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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Doctors airlifted to disease-hit tribal areas in Chhattisgarh
RAIPUR, 1 AUG: For the first time since November 2000 when the state came into existence, Chhattisgarh government has now been dispatching doctors by choppers to tribals stronghold interiors that has saw dozens of deaths since March due to diarrhoea and other diseases, the health minister said yesterday. ``We are receiving reports regularly about deaths of poor tribals in interiors of Bijapur and
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1,100 dead as Pak goes down under
Peshawar: The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 on Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.
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Diarrhoea claims 2 more lives in Ganjam
BERHAMPUR: With the death of two more persons on Tuesday, the toll due to diarrhoea in the last one week went up to 12 in the tribal- dominated Buratal panchayat under Patrapur block in Ganjam district. Cases of diarrhoea were first reported in Adapathar village and it later spread to Kusamala and Batarasahi.
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Diarrhea outbreak in Nepalgunj claims three lives, more than 130 sick
Three people including two minors have died after suffering from a severe bout of diarrhea in far-western Nepalgunj so far. Jasmin Halwai,5, of Salyanibag, Nepalgunj -5 and Taniya Halwai, 5 of Nepalgunj-4 died as they were being rushed to a nearby hospital while Kalawati Budhathoki, 65, of Tulsipur in Dang District died while undergoing treatment at Teaching Hospital.
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Diarrhoea cases on rise: DMHO
Visakhapatnam, July 26: Stating that major concerns such as cerebral malaria and filarial were showing a downswing, the district medical and health officer (DMHO), Dr Swarajyalakshmi, said that seasonal diseases such as diarrhoea and amoebiosis were showing an upswing.
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Cholera-like epidemic claims one in Ahmednagar, 500 fall sick
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): A cholera-like epidemic is widely spreading in Bhingar and the adjoining camp areas in Ahmednagar and about 500 persons have fallen sick of it, the district civil hospital sources said today. Contaminated water supply and lack of cleanliness said to have caused the epidemic.
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Monsoon brings cheer to water purifier, RO makers
Sales of water purification systems usually pick up with the onset of the monsoon as susceptibility to various diseases, including water-borne ones, rises.
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Gastro fear stalks Sundargarh villages
ROURKELA: Safe drinking water has become a dream for people of several interior pockets of the coal-rich Hemgir block under Sundargarh district where fear of gastroenteritis outbreak is stalking menacingly. Amid several incidents of diarrhoea in remote villages, the Sundargarh district health administration is on its toes to arrest the spread of water-borne diseases.
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Waterborne diseases on rise, roadside food could do you in
Ahmedabad: Water contamination, eating in unhygienic surroundings and careless personal hygiene have spawned a host of bacterial diseases in the city. The health meter of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) strongly packs in a word of caution for denizens this monsoon.