{"id":8271,"date":"2020-02-25T08:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:53","slug":"lessons-from-rwanda-on-tackling-unsafe-drinking-water-and-household-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/25\/lessons-from-rwanda-on-tackling-unsafe-drinking-water-and-household-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Rwanda On Tackling Unsafe Drinking Water and Household Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By The Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unsafe drinking water and household air pollution are major\u00a0causes\u00a0of illness and death around the world. This is also the case in Rwanda, where\u00a0most people\u00a0living in rural areas drink untreated water and burn firewood on open stoves to cook their meals.\u00a0More than 80%\u00a0of Rwandans rely on firewood as their primary fuel source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After neonatal disorders, pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease are the two\u00a0leading killers\u00a0of children under five years of age in Rwanda. Unsafe drinking water is the\u00a0leading cause\u00a0of diarrhoeal disease. And cooking indoors on open-fire stoves, with fuel such as wood and charcoal, has been\u00a0linked\u00a0to pneumonia, low birth weight and impaired development in children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been many\u00a0efforts\u00a0to address these environmental health issues, but they often lack the\u00a0financial support\u00a0to be sustained in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2011, we came together as government, implementers and independent evaluators to design and study a programme that would address these environmental health challenges in Rwanda. It would need to be both sustainable and scalable. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/lessons-from-rwanda-on-tackling-unsafe-drinking-water-and-household-air-pollution-125405\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Conversation Unsafe drinking water and household air pollution are major\u00a0causes\u00a0of illness and death around the world. This is also the case in Rwanda, where\u00a0most people\u00a0living in rural areas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}