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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Number of diarrhoea patients goes up at District Hospital, Darchula
Number of patients suffering from diarrhoea has increased at the District Hospital, Darchula. Hospital Chief, Dr Rameshwor Devkota, said that around 20 diarrhoea patients visit the hospital daily. The
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Shortage of drinking water raises concern of water-borne diseases in Odisha
Non-maintenance of tube wells and water tanks has forced villagers in Rayagada district to drink contaminated water Shortage of drinking water due to non-maintenance of tube wells and water tanks has forced villagers in Rayagada district in Odisha to drink contaminated water, raising concern of increase in water-borne diseases.
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Inventor battles unsafe drinking water in Africa
Ken Puzey can't forget the cries of a young Haitian girl at a medical clinic where he was volunteering last April. Puzey, 47, is an electrical engineer and founder of QuantaSpec in Burlington, Vt.,
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Government plans to combat jaundice
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) today said the jaundice outbreak in Biratnagar may be brought under control in a week. On April 30, Biratnagar was declared a jaundice-prone area
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Five die, 600 fall ill due to jaundice outbreak in Biratnagar
As many as five people have died and 600 others have been taken ill due to jaundice in various parts of Biratnagar sub-metropolis. The jaundice outbreak spread in Biratnagar some 10 days ago with health
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Vibriocidal antibody responses to a bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine in a phase III trial in Kolkata, India
During the development of a vaccine, identification of the correlates of protection is of paramount importance for establishing an objective criterion for the protective performance of the vaccine. However,
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Experts question civic body’s water collection methods
Experts in the city feel that the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has not been following the norms of collecting water before sending the samples to the laboratory to check for potability. This,
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Diarrhoea situation improves slightly
Following much needed rainfall, diarrhoea situation improved slightly on Monday as declining trend of the waterborne disease has been seen at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research,
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After decades, fluoride issue continues to haunt Nalgonda
Hyderabad: Every election, the ill-effects of fluoride on the people of Nalgonda becomes an issue and the problem has become a bane for ruling governments who have not been able to solve it. As per recent
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Tamenglong gets NRWP scheme
The Manipur Government PHE department has started to implement the National Rural Drinking Water Programme (NRWP) in Tamenglong areas with a targeted water supply of 55 litres per head per day within a