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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Cholera cases on rise in city
Hyderabad, May 31: With the rise in temperature and water contamination in various areas, as many as seven cholera cases have been reported in the city since the beginning of the year. Of these cases, five patients were treated at the Fever hospital in May and were later discharged.
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BIS mark must for packaged water: HC
The Delhi High Court on Monday ruled that no packaged drinking water can be sold in the Capital without the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification mark.
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Water for sustainable urban human settlements
World Water Assessment Programme and UN-Habitat have released a joint Briefing Note 'Water for sustainable urban human settlements' highlighting critical water challenges related to today's unprecedented urban expansion
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Water for health: WHO guidelines for drinking-water quality
The quality of drinking-water is a powerful environmental determinant of health. Drinking-water quality management has been a key pillar of primary prevention for over one-and-a-half centuries and it continues to be the foundation for the prevention and control of waterborne diseases.
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State told to keep action plan ready
Hyderabad, May 30: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Sunday directed the health officials to prepare village-wise action plan to prevent spread of epidemics during monsoon, which is expected to hit the state this week.
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Close illegal bottled water units, says HC
New Delhi: To prevent the spread of water-borne diseases in summer, the Delhi high court has directed the government to tighten the noose around illegal units manufacturing and selling bottled drinking water.
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Suspected cholera claims 2 lives, 12 hospitalised
Two persons including a Ponnappasanthe Gram Panchayat member Mani died of suspected cholera. About 12 persons who are suffering from suspected cholera are getting treated at Government Community Health Centre in Gonikoppa.
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Health teams on the job
The outbreak of water-borne diseases has made the district authorities sit up.
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Typhoid, gastric problems on the rise, doctors say contaminated water to blame
Chandigarh With the dry and hot weather spell gripping the region, cases of gastric problems, typhoid and other related illnesses are pouring in at city hospitals and civil dispensaries. Doctors say more than 10 to 15 such cases are being reported daily at OPDs and most patients are from peripheral areas where the quality of drinking water is under scanner.
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Diarrhoea draws parties' ire
Collector P Muthuveeran said that water from two schemes, Odaipatti Combined Drinking Water scheme and Kombai, Thevaram, and Pannaipuram Combined Drinking Water Scheme had got contaminated. Uthamapalayam and Chinnamanoor were affected }