Haiti Archives

The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes. But there are other challenges that are short-term, emergency situations that could also be addressed by some new thinking and new technology.

The Stream, March 18: Japan and Haiti

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March 18, 2011

Fuel shortages, heavy snowfall and freezing weather are hampering…

Cholera in Haiti — The Climate Connection

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November 11, 2010

Researchers explain the correlation between environmental interactions and human health, as reported infections climb to 10,000 cases.

Freshwater Delivery in the Wake of Natural Disasters

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March 25, 2010

A sample of water technologies invented to store, ship and provide one of the most critical resources for crisis recovery.

Perspective: Water, Energy, Economy, Poverty, and Haiti

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January 28, 2010

The average Haitian has been living the life of a disaster victim even before the earthquake. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Its human development and other indices were about what one would find in some of the poorest sub-Saharan countries. Mismanagement, corruption and just plain venality have forever been human-caused security earthquakes in this sad country.

Haitian Earthquake Provides Lessons for Similarly Vulnerable Countries

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January 26, 2010

As recovery efforts in Haiti focus on supplying clean water to a region in which the water infrastructure was destroyed, a Maltese engineer thinks his earthquake-prone country, which sits just south of Sicily, could face a similar crisis

Relief Organizations In Haiti Prioritize Water Distribution

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January 20, 2010

Aid groups send purification and desalination systems to prevent dehydration, disease in the devastated country. Relief organizations are rushing to provide clean water to the more than two million inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.