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Some residents in Harare have gone without water for more than three weeks while some areas of Bulawayo have experienced water cuts lasting more than five months. Amid all this chaos, blame shifting has been the order of the day. Power cuts, unreliable water reticulation equipment and lack of... Read more...
For people of Chirimbi, Gana and Jamus, all communities dotted in Jigawa State, getting good drinking water has been life ambition. But their dreams, it seemed, are sunk with the holes drilled by the contractors. For, close to two years after the new boreholes were sunk and the reservoirs built,... Read more...
Discourses of privatisation: the case of South Africa's water sector Read more...
Scientific organisations and researchers working in developing countries will be brought together through a network to be launched on 12 May in New York.The programme, Scientists Without Borders SM, is an initiative of the New York Academy of Sciences. It seeks to integrate the efforts of the... Read more...
"Across India, there is a rising tide of water privatisation projects made possible in recent years by a radical departure in the way national policy views water. Water is no longer just a public service to be delivered by governments but a resource to be managed well if need be, with the... Read more...
(January 25, 2008) International Development Enterprises (IDE) today announced a grant of $27 million over four years from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in support of its micro-irrigation programs for Indian smallholder farmers. Facts about the project: The project will be carried out in... Read more...
The environmental damage caused by [...] poor clean-up methods could be disastrous, Emmanuel Emmanuel, an environmental scientist in Port Harcourt, said. “Oil does not burn at 800 degrees Celsius,” he explained, “so when you burn it, you just flare off the volatiles and gas. The dense crude remains... Read more...
A delayed water-supply project in Nepal that includes tunneling 26 kilometers through a mountain to ease chronic water shortages in Kathmandu looks set to proceed Read more...
PESHAWAR, Feb 7: More than two million population of the provincial capital of North West Frontier Province drinks contaminated water, environmental scientists at Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research reveals in a latest report. “Except a section of Hayatabad Township, water in... Read more...
LUSAKA, 8 January 2008 (IRIN) - Zambia's mines are coming under increasing and sustained criticism for repeatedly polluting drinking water sources in the Copperbelt mining region, the country's economic heartland. Last week the country's second largest copper producer, Mopani Copper Mine, which has... Read more...
The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Project , completed in 2004, was the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) first urban infrastructure project in India. The Project was based on an $85 million loan for an integrated urban development project in Karnataka State in the central south of India,... Read more...
Mercury and heavy metals toxicity endanger lives and livelihoods along the Meycauayan river system north of Manila. River clean-up has begun, but contamination may have reached groundwater sources. This Pilot and Demonstration Activity (PDA) approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in January... Read more...
Villagers of the small fishing town of Vunisinu, Fiji were at a mad scramble to find out why their catch was diminishing by the day, only to discover that the causes were of their own making. Household wastewater pollution, over-fishing, and mangrove destruction were pushing the sea’s resources to... Read more...
The Chair of the Africa Water Group (AWG) is shifting between EU Member States. During 2007 the group was chaired by France, who proposed a mapping exercise on EU aid to water sector development in Africa. Active Member States have been requested to submit detailed information on water sector... Read more...
The long-serving Secretary of the UN Water Africa group, Dr. Stephen Maxwell Donkor, has joined UNICEF in Southern Sudan. Dr. Donkor left the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in December 2007 after serving the organization for a decade as a Senior Regional Advisor on Water. Dr... Read more...
Muleba, Tanzania, 17-Jan-08 (UN-HABITAT) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania inaugurated a project to improve access to clean water for the residents of Muleba town, some 600 km north east of Dar es Salaam. Muleba is one of the six towns participating in the first phase of the Lake Victoria Region... Read more...
21 January 2008 (Babacar Bachir Sane, Le Soleil newspaper) Senegal's Social Forum and CONGAD (a council of non-governmental groups supporting economic development) met in Dakar on 17 January 2008 to form a committee to write a Blue Book, an assessment of the country's potable water and sanitation... Read more...
11 January 2008 (Absalom Shigwedha Outapi, The Namibian) Last year's Government order to NamWater that the water utility should open all rural water points that had been closed due to non-payment was based on the fact that water is the most important commodity in a person's life, President... Read more...
