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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Haiti PM says cholera outbreak under control
A cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed thousands and been blamed on U.N. peacekeepers was "regrettable" but has been brought under control, the prime minister of the poor Caribbean nation said at
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Animal waste, water quality and human health
Domestic animals contaminate recreational waters and drinking-water sources with excreta and pathogens; but this threat to public health is inadequately understood and is insufficiently addressed in regulations.
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New cell to assess health policy impact
With an aim to determine health impact of existing and new policies which have a bearing on health of population, a dedicated “health impact cell” for conducting analysis is in the anvil. According to the Planning Commission’s proposed document on health, the views of the cell will be taken into consideration before framing or modifying policies. Opining that the impact of policies and programmes of non-health sectors on health remains invisible for long periods.
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Administration fails to provide pure water
The district administration has failed entirely to provide clean potable water to the people of Jabalpur district. The residents are in the grip of gastrointestinal problems as they are compelled to
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Another gastro death in Dasuya: Health authorities blame leaking water pipes
Hoshiarpur: Charan Kaur (85) of Chack Mehra village died of gastroenteritis at a private hospital in Dasuya last evening. Dr Avtar Singh, Civil Surgeon, Hoshiarpur, said at a medical camp at Chack Mehra
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Cholera triggers exodus of Doti villagers
The villages in Doti district hit by cholera epidemic are witnessing an exodus, with villagers migrating to highlands to save their lives. Cholera hit Doti in early June and has claimed 14 lives so
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How safe is potable water in Cachar?
SILCHAR: Though there has been significant increase in facilities for providing drinking water to more and more habitations during the period 2005 - 2010 by the two divisions of public health engineering
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Encephalitis has killed 154 in UP in 2012
The death toll due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in eastern Uttar Pradesh has now reached 154 with three children succumbing to the killer virus on Wednesday night. The three children died at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur where they had been admitted for treatment. A total of 663 encephalitis patients were admitted to different government hospitals of Gorakhpur and Basti districts in 2012 of which 154 died, said additional director, health, of Gorakhpur division, Diwakar Prasad.
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Clean drinking water still a pipe dream
Successive governments in Punjab have been assuring the people of providing them clean drinking water. But, an analysis of water samples collected from various cities of the state narrate an entirely different
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Govt. gears up to tackle seasonal diseases
With the city recording nine cases of dengue, over a hundred cases of malaria and several of cholera this season, the deficient rain seems to be offering no solace to the health department which is now gearing up to take the full onslaught of vector and water-borne diseases that plague Delhi during the season. “The scanty rainfall that the city received coupled with the high humidity levels have resulted in hospitals getting a number of patients with high fever, infections, complications arising out of water contamination and respiratory diseases. Cases of malaria, cholera and gastroenteritis are on the rise, we have also started seeing cases of jaundice,” said Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia.