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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Despite ban, manual scavenging still on in Karnal village
Seven-year-old Anjali, a frail girl walking with a bucket of sewage and waste water for discharging it in an open field, is a pitiful sight. This has become the fate of several others at Bhagpati village and adjoining areas, where the residents have been forced to become a scavenger, flushing out dirty water four times a day.
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50% of patients across the globe suffer from water-borne diseases
Social activist Jacqueline Lundquist tells Madhur Tankha that “in the U.S., people get drinking water even in their bathrooms” Jacqueline Lundquist, a social activist and the wife of the former United States Ambassador to India Richard Celeste, is now on an ambitious mission to provide unadulterated water to people living across the country, especially in rural areas.
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Sans water, Sialkot abounds in diseases
Six years have passed but there was no implementation of the then Punjab government's plan to ensure smooth provision of potable water to Sialkot city thus the people are suffering from several water-borne
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Waterborne disease continues reducing in rural areas
The recurrence of waterborne disease continues reducing everywhere in the rural areas as a result of effective activities being conducted by the concerned government and non-government organisations in
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Water–borne diseases claim 109 lives in Longding
Following the recent outbreak of water–borne diseases like malaria, jaundice, typhoid in certain pockets of the newly created Longding district which reportedly claimed more than hundred lives, a series
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Awareness and IEC exposure on sanitation/hygiene among the rural people
Poor sanitation is one of the most embarrassments of the world. Open defecation, cheap sanitation and hygiene practices claim the health and lives of human beings and creates an unfriendly environment.
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5 year efficacy of a bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata, India: a cluster-randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Efficacy and safety of a two-dose regimen of bivalent killed whole-cell oral cholera vaccine (Shantha Biotechnics, Hyderabad, India) to 3 years is established, but long-term efficacy is not. We aimed to
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Arunachal sounds alert, epidemic claim several lives
The Arunachal Pradesh government has sounded alert in Longding district following outbreak of malaria and jaundice which, has taken an epidemic form claiming scores of lives since past several days.
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People being interested in using eco-san toilets in Nachole
People of four unions of Nachole upazila in Chapainawabganj district have been showing interest in using eco-san toilets as non-government organization NGO Forum with the association of another non-government
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Mobile drinking water facility in Ganjam
With large parts of the calamity-hit Ganjam struggling for access to safe drinking water, a mobile drinking water initiative has brought succour to the Phailin-hit populace. i-PURE, a mobile water treatment