Hello, regarding this posting: Nepal pledges water and sanitation for all by 2017 Ministers from Nepal and nearly 50 other countries have pledged to strengthen efforts to bring water, basic toilets and hygiene to their people following the Sanitation and Water for All High-Level Meeting in Washington, DC, USA, on 11 April. The meeting was opened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. “Achieving sanitation and water for all may not be cost-free – but it will set people free. Access to sanitation and water means a child free of disease, a woman free of the back-breaking chore to fetch water, a girl free to attend school without fear, a village free of cholera, and a world of greater equality and dignity for all,” Ban Ki-moon said. We at the Good Gardeners International have a sanitation solution for Nepal and other rural places that is second to none. Please see our web sites www.ggi.org.uk andwww.suaglon.co.uk ; Together these web sites offer DRY sanitation solution for Nepal which also manages all organic waste clean up at the same time. The end result is a fertiliser/soil conditioner that is also second to none, at the same time. This fertiliser/soil conditioner when applied to agriculture properly produces pest and disease free crops. This has to be a way forward for Nepal and other countries. We are taking the HH-2 Horticultural system, as it is known, into Mozambique in the next couple of months for the same reasons. DRY sanitation with the HH-2 system means there is no contamination of ground water as it is a totally above ground sanitation system and because it is aerobic there is no smell or flies or rats! Only optimum fertiliser. Please write to us if you have funding for us to start a programme in Nepal. I am also sending this to the Gurkha Trust, whom I already am in contact with. With best wishes, Richard Higgins Director Good Gardeners International Sustainable Agriculture London