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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Unsafe water kills most Pakistanis
It is neither terrorism nor natural disasters but the unavailability of safe drinking water which leads to the highest number of deaths in Pakistan. According to the UN, consumption of contaminated
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Zambia Says New Cases Dropping in Deadly Cholera Outbreak
Zambia says it has made progress in containing a cholera outbreak that has killed about 70 people in the southern African nation since October. Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya this week said there
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County government to offer slums cheap bottled water
Slum residents could soon win the fight against cholera after the county government announced plans to introduce special-package water. In the recent past, poor hygiene has led to cholera that has left
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Zambia relaxes restrictions as cholera outbreak slows
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambia on Sunday relaxed rules imposed to curb the spread of cholera as the number of new cases being reported has halved, Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said. Schools and some
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Zambia relaxes cholera regulations
Zambia has now decided to relax regulations it imposed to curb the spread of cholera. Schools and some markets will be allowed to re-open as newly reported cases have significantly decreased.
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Zambia slum residents riot over rules to curb cholera outbreak
LUSAKA (Reuters) - Residents in a slum in Zambia’s capital are rioting over a ban on street vending that was imposed to control a cholera outbreak, the government said on Friday. Local Government and
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205 water-borne cases in Ahmedabad
A health report of the city revealed by the health department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) states that in the first week of January, 205 water-borne cases were reported by AMC-run hospitals.
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Diarrhoea outbreak: Health dept on vigil
Thiruvananthapuram: The health department has begun close monitoring at Pulluvila in the wake of diarrhoea cases being reported in the panchayat. As many as 21 cases were reported at Pulluvila on Wednesday.
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Zambia deploys army to fight cholera outbreak
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has dispatched the military to help fight a cholera outbreak, which has killed 41 people in the capital, Lusaka, and affected more than 1,500 others since September. In
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Cholera-like symptom spreads in Varthur labour sheds, epidemic claims three lives
Panic swept the labour sheds at Belagere in Varthur where a cholera-like epidemic has claimed the lives of three and left 19 ill. Agitated labourers locked up BBMP medical staff camping at the sheds