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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Zimbabwe: Council Water Deemed Unsafe
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has condemned Gweru City Council water as unsafe for drinking amid reports more people continue succumbing to typhoid following an outbreak of the disease in Gweru
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Government considering ban on microbeads after Gauteng drinking water is found to be contaminated
The government has set up a task team to look at imposing a total ban on microbeads – the tiny plastic beads used in cosmetics, toothpaste and sandblasting. This comes after a Water Research Commission
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Twenty Third Report on Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries: Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18)
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18) present the Twenty Third Report on “Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries.” The Committee (2016 -17) had taken up the
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Polluted Vaal River water should be avoided: government
Residents have been advised not to drink water from the Vaal River due to pollution. Officials say various levels of government are tackling the crisis. Water and sanitation department spokesperson
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Two Eastern Cape towns to start 'water shedding' as dam empties
Water will be cut off in the towns of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape from Monday and only switched on again for short periods to stretch what little is left in the Kouga Dam, the municipality
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Asam Songrami Mancha Slams Dispur for Delay in Drinking Water Projects
GUWAHATI: The Asam Songrami Mancha (ASOM) criticized the State government at Dispur for its mysterious silence and apathy over the unprecedented delay in completing numbers of drinking water projects undergoing
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No beneficiaries identified by mineral fund trust: Study
A study of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) funds expenditure, that are collected from mining companies, by Centre for Science and Environment shows beneficiaries have not been identified in any of the
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Tourist magnet Ladakh facing water scarcity
For 75-year-old Tsering Angdo, today’s Ladakh is entirely different from the world of his childhood in the cold Himalayan desert. Back then, he and everyone he knew would take water supply for granted.
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Michigan governor and state dismissed from Flint water lawsuit
A federal judge on Wednesday removed Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a former mayor of Flint, along with the state government from a list of defendants in a class-action lawsuit over the Flint water crisis.
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Nigeria: 71% of Nigerians Have No Access to Water- Minister
Abeokuta — Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu has stated that access of Nigerians to pipe-borne water has dropped from 32 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2015, adding that about 71 percent