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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Gastroenteritis patient dies; many hospitalized
A man died while many people were hospitalized due to gastroenteritis in Luddan on Wednesday. A gastro patient, Noor Ahmed, 50, was being taken to Luddan rural health centre (RHC) but he died just before reaching the RHC. A dispenser told Dawn that scores of gastro patients were brought to the RHC. The health department has established a camp in this area and started vaccinating the people.
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City poor reeling under potable water shortage
Water, Water, everywhere
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Sanitation and hygiene in focus at World Water Week'
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - As the world races to find solutions to the planet's climate woes, some 2,500 experts meet in Stockholm this week to put the spotlight on one of the most pressing issues, that of water resources, at World Water Week. The theme of this year's annual gathering is sanitation and hygiene issues. Almost half of the world's population lacks proper toilet facilities, a situation that can have dire consequences on public health and which poses a challenge to resolve since water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
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Community Sanitation Campaign: A study in Haryana
This article presents a case study of a successful Community-led Total Sanitation Campaign from Bhiwani district in Haryana. Social acceptance of hygienic sanitation practices has led to enormous benefits for the village community.
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Muddy Water
About 1.2 billion people in the world live with inadequate access to safe drinking water. Over 2.6 billion do not have access to sanitation facilities In developing countries 80 per cent of the health problems are linked to inadequate water and sanitation, claiming the lives of nearly 1.8 million children every year Experts concur the problem is
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Improving sanitation (Editorial)
The world is not on track to meet one of its key millennium development goals
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0.2m children under five die of water-borne diseases annually'Atif Khan
Around 99 percent of water supplied to the population is unfit for human consumption due to which over 200,000 children under five die from diarrhoea, typhoid fever, cholera and hepatitis A and E every year. Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) scientist Hifza Rasheed said this during a five-day training workshop titled "The challenges of sustainable water supply services' organised at the PCRWR Headquarters here on Monday. Sponsored by the Dutch government, the workshop was attended by a large number of mangers of water supply agencies from across the country.
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Reversing impurity
Manjit Kaur could hardly have believed it but she has been cured of a two-decade-old list of ailments. Her cure has come neither through a doctor nor a stack of pills, but instead from a community-based safe drinking water project commissioned in her native Muktsar district, Punjab, four months ago. Now Kaur, 45, is among the first in queue to fetch a 20-litre can of treated water in her village twice a day. It was contaminated water that gave her joint pains and bleeding gums. Now that the water is clean, Kaur's health is reviving.
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24/7 water supply revisited
Why do the poor pay the highest price for water and the rich, who have piped connection, get the inexpensive water in our cities? Why is there an outbreak of water borne disease frequently due to polluted water? What is lacking: There is lack of investment to price water price correctly or repair the system.
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Psychiatric diseases, contaminated water still continue to haunt quake victims in Uri
Musavirr Wani URI, July 24: Three years down the line since the killer quake hit Uri and its adjacent villages almost 75 percent people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric problems. After visiting several villages of Uri different people narrated different tales. In some cases either people face gastroenteritis or psychiatric problems. But overall almost 85 percent youngsters are caught up. While talking to The Kashmir times Shahzad of Salamabad said, "I feel as these