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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State to combat epidemics
Oct. 12: The panchayat raj minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana, asked medical and health officials, government doctors, members of district wing of Indian Medical Association and municipal commissioners to strictly implement an integrated health action plan to combat epidemics and viral fevers effectively in the district.
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After flood, epidemic fear
The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics. Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar districts, which were ravaged by the floods and remained underwater for six days, now face the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, malaria, diarrhoea and even plague is being feared.
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Diarrhoea death sparks panic
Nonihatwari (Dumka), Oct. 6: The death of a 25-year-old woman in Nonihatwari under Jama block this morning has triggered panic of a possible diarrhoea outbreak in the area. Lilabati Kumari could not be taken to Sadar hospital and she died without treatment. But Dumka civil surgeon S.N. Jha was unaware of the death.
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Dengue set to peak, stay cautioned
While the country is preparing to combat pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus, another outbreak of a virus called dengue is gradually escalating at an alarming level. City hospitals are seeing huge number of patients everyday. Health experts warned that if proper measures are delayed, the condition could be more fatal than that we are experiencing now.
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TiO2 assisted photocatalysis: A novel method for water treatment
Photocatalysis is an advanced oxidation process aiming at the complete conversion of harmful and toxic dissolved contaminants in natural or drinking water into carbon dioxide, water and inorganics in presence of semiconducting materials such as TiO2 and ZnO which act as catalysts.
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Threat of water-borne diseases high in State
With cases of arsenic and fluoride contamination of water bodies being reported from places in neighbouring West Bengal and Bangladesh, it may be time for Assam to adopt a policy to explore and map such sites. According to doctors, who are familiar with such incidence, the State should work with a precautionary principle in mind.
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Diarrhoea grips 4 new villages
Jamshedpur, Sept. 21: The situation in diarrhoea-hit Potka block has deteriorated, as the disease has now spread to more villages. Cases of diarrhoea were reported from four new villages today, raising the number of affected villages to 19.
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Diarrhoea stalks Potka, 400 affected
Till Friday, it preyed on 80. Within 72 hours, the count has jumped to 400. Diarrhoea, which reared its head in Potka, East Singhbhum, last week is stalking as many as 15 villages in the block, where at least 100 have been hospitalised. Unconfirmed reports say six villagers have already died of the disease, but the district administration has denied the claim.
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Under control in Kalahandi
BHUBANESWAR: Cholera may have been controlled in Kalahandi but it is still fully on with its dreaded hybrid variant threatening to break loose. A surveillance study suggests that this killer bacteria is present in at least 13 districts of the State.
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Waterborne diseases are on the rise
Mumbai: Statistics provided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) health department shows a considerable rise in deaths related to water-borne ailments and gastroenteritis. As many as 49 waterborne fever-related deaths and eight gastroenteritis deaths were reported this monsoon. click here