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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Alls not well at IIT-D: Typhoid cases on the rise, say students
New Delhi: Students at IIT-Delhi have been falling ill. The reason, they claim, is the contaminated water in their hostels, which has resulted in many coming down with typhoid. College authorities, however, deny the charge.
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Water-borne diseases strike Totos
Alipurduar, May 6: At least hundred members of the primitive Toto tribe are down with water-borne diseases at Totopara where water is supplied from a reservoir that has not been cleaned up in the past 15 years. Around 1,000 persons live in Totopara, the only place in the country where the community is found.
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Spread of dengue, rat fever feared: Health Ministry warns public
Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry urges people to take precautions against the spread of diseases such as dengue and leptospirosis (rat fever) due to heavy rains. Ministry spokesman W. M. D.
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Suspected cholera: 30 take ill
Contamination of drinking water is said to be the reason for outbreak of epidemic Halebeedu (Hassan), Nearly 30 persons took ill at Dyavappahalli village in the taluk on Friday due to suspected cholera. Public woes: Patients complaining gastroenteritis undergoing treatment at Dyavapanahalli village near Halebeedu, in Hassan on Friday.
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Sri Lanka's Health Ministry warns of a dengue and rat fever epidemics
Sri Lanka's Health Ministry has alerted the public of possible outbreaks of dengue and leptospirosis (rat fever) due to the prevailing rainy weather. According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry 31 deaths from leptospirosis have been recorded among 2,785 cases so far this year.
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Sonia Vihar lives in fear after jaundice scare
New Delhi:Ritesh Singh, a student at a private computer institute, missed almost a month of studies after he was diagnosed with jaundice in March. His neighbour Asha is now down with jaundice. In east Delhi
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Delhi Govt. must test water samples
Senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra has expressed grave concern over reports claiming the presence of superbug in drinking water samples of the city. He said the contaminated water supply had increased the risks of jaundice, diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases. Water-borne diseases In a statement on Friday, Prof.
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Get water samples tested: BJP
Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta on Thursday said people do not trust the Delhi Government's claim that the water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is clean and safe for drinking and demanded that water samples be collected by the Board from all the 12 zones of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for testing. Mr.
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No evidence of presence of superbug
Following the release of a Lancet report alleging presence of a drug-resistant superbug in water supply in the capital, the Union Health Ministry and local authorities held a meeting on Tuesday. Delhi Government health official R.P.
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Vaccination strategies for epidemic cholera in Haiti with implications for the developing world
<p>In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation.