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
Waterborne diseases
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Garbage in Nullah causing environmental pollution
The garbage in drain water in Nullah's flowing in twin cities are causing environmental pollution, besides posing threats to human health. The residents living near these Nullah's said that these garbage mixed filthy water also increase the threats to the health of the animals and also human being in case of its direct or indirect consumption.
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Diarrhoea spreads amid water crisis
People in the remote areas of the south and south-eastern districts, inundated by tidal surges associated with cyclone Aila on May 25, are still facing acute crisis of drinking water, food and medicine amid an alarming spread of water borne diseases.
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In Aila's wake, saline for Rs 70 a bottle, lives are much cheaper
Ravik Bhattacharya Lahiripur (Sunderban Island): Nine-year-old Sandeepa Gharami survived Cyclone Aila, but succumbed in its aftermath. She died on an embankment near Lahiripur on Friday after several days of continuous vomiting and diarrhoea. She received no medical care. Her parents buried her by the river.
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After Aila, disease stalks Sunderbans
KOLKATA, 30 MAY: With cattle and human corpses floating in water bodies in the wake of cyclone Aila, the threat of skin and water-borne enteric diseases and dysentry are looming large in the Sunderbans.
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U.S. funding is insufficient to address the human health impacts of and public health responses to climate variability & change
In this commentary the authors summarize the health risks of climate change in the United States and examine the extent of federal funding devoted to understanding, avoiding, preparing for, and responding to the human health risks of climate change.
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Now, dengue begins guerrilla war in Lanka
Discussions held on the incidence of dengue at the Health Ministry revealed that the virus had mutated putting paid to all efforts to rid the country of the disease. Deputy Director General (Public Health) Dr. Palitha Mahipala said the Health Ministry had been hitherto tackling the
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Waterborne diseases cost nation Rs120 billion
Waterborne diseases
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100 percent sanitation coverage for all by 2015: Afridi
Minister for Environment, Hamidullah Jan Afridi Thursday announced that there would be 100 per cent sanitation coverage by 2015, and stressed the need to devise a three pronged strategy to achieve this target.
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Shame or subsidy revisited: social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India
<p>The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a sanitation campaign that combines “shaming” (i.e. emotional motivators) with subsidies for poor households in rural Orissa,
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Climate Health Costs: Bug-Borne Ills, Killer Heat
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.