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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Survey in Seychelles finds some houses with no running water, electricity
(Seychelles News Agency) - Cases of extreme poverty and hardship have been identified in some households in a survey conducted in four central districts on the Seychelles’ main island, Mahe. The incidences
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Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals
Microplastic contamination has been found in tap water in countries around the world, leading to calls from scientists for urgent research on the implications for health. Scores of tap water samples
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Nourishing India: national nutrition strategy
With a benefit to cost ratio of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, there is a well recognized rationale, globally, for investing in Nutrition. The recently published NFHS-4 results reflect some
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Countries need to spend $150 billion a year on clean water, or risk crisis
Nations must pour up to US$150 billion a year into efforts to deliver safe and clean water for all, or risk an economic crisis due to the healthcare and development impacts of people drinking filthy water.
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Access to safe water improves in rural areas
Harare – Zimbabwe continues to prioritise its citizen’s health as evidenced by the increase in access to improved sources of water and sanitation in the rural areas. Failure to access safe and clean
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De Lille squeezes water use even harder with Level 5 restrictions
With immediate effect‚ commercial customers have been ordered to cut their water use by 20% compared with a year ago. Residential customers have been ordered to cap consumption at 20 kilolitres a month
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30,000 residents to benefit from clean water in Misisi
GOVERNMNET says the newly-commissioned water supply improvement project in Misisi township in Lusaka Province will provide clean drinking water to over 30,000 residents. Minister of Water Development,
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Thirsting for justice: transparency and poor people’s struggle for clean water in Indonesia, Mongolia, and Thailand
Industrial facilities release upwards of 400 million tons of toxic pollutants into the world’s waters each year. Yet secrecy around the amount and type of chemicals that companies discharge is still the
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Nigeria: W'Bank- Nigeria, Others Require $150bn to Achieve Clean Water
The World Bank has said countries need to quadruple spending to $150 billion a year to deliver universal safe water and sanitation, helping to reduce childhood disease and deaths while boosting economic
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Nigeria: Changing Lives With Safe Water Supply- Story of Akwa Ibom Communities
Seventy-year-old Aret Sunday Etuk treks a long distance daily to the stream and source of water supply in Ikot Esop village, Nsit Atai Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The mother of eight who