2024 water funding gap report
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap. Despite dwindling
Chronic arsenic exposure causes a wide range of health effects, but little is known about critical windows of exposure. Arsenic readily crosses the placenta, but the few available data on postnatal exposure to arsenic via breast milk are not conclusive. The goal of the study was to assess the arsenic exposure through breast milk in Bangladeshi infants, living in an area with high prevalence of arsenic-rich tube-well water.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the association between arsenic exposure through drinking water and the occurrence of pterygium in southwestern Taiwan.
Long-term impacts of drinking chlorinated water on the incidence of cancers and miscarriages were assessed in a population-based cross sectional study conducted in the two campus communities of IIT Kanpur (IITK) and IIT Kharagpur (IITKgp). IITK has been using untreated groundwater since the community was established in 1963, while IITKgp has been using chlorinated water for more than 30 years.
Urge Centre, State to find an alternative to sand in construction industry "Regulate inter-country, inter-State and inter-district transport of sand' "Construction of reservoirs across the Ponnai in Andhra Pradesh will hit Vellore'
Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has underlined the need for effective implementation of projects launched by the urban local bodies and their completion strictly on schedule. She has also asked the urban bodies to submit detailed reports on the projects under operation. Addressing a high-level meeting of the Local Self Department here, Ms. Raje asked the officials concerned to speed up conversion of dry toilets into water-operated toilets and undertake a survey of urban houses lacking the toilet facility.
Corruption is denying the poor in Africa and Asia access to water and making households in Nairobi face higher utility bills than those in New York, a report by Transparency International released Wednesday said. The anti-graft watchdog said corruption was a critical but often overlooked factor in the global water crisis that has left a fifth of the world's population without guaranteed access to drinking water.
Transparency International (TI) Global Corruption Report (GCR) 2008 released on Wednesday analyses that corruption affects all aspects of the water sector, from water resources management to drinking water services, irrigation and hydropower. TI Pakistan Chairman Syed Adil Gilani said that corruption in Pakistan water sector since decades has been one of the major causes of slow economic development, shortage of power, irrigation as well as potable water.
The Federally Administered Tribal Areas will get Rs8.662 billion for the Annual Development Programme for financial year 2008-09, showing an increase of 30 per cent over the previous year, officials said. The size of last year's ADP was Rs6.60 billion. Officials said 77 per cent of the new ADP funds would go to ongoing development schemes in the seven tribal agencies and six frontier regions and the remaining amount would be spent on new schemes. The ADP is likely to be presented to NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani in the next couple of days for approval.
: The clean drinking water programme of the federal government is unlikely to achieve the target it set for the installation of filtration plants in the country, as only 4,500 plants are likely to be installed against the target of 6,035 plants during 2007-08. A review of the installation of filtration plants showed not much progress on the approved policy of having one filtration plant in each union council. The utilisation of funds remained very low against MTDF targets, when only 440 water filtration plants were established against a target of 646 during 2005-07.
Muhammad Mustafizur Rahman speaks at a consultation at the DPHE conference room in the city yesterday. On his right is Jan Mollar Hansen and on his left is Abu Bakar Siddique. Photo: STAR Safe water supply and sanitation in the tea gardens of the country is very poor, said the speakers at a consultation yesterday. Moreover, the administrative barriers make it hard to carry out development programmes there, they added.