2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Drinking Water
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Increasing water supplies in rural Ghana
“Our community dam is our only source of water. But these days, it dries up 3 times in the year, and the water becomes muddy, but because we have no choice, we have to use it”: Inusah Ibn Hassan, Assemblyman
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Country report – Republic of South Africa: regulating water and urban sanitation
This study looks at the development of legal and regulatory framework governing drinking water and sanitation services in South Africa. Around 780 million worldwide do not have access to clean drinking
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Synthesis report on state of water: a look at the legal and regulatory framework governing water services across jurisdictions
This study looks at the development of legal and regulatory framework governing drinking water and sanitation services in South Africa, England and United States. Around 780 million worldwide do not have
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Severe water shortages a norm in some towns
After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, corruption and indifference, South Africans are vulnerable to medieval, waterborne diseases and something even more serious:
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Namibia: City Residents Fail to Curb Water Use
WINDHOEK residents have failed to reduce their use of water since January this year, adding to fears that the city's taps could run dry. Figures showing the continued overconsumption of water were revealed
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Africa is running out of water as cities' populations boom
As water supplies in Ghana's capital grew increasingly erratic, Beatrice Kabuki stopped customers from using her grocery store's bathrooms and installed a plastic storage tank at her home. "The taps
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Cameroon: Unsafe Drinking Water- When Obvious Death Trails Young Children
A recent report by the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, warns of other causes of high mortality - other than violence amongst children under 15 trapped in protracted conflicts. It is already
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Guj govt tweaked Central water quality norms: Suresh Mehta
Politician turned activist Suresh Mehta Monday alleged the Gujarat government has tweaked water purity standards, as a result of which more than four crore people in the state are forced to drink contaminated
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England could run short of water within 25 years
England is set to run short of water within 25 years, the chief executive of the Environment Agency has warned. The country is facing the ‘‘jaws of death”, Sir James Bevan said, at the point where water
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Beneath the surface: the state of the world’s water 2019
India tops the list of countries with the most number of people living with water scarcity during at least one part of the year, and is facing the worst water crisis in its history, said a new report by