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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Dengue death toll reaches seven
The four-year old boy who was being treated for dengue fever at the Intensive Critical Care Unit (ICCU) in Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) died last night. This is the seventh child to die of the disease this year and the fifth to die since the rapid spread of the disease since last week. An official from the dengue control task-force revealed that all arrangements had been made to t
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Evaluating household water treatment options: health-based targets and microbiological performance specifications
<p>This document by the World Health Organisation, for the first time, sets forth global criteria to evaluate whether a household water treatment option reduces waterborne pathogens sufficiently to protect health.
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Effect of deep tube well use on childhood diarrhoea in Bangladesh
The objective was to determine whether the installation of deep tube wells to reduce exposure to groundwater arsenic in rural Bangladesh had an effect on the incidence of childhood diarrhoeal disease.
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Over 9,600 dengue cases, 73 deaths
Health Ministry Epidemiology Unit statistics reveal that 9,660 dengue cases and 73 deaths had been reported from all parts of the country by Tuesday, sources said. According to the sources the number of dengue cases reported until June 28 was 2,863. "The number of deaths reported during the same period was 10. There were 1,956 dengue cases and 19 deaths in May.
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Dengue on the rise again in Maldives- CCHDC
Centre for Community Health and Disease Control (CCHDC) has said that dengue fever is on the rise in Male
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Dengue death toll hits 3 in 2 days as Maldives sets mosquito control programme
The death toll from dengue fever in the Maldives has reached three in two days with the latest death recorded this morning. Alhan Ahmed of Dhilbahaaruge/Baa atoll Thulhaadhoo, aged two and a half years, died at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) around 3am today after he was transferred from ADK Hospital for further treatment.
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Hyderabadis sick of dirty water
With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens. Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), the Institute of Health Systems (IHS), the Water Board and the Greate
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Cholera Spreads to a Crowded Capital
A cholera outbreak that has already killed 32 people in Congo has spread to the capital, Kinshasa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Three cases of cholera, a waterborne disease, have been confirmed since last week in Kinshasa, which has a population of at least nine million people, many of whom live in cramped, unsanitary conditions.
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Ganga water not fit even for farming
OUR BUREAU New Delhi A test conducted on samples of water of the Ganges, lifted at nine sites, has revealed that it is not fit for use even in farming, let alone for human use. The Delhi- based Shriram Institute for Industrial Research and STAR News carried out the research by lifting samples from sites as diverse as Gangotri in Uttarakhand and Malda in West Bengal and compared them with sample
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Waterlogged Kuttanad thirsts for drinking water
Water in the Vembanad lake and Pampa river turns saline ALAPPUZHA: Even as the threat of floods that loomed over the water-logged Kuttanad seems to have receded, the people are now up against another recurrent scourge.