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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Mumbai hit with diseases after rains
after the monsoon deluge, Mumbai has witnessed an outbreak of diseases such as malaria, dengue and leptospirosis, taking the death toll to 68 on August 2. The pace at which people are dying is
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Climate change
Least polluting countries hit the hardest
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Water-borne crisis
The CAG blames the Orissa government's failure to provide safe potable water for the outbreak of diseases in the State. While natural disasters and starvation are known to take their toll regularly on
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Rash of ailments
Followed by new scheme to track diseases
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Climate change and human health: Risks and responses
This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.
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State sponsors disability
Several UP villages fall prey to crippling disease<br> <font color=navy size=1>(Read full article)</font>
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PILing up pressure
HC tells UP government to submit action taken report on fluorosis incidence
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Dengue - reality bites
The millions affected have many to curse
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Contaminated water
at least 500,000 people were affected by waterborne diseases during 1995-2000 in the union territory of Pondi cherry due to the lack of coordination among the government agencies. According to a
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Official contamination
the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recently acknowledged that it is supplying drinking water highly contaminated by Escherichia coli bacteria, and the pollution levels far surpass the limits