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[flv:ITT_WATERMARK.flv 320 181]Original video available online at ITT Watermark STOCKHOLM – This year’s World Water Week convened a panel of communications and water experts from ITT and SustainAbility to discuss solutions to the global water challenge. During the panel, ITT — a high-technology, engineering and manufacturing firm — discussed its recently announced philanthropy project. Called […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The June 2008 Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act Report to Congress demonstrates an integrated approach to the global water crisis, writes the New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. The new report, according to the nonpartisan policy research […]
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Managing Director (MD) Islamul Haq on Friday claimed that there was enough water in Rawal and Khanpur dams to meet the requirement of the city during summer. Talking to Daily Times, Haq said the city was getting water from these two dams and 260 tube-wells. Presently, the […]
by C.T. Pope Circle of Blue Almost two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s rural poor could benefit from investment in water, a new UN report finds. The jointly commissioned report, Water and the Rural Poor, was presented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the […]
On the Tibetan Plateau, where a whim of nature created the highest points on Earth, many of the world’s major rivers are born. Each day their flows bring life to more than a billion people downstream in Asia, the planet’s most populous region. As we watch the headlines in an age of shifting water supplies, […]
LAGOS – Since 1999, huge amount of public funds have been spent on provision and management of water. Certainly, more money has been spent on this than funds spent trying to house Nigerians. The result is still no potable water and lack of access to adequate sanitation. Medical experts would confirm that more than half […]
KAMPALA, UGANDA — Speaking during a workshop on HIV/AIDS and sanitation at the Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala recently, the executive director of the Uganda Water and Sanitation Network, John Byarugaba, said that lack of clean water increases the risk of diarrhea among people living with HIV/AIDS. “The immuno-compromised status of people living with HIV/AIDS […]
SAN RAFAEL DE LA LAGUNA, ECUADOR — This year’s World Water Day, commemorated on Saturday, 22 March, and the International Year of Sanitation 2008 remind us that clean water is the fountain of life and health. Water is also a source of development, as shown by the villagers of San Rafael de la Laguna, Ecuador. […]
The Atlas of Health: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease, by Diarmuid O’Donovan, from the Earthscan Atlas Series, is a major new graphic profile of global health. The book outlines the causes and incidences of major diseases as well as the economic, social and environmental factors that impact on people’s health worldwide, including water […]
LONDON – The world faces a future of “water wars”, unless action is taken to prevent international water shortages and sanitation issues escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the International Development minister. Read More here. Source : The Independent
Cholera is an infection of the intestine, that causes copious watery diarrhoea, vomiting and leg cramps, and can quickly result in dehydration and death. Cholera is most common where there is poor sanitation and no access to clean water. Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, using equal area cartograms where territories are re-sized on […]
GABORONE, BOTSWANA — The department of water affairs, local government, waste management and pollution control, crop production, environmental health and the University of Botswana have agreed to work together to achieve global sanitation targets. They made the pledge at a press conference at Cresta Lodge on Monday, marking the National Week on Sanitation celebrations, which […]
