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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All Dhaka city people yet to get safe drinking water
The Awami League-led government is yet to fulfil its electoral pledge of supplying pure drinking water to the entire population by 2011, failing even to provide safe drinking water to all the citizens
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Focus on solid waste management
Management of slaughter house waste and other solid wastes are among the top projects that have a common thread among the people in the district. According to the projects that have been sent to the district Health as part of the Comprehensive Health Plan under the 12th Five-Year Plan, a number of villages and towns in the district have taken it up as one of the leading health-hazard projects.
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PCRWR report: arsenic found in seven bottled-water brands
Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) Friday revealed that arsenic, a major cause of cancer and kidney diseases was found in seven brands of bottled water. Safe limit of arsenic in
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Anaemia in low-income and middle-income countries
Anaemia aff ects a quarter of the global population, including 293 million (47%) children younger than 5 years and 468 million (30%) non-pregnant women. In addition to anaemia’s adverse health consequences,
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Diarrhoea outbreak kills 3 in Burdwan, 32 others affected
BURDWAN, 29 NOV: Diarrhoea outbreak claimed three lives and affected 32 others in Kulti and Memari blocks in the last six days. The district epidemic cell officials have visited the affected villages and
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222 hill bound Tripura locations running out of water
Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to seek Centre’s support for creating sustainable water sources in 222 locations of the state during upcoming dry spell and asked the drinking water and sanitation
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GoM meets to deal with water-borne disease AES
The Group of Ministers (GoM), set up to work out an action plan to deal with the deadly Japanese Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that have claimed over 850 lives so far this year across
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AMC readying master plan to fight dengue
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aims to ready the master plan to combat the outbreak of diseases three months in advance. Talking to reporters, AMC commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra
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Two die, over hundred sick as Saptari village reels under diarrhea outbreak
At least two people have died after suffering from a serious bout of diarrhea in Tilathi of Saptari district Friday. The diarrhea outbreak has also made more than hundred people in the remote village sick
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Kakinada locals worried over pollution from edible oil refineries
A number of edible oil refineries have been established in the vicinity of Kakinada port during the past decade, generating employment in the port town and stimulating economic growth, but there are complaints