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The Global Rundown Lakes Michigan and Huron are inches away from setting all-time water level highs. Citizens of a West Virginia town have been without water for a week. Residents of the Hawaiian island of Kauai narrowly miss the wrath of Hurricane Douglas, while Hurricane Hanna continues to devastate the Texas Gulf coast. DigDeep announces […]
The rainy season has hit Burkina Faso, and with it an array of flooding and waterborne disease that has uprooted people from their homes.
Human Rights Watch released a statement Monday announcing suspected Covid-19 outbreaks in recent weeks in Egyptian prisons and police stations. Leaked letters, witness accounts, and credible reports from local rights groups and media indicated 129 suspected cases, 64 positive cases, and 14 deaths from Covid-19 complications. Overcrowding, lack of sanitation, and limited resources and medical […]
In Brazil, favela residents take action against societal inequalities exposed by the coronavirus.
Venezuelan migrants housed in temporary shelters in La Guajira, just across the border in northeastern Colombia, are grappling with two debilitating forces: Covid-19 and lack of clean water, according to the NGO network HelpAge International. “We are hugely concerned about COVID-19 breaking out in La Guajira,” said Marcela Bustamante, a regional representative at HelpAge, in […]
Nearly 2,000 people on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon have been ordered to boil their water for the last several weeks.
The coronavirus has yet to peak in Zambia, but observers worry about the country’s ability to fight a disease surge.
The most vulnerable people to the new coronavirus are those without clean water access. In Burkina Faso, that’s about half the country.
The International Committee of The Red Cross (ICRC) published a report today on the importance of water workers in conflict zones and the challenges they confront during the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has left a secondary impact on health, water, sewerage and electricity services, and overwhelmed those personnel in the field along the way. The […]
The Global Rundown Ethiopia confirms that it has begun filling the reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Brazil’s economy minister estimates that the country’s sanitation sector will receive more than $110 billion in investments in the coming years. A flash flood kills at least 21 people in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province. U.S. Great Lakes […]
A study conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that access to safe and reliable water in two provinces in Vanuatu is a greater challenge for menstruating women, people with disabilities, and those with incontinence. The Water, Women, and Disability study highlighted that while 93 percent of people are likely to […]
