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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Strength of water supply network questionable
Several mega water projects involving heavy investments are being implemented to ensure adequate water supply to all areas of the metropolis but the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board has failed to surmount the problem of the absence of a matching distribution network meant for general consumers. The existing network consists of undersized pipelines considering the requirement of the estimated fl
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Cholera Deaths Up in Haiti, With Worst to Come
The death toll in Haiti
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Hygiene, sanitation, and water: Forgotten foundations of health
Globally, around 2.4 million deaths (4.2% of all deaths) could be prevented annually if everyone practised appropriate hygiene and had good, reliable sanitation and drinking water. These deaths are mostly of children in developing countries from diarrhoea and subsequent malnutrition, and from other diseases attributable to malnutrition.
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Water supply and health
A safe, reliable, affordable, and easily accessible water supply is essential for good health. Yet, for several decades, about a billion people in developing countries have not had a safe and sustainable water supply.
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21 cholera deaths in 2 weeks worry Assam govt
With as many as 21 deaths occurring due to an outbreak of diarrhoeal diseases, including cholera, in a cluster of tea estates in Sonitpur district over two weeks, the Assam government on Monday decided to file cases against three tea estates for gross negligence of healthcare of labourers.
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Sulabh approach and solutions to water and sanitation - Inadequacies and related problems
2.6 billion people all over the world lack adequate toilets and hygiene facilities. Good sanitation ensures public health and contributes to economic development by preventing loss of human days caused by ill health and deaths due to diseases like jaundice, cholera and diarrhoea.
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Impact of a citywide sanitation program in Northeast Brazil on intestinal parasites infection in young children
The importance of an uncontaminated water supply and proper sanitation in controlling enteric infections, as well as contributing to poverty eradication, has been recognized by the international community.
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Another plague
A ROW of public latrines stands near the park Sylvia Ren
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Sanitation plan in the offing
BHUBANESWAR: Denizens of the Capital City spend a whopping ` 50 lakh daily on treatment of water-borne diseases. Sounds incredible? That is what a report of the Urban Development Department says. What
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Cholera kills 16 in Assam tea gardens
An outbreak of cholera in North Assam