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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Govt denies water in Shimla contaminated
The Opposition Congress in Himachal today accused the government of playing with health of the citizens by supplying contaminated drinking water in several parts of Shimla and sought immediate steps before locals fall victim to serious water-borne diseases like cholera. Leader of Opposition Vidya Stokes, who raised the issue through a call attention motion, alleged that there was total lack of
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Indian cities, sanitation and the state: the politics of the failure to provide
The environmental problems confronting Indian cities today have arisen because millions of people have been forced to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation and other basic urban services.
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Ill-health and poverty: a literature review on health in informal settlements
This paper reviews the literature on health in the informal settlements (and “slums”) that now house a substantial proportion of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Although this highlights
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India to get diarrhoea vaccine soon
Labs Set To Begin Final Trials Of First Indigenously Developed Oral Drops New Delhi: India is in the final stages of developing the country
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Foundation to Fund Two Cos for Vaccine Research
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to develop and sell vaccines for pneumonia, diarrhea. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund two Indian firms
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Uncertainties associated with quantifying climate change impacts on human health: A case study for diarrhea
<p>Climate change is expected to have large impacts on health at low latitudes where droughts and malnutrition, diarrhea, and malaria are projected to increase. The main objective of this study was to indicate a method to assess a range of plausible health impacts of climate change while handling uncertainties in a unambiguous manner.
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Aid distributed under CMs spl scheme at Udalguri
UDALGURI, Feb 22
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Warming may lead to spurt in water-borne diseases
Washington: Global warming could spur the growth of toxic algae and bacteria in the world
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre device to make dirty water potable
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) has invented a device that will ensure safe drinking water for victims during natural calamities like floods. It has developed a
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Diarrhoea outbreak: 73 affected in Salepur
SALEPUR: As many as 73 people have been affected by diarrhoea in Baselikata village under Narasinghpur block.