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March 22, 2009: SWAN Canada members marked World Water Day with successful delivery of 40 toilet seats to Parliament Hill. View photos.

March 13, 2009: SWAN Canada seeks public support for World Water Day (March 22nd) action on Parliament Hill.

-Read the media advisory

-Read the press release

-Participate in the World Water Day Action

November 19, 2008: On World Toilet Day, SWAN Canada calls for sanitation to be a foreign aid priority -
-Read the press release here.
-Read SWAN’s letter to MPs and Senators here.

November 19, 2008: World Toilet Day

November 8, 2008: SWAN Canada unveils new advocacy posters to mark World Toilet Day, 2009. Download here.

SWAN Canada and its website are officially launched on World Toilet Day. Read the press release here.

SWAN Canada writes an open letter to the Prime Minister highlighting the global sanitation crisis. Read the letter here.

SWAN Canada advertisement in Weekly Hill Times (Nov. 19, 2007) and Embassy Weekly (Nov. 21, 2007) highlighting the sanitation crisis. See advertisements here.

November 21, 2007: Official launch of the United Nations International Year of Sanitation 2008 at UN Headquarters in New York.

March 22, 2008: World Water Day

Resources

To gain a better understanding of the global water and sanitation crisis, the following print and web resources are recommended:

SWAN E-Bulletins:

April 2009

January 2009 (inaugural)

	Millions of women have to do it with an audience Without access to an appropriate toilet the lives of millions of women are dominated by the most basic of human needs. Every day they lack privacy, endure shame and endanger their health by waiting for dusk to avoid spectators. Have you ever thought about the true meaning of dignity? Download.
	Dirty Water Kills The right to life is a fundamental human right. So is the right to water. Unfortunately, 1.2 billion people lack access to safe water. Don’t be a witness to this violation. Download.
	Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond scarcity: power, poverty, and the global water crisis. Produced annually by the United Nations Development Programme, the 2006 edition of the report focuses on the water and sanitation crisis and full of useful statistics. http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006
	WHO & UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. The JMP informs members states of the United Nations on the status of water-supply and sanitation coverage at global, regional, and country levels. www.wssinfo.org
	2nd United Nations World Water Development Report, March 2006: This triennial volume, prepared by 24 UN agencies that comprise UN-Water, offers a comprehensive and holistic assessment of the world’s water resources. www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr2
	SWAN Canada is a member of End Water Poverty, an international campaign that aims to bring an end to the global water and sanitation crisis: www.endwaterpoverty.org
	WSSCC is a global membership organization that works to improve the lives of poor people in developing countries: www.wsscc.org
	Progress in Drinking-water and Sanitation: special focus on sanitation. This update report prepared by the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation details progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goal target for drinking-water and sanitation, and analyses what these trends suggest for the remained of the UN Decade “Water for Life” (2005-2015). http://www.wssinfo.org/en/40_mdg2008.html

While SWAN Canada’s focus is on the water and sanitation crisis in developing countries, we recognize that Canada has its own share of challenges. To learn more about the domestic dimension to this issue, we recommend that the following organizations be contacted:

Assembly of First Nations: www.afn.ca
Canadian Water Network: www.cwn-rce.ca
Canadian Water and Wastewater Association: www.cwwa.ca