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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Water supply from Naini lake to be capped at 6 million L now
Nainital: After the water supply from Naini Lake was reduced to 8 million litres per day from 14 million litres, in order to make sure it’s water levels didn’t dip as dangerously as they did last year,
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Malawi: Search for New Urban Water Sparks Conflict in Parched Malawi
Mulanje — An effort to shore up water to Blantyre is drawing protests from people who say "we can't serve Blantyre before we serve ourselves" With increasingly prolonged droughts threatening worsening
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Sudan: Acute Water Crisis in North Darfur Capital
Members of the North Darfur parliament has urged the state authorities to develop plans to ease the acute shortage of drinking water in the capital El Fasher. The parliament's Services Committee demanded
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Vijayawada: Trace metals in groundwater
Industrial effluents pollute water which can cause serious health problems. Vijayawada: Beware, consumption of untreated water directly from the borewells in Vijayawada can seriously damage your health.
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Nairobi Water Problems to Persist Until 2026
Nairobi — The Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company, says water rationing in Nairobi County is expected to persist until the year 2026. The company's Managing Director Nahashon Muguna said completion of
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For clean drinking water in Kenya, just add sunshine
EMUCHIMI, Kenya, Feb 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a sunny afternoon in Western Kenya, Eunice Shigali filled a 10 litre jerrycan with water, then unfolded it like a suitcase and placed it in the
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Drought-hit Cape Town dreads 'Day Zero' when taps will run dry
A tough water-saving regime and the generosity of farmers have given South Africa’s main tourist hub welcome respite from a severe drought and helped push back a dreaded “Day Zero” when Cape Town’s taps
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Mozambique: Water Restrictions Stay Put for Maputo
Cape Town — Mozambique authorities have announced a return to water restrictions of 2017 due to the scarcity of water in the Pequenos Libombos reservoir, Verdade Online reports. "We are going to retake
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People in African cities are taking charge of their water supplies- and it’s working
The world has made tremendous progress in bridging the gap between water supply and demand. But there’s a long way still to go. In a 2017 joint monitoring report UNICEF and the World Health Organisation
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Rationing system put in place: No water for 600 families in Nainital
NAINITAL: A water rationing system implemented in January to save Naini lake – the main source of water for Nainital – has left around 600 families in the lake town almost without water. Ever since