Lake Victoria beset by environmental problems
July 2, 2008
Kisumu, Kenya - Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in Africa, is shrinking, dropping some six feet in the last four years. Over 30 million people in three East African nations depend on the lake’s water for their livelihoods and biologists fear that if the overdraw from the lake doesn’t decrease, Victoria could surfer from serious ecological problems. Read more
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Images: Circle of Blue collaborator featured in National Geographic
June 24, 2008
Nearly a year after four mountain gorillas were carried out of the forest — shot and burned — photojournalist Brent Stirton’s photographs of the event are featured on the cover of the July 2008 National Geographic. Read more
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Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa
June 24, 2008
by C.T. Pope
Once the third-largest source of freshwater in Africa, Lake Chad is disappearing according to new satellite images — putting millions of people in four Central African countries at risk of losing their primary water supply. Read more
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Angola: blessed water needs no sterilization
June 23, 2008
ANGOLA - A survey of Angolan households has revealed less than half of caregivers always treat water with a reliable method before giving it to children. And one third of those interviewed by Population Services International (PSI) believes water is blessed by God and does not need to be sterilized before use.
More than a quarter of children in the surveyed households had experienced diarrhoea (usually caused by water-borne bacteria) in the 15 days before completing the questionnaire and 7 percent of respondents reported a case of cholera in their household in the last 2 years.
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Source : Inter Press Service
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African growth will slow for lack of food and water
June 10, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - At the 18th Annual World Economic Forum on Africa, leaders, policy makers, and analysts all expressed concern over the impending consequences of the food and water shortages hitting sub-Saharan Africa. The panel urged policy makers to re-emphasize food and water as crucial economic elements - without them, maintaining the 5 percent growth Africa has experienced so far this millennium will be impossible. Read more
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Sewage on tap in Kenya
June 4, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 100,000 Nairobi residents could be consuming sewerage polluted water and now the risk of contracting deadly diseases is fast becoming a public health disaster.
The residents of Umoja II estate are being supplied with “relief water” as the commodity flowing from their taps is unfit for human use. Read more
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School runs dry in Namibia
June 2, 2008
WINDHOEK, Namibia - Pupils from the Motsumi Primary School at Corridor 13 in the Omaheke Region will return to classes today after missing classes for a week due to a water crisis at the school. Read more
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Plan to bring water brings suspicion
May 20, 2008
GRAHAMSTOWN - A plan to increase the supply of potable water to two coastal towns in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province is provoking heated debate. Read more
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South Africa urging water conservation
May 16, 2008
CAPE TOWN - The city of Cape Town has urged residents to be responsible and continue to conserve water.
In its drive to cut water wastage, the city has been installing water-saving devices for the past five months.
“Conserving water should become part of culture, we are lucky we had good rains last year, but who knows what the future holds for us if we waste it?” said water demand department manager Zolile Basholo.
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Source : Cape Argus
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Nigeria sets pricetag for safe water
May 16, 2008
BAUCHI, Nigeria - Bauchi State government said it will require N1 billion to address the perennial water shortage in the metropolis.
Dr Sale Toro, the chairman of the Bauchi State Water Assessment Committee, disclosed this in Bauchi while presenting the report of the committee to Governor Isa Yuguda. Read more
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