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South African city’s water experimentation and innovation serves 1 million residents. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue DURBAN, South Africa — Arguably the most elegant aspect of an inelegant subject is how this city of 3.2 million residents, South Africa’s second largest, is solving monumental water and waste challenges in its jammed informal settlements. The […]
New civil rights movement emerges around septic system pollution By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue A measure of desperation and disease, parasitic infections caused by hookworms are seen by medical specialists as a powerful betrayal of civic progress. More than 700 million people worldwide, many of them children, are infected by a microscopic worm that […]
Sarina Prabasi is the CEO of WaterAid America, part of the international organization WaterAid working to improve access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. She talks with Circle of Blue about the Sustainable Development subgoal to achieve universal and equitable sanitation access.
Droughts, floods, and a lack of clean water slow the elimination of food insecurity in developing nations.
The Global Rundown Water is a growing concern in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Nepal. Nitrate pollution are threatening drinking water in Minnesota, conservation efforts are making progress in the Colorado River Delta, and more water permits are expired in California’s national forests. The Islamic State recently captured a strategic dam outside of […]
The Global Rundown Hospitals fail to meet international water and sanitation standards. A city reliant on groundwater sees levels drop while illegal sand mining threatens water supplies in southern India. Desalination is more attractive for a gold mine proposed in Mexico after a water-price hike. Protestors in Baltimore oppose a plan to shut off water […]
The Global Rundown A lack of safe water and sanitation is deadlier in Nigeria than terrorist group Boko Haram, a nonprofit group found, and a deadly mosquito-spread encephalitis is increasingly common in northern India due to changing rainfall and temperatures. The United Kingdom’s Environmental Audit Committee recommended a moratorium on fracking, while a spill of […]
The Global Rundown Clean water is necessary for the fight against AIDS in Africa. Waterborne diseases are on the rise in Mosul, while Sao Paulo is two months away from running out of water. Floods have killed five people in southern France, and Ireland’s water utility is spending millions on legal fees. India’s desalination business […]
India India’s new prime minister is hoping to vastly improve sanitation in the country by making toilets accessible to every home and school by 2019, as well as changing ideas about who cleans up after society, Reuters reported. Poor sanitation is estimated to cost India 6.4 percent of its gross domestic product annually. United States […]
The start of the rainy season adds logistical hurdles to the humanitarian response and increases fears of disease outbreaks. Photo © UNICEF/Kate Holt On March 23, a girl fills a jerrycan at a water point run by UNICEF at a displacement site on the Tomping base of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, […]
Africa More than 100 million people in southern African countries lack access to safe drinking water and 174 million lack access to toilets, despite economic growth in the region, the Guardian reported, citing a new report from the international organization WaterAid. The report found that progress on improved access has been slow for the past […]
Health and Sanitation Waterborne diseases caused by water supplies contaminated with sewage are a major threat to public health in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. The city’s crumbling water and sanitation infrastructure means that many residents are forced to defecate outside, while aging city sewage pipes have burst […]
