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 …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has decided to install reverse osmosis (RO) water purification systems in all the government schools across the state from next year. In addition, a decision has also been taken to install solar panels on the rooftops of all government schools. Solar energy produced by these panels …
George - Habitual water wasters may be slapped with penalties of up to R4 000 or six months in jail as the George Municipality this week implements fines for repeat offenders. The municipality is implementing water restrictions according to its Drought Management Policy after the Garden Route Dam, which services …
The Water and Sanitation Health (WASH) MK90 million project to enhance access to quality water as a means to avert fears of waterborne diseases had berm launched in Salima North-West constituency at Traditional Authority (T.A) Khombedza. A project of the Water Mission, a faith-based organization, it targets 6,000 households that …
Pop icon Beyonce is throwing her superstar power behind a new effort to bring safe, clean water to children in Burundi in a partnership with UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Friday (June 30, 2017). Plans call for the project, BEYGOOD4BURUNDI, to help build wells and improve hygiene …
Moçâmedes — At least 1500 people in Bibala Municipality, south-western Namibe Province, are since last Saturday benefiting from the entrance into functioning of a new water supply system, built in the ambit of the integrated municipal programme of rural development and fight against poverty. Estimated at 25 million kwanzas, the …
Pretoria — The City of Cape Town has implemented stricter water restrictions to its citizens as dam levels continue to be critically low as a result of the drought. "The City of Cape Town advises all water users that stricter water restrictions will come into effect from 1 July 2017. …
Sengerema — President John Magufuli is expected to launch a Sh23 billion water project at Nyamazugo Village in Sengerema District on Tuesday. After that he will go to home district Chato for a short rest. Speaking to reporters at the weekend, Sengerema District Commissioner Emmanuel Kipole said the project would …
Residents of Nairobi should brace themselves for prolonged water-rationing period. The hope of having adequate water lies on the short rains which come in October. The recent long rains increased the volume of water at the Ndakaini Dam, where the city’s four million residents get 84 per cent of their …
Cape Town has implemented stricter water restrictions in a bid to reduce water usage. Level 4b water restrictions allow individual users 87 litres a day. Capetonians are allowed to use 500 million litres a day. The City of Cape Town said dam levels remained critical and needed to be filled …
A rapidly expanding population is stretching the capacity of Kigali city to assure piped water supply to its rural districts. Piped water contractors in Kigali environs say they are stretched as settlements expand with each seeking to be connected to mostly old water networks with low production. The government targets …
The Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership launches July 1st. The Partnership identifies sustainability, inclusion, institutions, financing and resilience as crucial for delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. Partnership for a Water-Secure World Water touches nearly every aspect of development. It drives economic growth, supports healthy ecosystems and is fundamental for …
The 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) is the fourth Demographic and Health Survey conducted in Ethiopia. It was implemented by the Central Statistical Agency (CSA) at the request of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH). The primary objective of the 2016 EDHS is to provide up-to-date estimates of …
The 2017 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) provides a headline estimation of poverty and its composition for 103 countries across the world. The global MPI measures the nature and intensity of poverty, based on the profile of overlapping deprivations each poor person experiences. It aggregates these into meaningful indexes that …
Dodoma — District Executive Directors have until July 20, 2017 to submit to the government an audit report on water projects in their jurisdictions. The audit should show the up-to-date status of the projects in the 185 district councils around the country. He said a special team will be formed …
Finding that there were not enough medicines at the health centres in the mandal to meet an emergency, the government has lifted the cap on storing medicines at PHCs, and with community health workers. DAYS AFTER it emerged that at least 16 people from tribal families in a small, remote …
The new strain does not lead to sporadic cases, but attacks groups of people, which is why it is stated to be virulent. Hyderabad: Forty-five strains of ‘vibrio’ cholera were isolated from 10 different places in India and their genetic modules compared to the Haitian strain, which was responsible for …
The results of the water samples tested by the health authorities in Muktsar district show that the residents here are at a risk of contracting waterborne diseases. Of the total 45 water sample reports came so far this year, 23 have failed to clear the “potability” test. These samples were …
All Western Cape municipalities have been given instructions on how to implement water restrictions. Members of the provincial legislature were taken aback last week when the head of disaster management in the province‚ Colin Deiner‚ said some municipalities imposed no restrictions, despite the drought. Deiner said on Tuesday that the …
THE Ministry of Health (MOH) says typhoid that broke out in Muchinga and Lusaka provinces early this year is now under control. MOH spokesperson Kennedy Malama said currently, there is no patient under treatment, and there has been no death reported so far. “There are a total of 142 cases …
Cape Town - The City of Cape Town is preparing for the imminent implementation of intensified water restrictions, water and waste services mayoral committee member Xanthea Limberg said on Monday. The envisaged Level 4b restrictions would adjust the water usage target down from 600 million litres per day to 500 …
