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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Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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Assessing pathogen risk to swimmers at non-sewage impacted recreational beaches
The risk of gastrointestinal illness to swimmers from fresh sewage and non-sewage fecal sources at recreational beaches was predicted using quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA).
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Jaundice outbreak linked to contamination of drinking water with sewerage: Bindal
The Himachal government accepted in the Assembly on Wednesday that the jaundice outbreak in Shimla was an outcome of the contamination of drinking water with sewerage water in various residential localities.
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High hopes for oral cholera vaccine
A trial of a new oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata is promising but, as Patralekha Chatterjee reports, a vaccine is only one weapon in the battle against the disease.
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Over 160 cases of hepatitis E reported
More than 160 persons in the state capital have tested positive for hepatitis E --- a liver problem caused by consumption of water contaminated by sewerage --- since the outbreak of the disease in mid-January, according to officials.
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Orissa to get Indian Institute of Public Health
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government today signed an MoU with the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) for establishment of an Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) in Orissa.
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Water quality of the Chhoti Gandak River using principal component analysis, Ganga Plain, India
Chhoti Gandak is a meandering river which originates in the terai area of the Ganga Plain and serves as a lifeline for the people of Deoria district, Uttar Pradesh. It travels a distance of about 250 km and drains into Ghaghara near Gothani, Siwan district of Bihar.
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NICD reports on water samples show no contamination in jaundice-hit localities
Possibility of contamination in the past cannot be ruled out: IDSP surveillance officer The reports of water samples drawn from Shimla
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Water for all
This document is an educational booklet on water management, published by Utthan, which works towards empowering women's groups to seek clean and adequate quality of water for all. The booklet provides background information on water as an important natural resource and the importance of protecting and maintaining the quality and quantity of this natural resource.
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Protecting health from climate change: connecting science, policy and people
The report outlines necessary action to protect health from climate change