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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The Sustainable Development Goals report 2017
<p>More than 2 billion people globally are living in countries with excess water stress says the Sustainable Development Goals report 2017. Northern Africa and Western Asia, as well as Central and Southern Asia, experience water stress levels above 60 per cent, indicating the strong probability of future water scarcity.</p>
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2.1 Billion Lack Safe Water Access: WHO Report
Rabat – A report by WHO and UNICEF shows that 2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home and 4.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. While billions of people have gained access to drinking
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Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG baselines
Some 3 in 10 people worldwide, or 2.1 billion, lack access to safe, readily available water at home, and 6 in 10, or 4.5 billion, lack safely managed sanitation, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF.
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Assam flood situation grim; Seven more die, toll rises to 32
Officials sources in Guwahati said the total number of people affected rose to 12.55 lakh on Monday. The floods have caused damage to roads, bridges and other infrastructure in several districts, while
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National water quality sub-mission guidelines to provide safe drinking water in remaining arsenic and fluoride affected habitations in rural India on mission mode
About 76 percent of rural habitations in India have achieved a fully covered (FC) status, under the National Rural Drinking Water Program, with basic minimum service level of 40 liters per capita daily
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Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2016: SDG baseline report
Asia and the Pacific, a region with an impressive development track record, will need to step up its overall development reform effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, according
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NGT puts off Yettinahole hearing to July 24
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) could not take up petitions on the controversial Yettinahole drinking water project due to time constraints on Thursday. The tribunal, headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar,
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Assam floods claim 19 lives
CM reviews situation, orders ex-gratia payment within 48 hrs to kin of deceased The overall flood situation in Assam continues to be grim, even as 19 persons have lost their lives so far in the year’s
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World's water-loss experts aim for Cape's scorched earth
At the rate Cape Town’s winter rainfall is going‚ another hot‚ dry summer will make this year’s drought will look like a Sunday school picnic. Fortunately‚ 500 of the world’s leading experts on water
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Haryana to install ROs, solar panels in all government schools
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has decided to install reverse osmosis (RO) water purification systems in all the government schools across the state from next year. In addition, a decision has also