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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Broken pipes could be cause of jaundice outbreak
AHMEDABAD: Hirawadi area in Thakkarbappanagar has been hit by jaundice this year. In just a fortnight, the area saw more than 350 jaundice cases.
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Rural healthcare in Tripura faces challenge
Despite efforts to improve healthcare facilities in rural areas, communicable diseases like meningitis, malaria and diarrhoea continue to haunt the tribal hamlets of Tripura.
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Diarrhoea kills one, KMC faces the heat
One person died and seven others were admitted following reports of a diarrhoea outbreak because of suspected water contamination in Ward 20 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) over the past few days. Civic officials are yet to determine the cause of diarrhoea.
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Imphal hit by water scarcity
IMPHAL, March 23
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Red tape led to typhoid outbreak
Ahmedabad: Bureaucratic red tape resulted in 100 children suffering from typhoid and one succumbing to it. Outbreak of typhoid was caused by contamination of water and lack of proper sanitation facilities at three villages in Bavla.
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After Bavla it could be Sanand
Ahmedabad: It's a ticking time bomb. After water contamination triggered a typhoid outbreak in three villages of Bavla taluka of Ahmedabad district, it could well be the turn of 65 more in Sanand taluka alone.
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Caution against epidemic outbreak
Kaushik Chakravarthy, Bangalore, DH News Service: Doctors and Public Health Bodies in the city are preparing themselves for summer outbreaks and have suggested a series of precautions. A Joint Monitoring Committee comprising health officers of the BBMP, executive engineers from the BWSSB and officials from the BMP has been set up to deal with epidemics.
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Over 25 affected by diarrhoea
PARADIP: More than 25 persons of coastal villages of Balikuda block have been affected by diarrhoea following consumption of contaminated water. Sources said 20 to 25 coastal villages under Balikuda and Ersama blocks are reeling under acute water crisis as a result of which, people are forced to consume contaminated water of canals and ponds.
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Diarrhoea outbreak sparks panic
At least 200 people, most of them women and children, have been affected. Residents have attributed the disease to water contamination, as there are no proper drinking water facilities Water from the lake, which is sometimes brackish, is pumped into a tank, from where it is made available to the residents through taps on the ground
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After diarrheoa, KMC picks on KMDA
KOLKATA, Feb. 20: Unable to pull up its own people for their failure to prevent an outbreak of diarrhoea in areas of Garden Reach due to drinking water contamination, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to put the Garden Reach Waterworks, under Kolkata Metropolitan Water & Sanitation Authorities, a nodal agency of KMDA, at fault.