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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Mobile labs to test water, food quality
Hyderabad, Oct. 6: With instances of infectious and water-borne diseases rising in the state, the century-old Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) at Narayanguda here is planning to launch a new project with 14 mobile laboratories to provide diagnostic services at the doorsteps. These mobile labs will monitor water quality, test food for toxicity and diagnose diseases.
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Number of patients rising in Sialkot: Gastroentritis
Two children have reportedly died of gastroenteritis while the flow of patients is rising at state-run and private hospitals in the district. Reports said one-year-old Qasim Ali of Ghakhar Mandi died at a private hospital in Daska on Sunday. His body was shifted to Ghakhar Mandi from Daska for burial. In Pasrur, six-year-old Khalid also died of gastroenteritis.
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Faisalabad village hit by gastroenteritis: Over 500 affected
A man died of gastroenteritis while at least 500 people, including women and children, were affected in Chak 62-JB, Chanan Ke, on Jhang Road, here on Thursday. Scores of gastroenteritis patients were brought to the one-room state-run rural health centre (RHC) in Chanan Ke during the last two days. However, owing to lack of space at RHC all victims were treated at their houses.
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Climate change and urban children: impacts and implications for adaptation in low- and middle-income countries
This paper discusses the particular and disproportionate risks to urban children in poverty from various aspects of climate change, both extreme events and changing means. It explores the potential impacts on children's health, learning and psychosocial well-being, and considers the implications of family coping strategies for children.
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Safe water as the key to global health
Access to safe and affordable water is considered to be a basic human right, yet the universal reality does not reflect this principle. A lack of adequate capacity and financing, and national policies which often rely on unsustainable use of water resources, prevent effective and sustainable provision of safe water and sanitation.
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Gastroenteritis hits Kachho
One child died and 17 people suffering from gastroenteritis in some villages of the Kachho belt were admitted to hospital on Sunday. Sadam 13, of village KT Wassan, died of gastroenteritis. Condition of Mohammad Urs, Allah Dino Rodhnani, Haji Allah Bux Rodhnani, Mohammad Ramzan, Sakina Laghari and Mohammad Omer was stated to be serious.
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Viral, cholera on the rise
Hyderabad, Sept. 21: Due to continuing rains in the state, viral fever and cholera cases are on rise in several areas including the state capital. Poor sanitation and contaminated water supply are cited as main reasons by the health experts for the spread of the water-borne diseases.
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Diarrhoea breaks out in Netrakona
Diarrhoea has broken out in all the six upazilas of Netrakona with the recession of flood water. At least 650 people, mainly old men and children, have been attacked with the waterborne disease in the last one week, according to sources at the district civil surgeon
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Map of liquid sorrow
IN the tsunami of December 2004, people heard a strange, deep rumbling before columns of the sea came in. In 2008, the people of north Bihar had no such warning. The river was silent and swift, rising from a deceptive two feet to nearly eight feet in a matter of hours, trapping lakhs of people in remote villages in the districts of Purnea, Madhepura, Araria, Supaul, Saharsa and Kul.
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Enteric cases cross 200
KOLKATA, Sept. 10: A day after 173 people were suspected to have been affected with enteric in Rabindra Pally and Purba Phulbagan areas of Jadavpur, over 50 more people were detected with similar symptoms today. This took the toll of affected people to over 200. While the leakage in the water supply line, which is suspected to have caused the outbreak in the area, has been repaired by engineers of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), the water supplied to the area has still not been declared fit for consumption. Engineers said that chlorination of the water is being carried out.