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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80pc Pakistanis drink contaminated water, Senate told
ISLAMABAD: More than 80pc Pakistanis consume contaminated and unsafe water, Minister for Science and Technology Rana Tanveer informed the Senate on Tuesday.Responding a question from PPP Senator Sherry
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Water supplies in Syria deteriorating fast due to conflict, experts warn
War-torn Syria’s water supplies are deteriorating fast, triggering migration and disease and stoking a pollution crisis in neighbouring Lebanon, hydrologists and humanitarian groups have warned. “Water
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Dipayal locals reeling under water crisis
The locals at Tikha of Silgadi Municipality have been compelled to borrow drinking water for survival in Doti. The municipality was declared an Open Defecation Free zone some two months ago. However,
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Experts warn against drinking unpackaged drinking water
NAGPUR: While unpackaged 'drinking' water has found a good place in the market with hospitals, banks, health clubs and caterers being its main consumers, experts warn that consumption of water which is
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More than 300 million at risk of life-threatening diseases from dirty water: UN
More than 300 million people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of life-threatening diseases like cholera and typhoid due to the increasing pollution of water in rivers and lakes, the United
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Tamil Nadu outfits protest Kerala move to build dam on Siruvani river
Coimbatore: Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (TPDK) on Thursday said it will block the Kerala-bound trains and supplies of vegetables and all essential commodities to its neighbouring state if the Kerala
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State moots Rs 45,000-cr drinking water project
The state government is planning a mega project to meet drinking water needs of all the districts in the state. The scheme is estimated to cost Rs 45,000 crore. A proposal in this regard will be submitted
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More than half of south Asia's groundwater too contaminated to use – study
Salinity and arsenic affect 60% of underground supply across vast Indo-Gangetic Basin, according to research published in Nature Geoscience Fifteen to twenty million wells extract water from the Indo-Gangetic
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DJB plans piped water for all by 2017
To make 'right to water' accessible to all in the city, Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has decided to provide individual water connections to every household in jhuggi-jhopri clusters and villages, and even in
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NGT summons DM, CMO of Baghpat over potable water
MEERUT: Taking cognizance of the continuous failure on the part of the administration to provide potable water to poor farmers of six districts of western UP, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday