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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A framework to understand gender and structural vulnerability to climate change in the Ganges River Basin: lessons from Bangladesh, India and Nepal
As the reality of climate change becomes accepted in the scientific community, it is critical to continue to understand its impact on the ground, particularly for communities dependent on agriculture and
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on health problems due to contaminated drinking water, 28/11/2014
Question raised in Lok Sabha on health problems due to contaminated drinking water, 28/11/2014.
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NGT notice to Centre, west UP on river pollution
MEERUT: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notice to the Union ministries of health and environment, the UP chief secretary, the central and state pollution control boards and district magistrate
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Delays in reducing waterborne and water-related infectious diseases in China under climate change
Despite China’s rapid progress in improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) access, in 2011, 471 million people lacked access to improved sanitation and 401 million to household piped water. As certain
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Cameroon: Grappling With a Cholera Epidemic in Northern Cameroon
For many years now, cholera has been a common occurrence in the North and far North Regions of Cameroon. Recurrent floods in this part of the country are the main cause of the resurgence of this and other
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150,000 Children Die of Diarrhoea Annually - UNICEF
Kaduna — Over 150,000 children die of diarrhoea, largely caused by unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene practices, the (UNICEF) Representative in Nigeria, Jean Gough, has said. Gough said in a statement
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Cholera Kills Eight in Adamawa
Eight people in Murke village of Song Local Government Area of Adamawa State were confirmed dead by an epidemic suspected to be cholera while about 117 people are currently receiving treatment in public
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People of 45 districts at risk of kala-azar: Study
People of 45 districts are at risk of contracting kala-azar as the fly-borne disease breaks out in different parts of country in recent times, a study report said. The study also said around 3 lakh
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Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in Odisha, India: a cluster-randomised trial
<p>A third of the 2·5 billion people worldwide without access to improved sanitation live in India, as do two-thirds of the 1·1 billion practising open defecation and a quarter of the 1·5
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Lawsuit Against U.N. on the Spread of Cholera Epidemic in Haiti Advances
A federal judge in New York has agreed to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed against the United Nations by advocates for Haitian victims of the deadly cholera epidemic that first appeared on the island