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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US$1 billion to improve Copperbelt sanitation
COPPERBELT Minister Japhen Mwakalombe says Government is investing close to US$1 billion in improving access to water and sanitation in the province.Outlining projects on water that Government is putting
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Water, sanitation and child health: evidence from subnational panel data in 59 Countries
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) investments are widely seen as essential for improving health in early childhood. However, the experimental literature on WASH interventions identifies inconsistent
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Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools: global baseline report 2018
The global effort to achieve sanitation and water for all by 2030 is extending beyond the household to include institutional settings, such as schools, healthcare facilities and workplaces. This has been
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State plans to hike cess on groundwater extraction
Levy will be up to four times the cess being collected by the water resources regulator Fearing the rapid depletion of groundwater, the Maharashtra government will levy a cess on the use of deep wells
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New water policy to be in place by December, says CS Chelugui
Water and Sanitation CS Simon Chelugui has a word with Meru governor Kiraitu Murungi and his Vihiga counterpart Wilber Otichilo during a consultative forum with the Council of Governors on the National
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2,226 out of 3,890 big cats live in India
Marked as an occasion to raise public awareness and support for tiger conservation, Global Tiger Day — also known as the International Tiger Day — will be celebrated on Sunday. Srinivas Reddy, chief conservator
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South Africa: Drinking Water Contaminated With Micro Plastic Pollution in Gauteng
Drinking water in Johannesburg and Tshwane is polluted with microplastics, a new study has found. Substantial amounts of microplastics - bits of plastics less that 5mm in size - were found in the tap
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South Africa: R78 Million Eastern Cape Water Project Fails to Deliver
"In the past 18 months we have had water for only eight months. Last time water was running in our taps was six months ago," says Meko Poswayo, a former steering committee member of the Qamata water project.
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Earth's resources consumed in ever greater destructive volumes
Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in
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Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on National Projects: Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
In February 2008, the Government of India approved a Scheme of National Projects where under it identified 16 major water resource development and irrigation projects that were under the Accelerated Irrigation