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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Diarrhoea kills 28 in Patrapur
BERHAMPUR: Health officials are camping in remote villages in Patrapur block following detection of presence of Vibrio bacteria in blood samples of patients suffering from diarrhoea. As many as 28 persons, including eight children, have died of diarrhoea and hundreds affected by the disease in the block. Though health officials had checked the disease from spreading further, they had reportedly not taken any measures to prevent it.
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50-yr-old dies of leptospirosis, rain diseases toll 41
Mumbai, July 09 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's epidemiology cell recorded another death due to leptospirosis, taking the overall death toll due to monsoon-related ailments to 41. A 50-year-old man, a resident of Nal Bazar, succumbed to leptospirosis on Wednesday morning at 2 am. He was admitted to the BYL Nair Hospital at Mumbai Central on Thursday.
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The Least Green Country On Earth
Several hundred head of camel, sheep and cattle shoved and bustled in the blistering afternoon heat to get closer to the well. Many of them were crying and braying from thirst. Nearby, also waiting their turn, half a dozen Touareg nomads sat on donkeys carrying empty yellow water containers. Some had traveled a day or more just to get to this well.
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Monsoon ailments: Rise in typhoid cases in city
Mumbai, July 2 Doctors caution against self-medication, advise immediate medical intervention Besides large number of cases of leptospirosis, dengue, malaria, gastroenteritis and viral fever, doctors across the city are also seeing a small, but significant, surge in typhoid cases. "Pre-monsoons we saw hardly one typhoid case in 15 days. But now we are getting at least two per week apart from the usual viral fever, malaria and sporadic dengue cases,' said Dr Jayesh Lele, a private practitioner in Malad.
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Water pollution and food contamination in relation to health hazards: Food safety as a global challenge
The present article deals with the extent of water resources, sources and causes of water pollution, impact of water pollution on human health, and challenges, development and future perspectives of food safety.
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Monsoon ailments: State health dept claims to have done well
WHILE the Mumbai civic administration is dealing with an increase in cases of rain-related ailments this monsoon, the state health administration has had to tackle fewer instances of disease outbreaks so far. Since April, there have been only 15 deaths in the other parts of the state due to water-borne and vector-borne diseases. Nine of these deaths are due to water-borne diseases like gastroenteritis and diarrhoea, and six due to vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue.
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Lack of hygiene, unsafe water kills 7.8L every yr'
Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: One in every 10 diseases and 6% of all deaths globally are caused by unsafe water and improper hygiene. In India, 1.03 crore people die annually of which, nearly 7.5%
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Four fall victim to gastro in Arifwala
Three women and a youth died of gastroenteritis in the last two days in Goriya and Farid Shah villages, Arifwala tehsil. Reports say that residents of these villages have been complaining about stomach pain to local nazims, but they have never taken it seriously. Located under the shadow of Arifwala, both villages have no Basic Health Unit. Those died were identified as Meena Bibi, 30, Nazira Bibi, 29, Kausar Bibi and Kashif.
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All districts to get water labs
The state government will set up laboratories soon at all district headquarters in the state for water testing to provide safe drinking water to people after it was found that most diseases are caused by polluted drinking water. These laboratories will be funded by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and set up by the Indian Institute of Public Health, Union ministry of health. One mobile unit will be placed at the nine ITDAs in the state to collect water samples regularly from interior areas of the Agency.
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BMC tightens noose over monsoon-related diseases
THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has gained control over the exceeding Malaria cases from past few days. There was not a single case of Malaria registered on Thursday, informed Shubhada Gudekar, Chairperson of Public Health Committee. She said that as soon as a hospital receives a case of Malaria or any other monsoon related disease, they inform the BMC who in turn, take immediate steps like fogging (spraying pesticide) the place suspected to be infected with mosquitoes. The BMC has been taking measures but people need to take precautions in their area.