the 300in6 stand displays some 10 Smart Disinfection Solutions for household treatment. The stand is a meeting point for the HWT community.

In the seminar “Healthier water, Healthier people” Urs Heierli explained the 300in6 initiative. Representatives of organisations as WHO,UNICEF and many others discussed in this approaches on how to improve water quality.

The announcement of the seminar on the PSI service:
http://www.psi.org/sites/default/files/Water_Flyer_3_Outlines.pdf

We invite you to our daily exhibit and information stand, EH06:13.  Our poster is in the poster area. We shall demonstrate several treatment options as a Silver disc, Watasol, the  Pureit mini and the Siphon filter.  See you there!

300in6 will be at the World Water Week in Stockholm. Here it will present the publication “Safe water for the BoP” and demonstrate promising HWT options including chlorine products, silver products and filters.

A new flyer explains the Vision, Mision and Strategy on how to bring safe drinking water to 300 million people in 6 years time.

Download the flyer:
300in6 Flyer – Safe Water at the Base of the Pyramid

Members of the 300in6 team will be present throughout World Water Week in Stockholm, from 5 to 11 September at stand EH06:13

They will present new publications and water treatment products as Local chlorine production with Watasol, Safe storage options as Plation and Silver disc and filtration options as the Potfilter, Pureit filter and Tulip siphon filter.

We hope to see you there.

www.worldwaterweek.org

This compact 20-page review of safe water solutions describes smart business thrusts such as water kiosks, chlorination by micro-entrepreneurs, locally-produced pot filters and industrially manufactured water filters. Equally, with numerous cases, it discusses how to remove constraints to upscaling: viability, scalability, consumer acceptance and ability to reach the poor. A larger study will be published in early-2011

Download: Original edition, August 2010: Safe Water at the Base of the Pyramid – Booklet

Download: Reformatted, more accessible reprint (July 2011):Safe Water at the Base of the Pyramid – Improved Format Aug 2011 – screen version