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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 […]
THE FINANCIAL — ON March 5-6, the United Nations Global Compact, in partnership with the Pacific Institute, convened the inaugural working conference of the CEO Water Mandate. The CEO Water Mandate was launched by the UN Secretary-General to get the heads of major companies and organizations involved in finding solutions to the emerging global crisis […]
The latest statistics on water, sanitation and nutritional status worldwide, including a link to the full report. Read more here. Source: United Nations Development Programme
BEIJING — Beijing’s vice mayor Ji Lin said on Friday the Olympic host city has stepped up with water recycling to ensure sufficient supplies during the Games. “We’re already using recycled water in sanitation,” he said on the sideline of the First Session of the 11th National People’s Congress. The Olympic Games, opening on Aug. […]
The new Global Urban Poverty: Setting the Agenda report details innovative approaches and community-led solutions to problems facing cities, including crime, migration, lack of housing, and inadequate access to water and sanitation. It’s published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Comparative Urban Studies Project in Washington, D.C.
Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Margaret Catley-Carlson: […]
Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
We take for granted the privilege of safe drinking water right from the tap, a privilege that millions around the world don’t share. In fact, lack of clean drinking water is the second largest worldwide killer of children under five with more than 5,000 children dying each day from water-borne diseases. And lack of sanitation, […]
East Umchjin County, near the border with Mongolia, a place renowned for what Chinese scientists call "typical grasslands.
INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA (January 21, 2008) – Furious dust and sandstorms from Inner Mongolia cripple airports, darken skies, and choke millions of people across East Asia every spring. According to “Reign of Sand,” the new multimedia report from Circle of Blue, the storms are growing in intensity and frequency, and the primary causes are deepening drought in […]
