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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Prevalence and costs of childhood diarrhea in the slums of Dhaka
Diarrhoea is a common water-borne disease among slum children in Bangladesh. This study seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood diarrhoea and its duration and to compute the resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The study is based on a survey of 480 households in 32 slums in Dhaka. Nearly 50 percent of slum
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Application of composite correction programme for improvement in efficiency of water treatment plant
Composite Correction Programme (CCP) is a water treatment plant optimization program that improves water treatment operation with
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Water safety plan: a manual for pilot study areas of Hyderabad
The quality of drinking water is a vital element of public health and well beings. Contaminated water is one of the causes of diarrhea diseases, which kill about 2.4 million persons globally; each year. Access to safe drinking water is essential to maintain a good health, and is a basic human right. It is an important component of effective policy for health protection.
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Feeling the heat: child survival in a changing climate
Climate change greatly increases the risk that the most basic rights of children in poor countries will not be met. These children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of global warming and yet least to blame. Save the Children
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Contaminated Water Supply in Goa
Goa has long been facing a problem of contaminated water, but the response of the authorities is tardy, says FREDDY DIAS W ater is essential for life. We need to drink at least 2.5 litres of water daily, which
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50% are unhappy with their water
Mumbai: More than 50% of Mumbai's population are not satisfied with the water they are supplied with. This has been revealed in a survey conducted by the Academy of Pharmaceutical, Kalina.
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Wash hands, cut risk of diarrhoea by 40%
Diarrhoea is a major killer in India claiming the lives of about 1,000 children below five years of age everyday. Worldwide diarrhoeal diseases and acute respiratory infections are responsible for the deaths of more than 3.5 million children below five years of age each year.
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Diarrhoea claims 3
BALASORE: Three persons, including a woman and two children, have died of diarrhoea within last couple of days in Mukhura panchayat under Remuna block of Balasore district. The deaths have been reported from two tribal hamlets. The deceased have been identified as Sita Singh of Gourapur and Kuni Singh and Buni Singh, daughters of Banguru Singh, of Nuapadhi village.
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Diarrhoea claims 6 in a week, 111 more hospitalised
Two diarrhoea patients died on Sunday night, raising the number of diarrhoeal deaths to six in a week, while 111 more people were admitted to Pabna General Hospital and Pabna Sadar Upazila Health Complex in 24 hours till yesterday afternoon. A specialised team will start work in Pabna from today to find out the nature and cause of the disease, district health officials said.