The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Paynesville – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has embarked on a two-day workshop for packaged water producers. It is aimed at creating awareness on the EPA’s regulations on safe drinking water. Report by Gerald C. Koinyeneh, gerald.koinyeneh@frontpageafricaonline.com Speaking at the start of the training in Paynesville on Monday, August 13, …
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has condemned Gweru City Council water as unsafe for drinking amid reports more people continue succumbing to typhoid following an outbreak of the disease in Gweru City. At least 5 people have been confirmed dead following the outbreak while over 600 were affected …
The government has set up a task team to look at imposing a total ban on microbeads – the tiny plastic beads used in cosmetics, toothpaste and sandblasting. This comes after a Water Research Commission study found microplastic pollution in tap water in Johannesburg and Tshwane, as well as in …
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2017-18) present the Twenty Third Report on “Socio-economic impact of commercial exploitation of water by Industries.” The Committee (2016 -17) had taken up the subject “Ground Water Scenario, need for a comprehensive policy and measures to address problems in the Country with particular reference …
Water will be cut off in the towns of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape from Monday and only switched on again for short periods to stretch what little is left in the Kouga Dam, the municipality has announced. "We have been trying to delay the need for water …
Residents have been advised not to drink water from the Vaal River due to pollution. Officials say various levels of government are tackling the crisis. Water and sanitation department spokesperson Sputnik Ratau said the pollution is mostly from municipal sewage. The department's tests show the river is poisonous. “Preliminary results …
GUWAHATI: The Asam Songrami Mancha (ASOM) criticized the State government at Dispur for its mysterious silence and apathy over the unprecedented delay in completing numbers of drinking water projects undergoing in and around Guwahati city. Addressing the reporters in Guwahati on Friday, ASOM general secretary Samarjyoti Bezbaruah expressed strong displeasure …
A study of District Mineral Foundation (DMF) funds expenditure, that are collected from mining companies, by Centre for Science and Environment shows beneficiaries have not been identified in any of the mining-heavy districts and funds are not being spent on priority issues such as malnutrition and mortality among children under …
For 75-year-old Tsering Angdo, today’s Ladakh is entirely different from the world of his childhood in the cold Himalayan desert. Back then, he and everyone he knew would take water supply for granted. Ladakh was never short of water, considering the limited needs of a small population. That is now …
A federal judge on Wednesday removed Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a former mayor of Flint, along with the state government from a list of defendants in a class-action lawsuit over the Flint water crisis. The lawsuit, brought by a dozen residents of Flint and three local businesses, involves 13 claims …
Abeokuta — Minister of Water Resources, Mr. Suleiman Adamu has stated that access of Nigerians to pipe-borne water has dropped from 32 percent in 1990 to 7 percent in 2015, adding that about 71 percent of Nigerians have no access to quality water sanitation. He also said that only 69 …
COPPERBELT Minister Japhen Mwakalombe says Government is investing close to US$1 billion in improving access to water and sanitation in the province.Outlining projects on water that Government is putting up in the province, Mr Mwakalombe said Government attaches importance to the people on the Copperbelt. Kafubu Water and Sewerage Company …
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) investments are widely seen as essential for improving health in early childhood. However, the experimental literature on WASH interventions identifies inconsistent impacts on child health outcomes, with relatively robust impacts on diarrhea and other symptoms of infection, but weak and varying impacts on child nutrition. …
The global effort to achieve sanitation and water for all by 2030 is extending beyond the household to include institutional settings, such as schools, healthcare facilities and workplaces. This has been reinforced by global education for all strategies highlighting how water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools improves access to …
Levy will be up to four times the cess being collected by the water resources regulator Fearing the rapid depletion of groundwater, the Maharashtra government will levy a cess on the use of deep wells for its extraction, either for agricultural or industrial use. The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority …
Water and Sanitation CS Simon Chelugui has a word with Meru governor Kiraitu Murungi and his Vihiga counterpart Wilber Otichilo during a consultative forum with the Council of Governors on the National Water Policy and strategies at Sawela Lodge in Naivasha. Chelugui said Kenya will have a new policy on …
Marked as an occasion to raise public awareness and support for tiger conservation, Global Tiger Day — also known as the International Tiger Day — will be celebrated on Sunday. Srinivas Reddy, chief conservator of forests, Melghat Tiger Reserve, in a statement issued Saturday, said Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Bhutan, …
Drinking water in Johannesburg and Tshwane is polluted with microplastics, a new study has found. Substantial amounts of microplastics - bits of plastics less that 5mm in size - were found in the tap water in both cities, as well as in rivers in Gauteng and in borehole water in …
"In the past 18 months we have had water for only eight months. Last time water was running in our taps was six months ago," says Meko Poswayo, a former steering committee member of the Qamata water project. "Last year we had similar problems too." The project, which cost R78 …
Humanity is devouring our planet’s resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year’s worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days. As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which …
