Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Women and girls across the world collectively spend about 200 million hours every day collecting water which is a “colossal waste” of their valuable time, the UN children’s agency has said of the activity which is a daily routine for millions of girls in India. As World Water week began …
The document titled ‘The True Cost of Poor Sanitation’ was compiled by Oxford Economics to determine the link between cost of sanitation and the factors behind it. But for a continent fraught with epidemics, the report by the Japanese firm paints a grim picture of sanitation on the continent. The …
The Arab uprising in 2010 and subsequent wars in the eastern Mediterranean region have had serious detrimental effects on the health and life expectancy of the people living in many of the 22 countries in the region [1], according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease …
Lack of access to sanitation cost the global economy US$222.9 billion in 2015, up from US$182.5 billion in 2010, a rise of 22%. This report uses the same economic assumptions from previous research undertaken by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), and uses modelling techniques to build on …
Seoul, Aug 23 (IANS) The first case of cholera in the last 15-years has detected in South Korea, health authorities confirmed on Tuesday. A 59-year-old man from Gwangju city, about 270 km (168 miles) south of Seoul, was diagnosed with the deadly disease that kills thousands of people each year …
The outbreak has killed about 10,000 people in Haiti since 2010 The UN has finally acknowledged it played a role in an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in 2010 that has since killed about 10,000 people in the country. Scientific studies have shown that Nepalese UN troops were the source …
BHOPAL: It's no surprise residents of Bairagarh and surrounding areas have to frequently get their water purifiers serviced. For long, residents have been complaining about the quality of piped water supplied by the civic body which has a very foul odour and tastes bad. impurities in the water frequently clogs …
WASHINGTON – Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows. About a dozen species of vibrio bacteria make people sick when they eat raw or undercooked seafood or else drink or swim in …
The study was carried out to determine the bacteriological safety of water in hand-dug wells in the Atebubu-Amantin District of the Brong-Ahafo Region in Ghana. A total of 60 samples were collected from ten hand dug wells and analysed for total coliform (TC), faecal coliform (FC), E. coli (EC), Salmonella …
Eliminating open defecation is an important policy priority in India. In this article, Arya, George and Singh from the Centre for Policy Research, illustrate how using readily available geospatial data to estimate exposure to open defecation can help focus public investment and efforts in areas where it is needed the …
Guwahati: With the situation slowly improving in the flooded districts of Assam, the fear of resurgence of Japanese Encephalitis hover over the affected areas. Over 295 JE positive cases have been reported from the state with 66 casualties so far. Health experts and specialists of vector-borne diseases have expressed concern …
MUMBAI: World Health Organization is launching an `Injection Safety Project' in India on World Hepatitis Day, along with guidelines to scale up treatment and care of Hepatitis. Hepatitis is preventable and treatable, but continues to be an acute public health challenge globally, and in south-east Asian countries. Safe injections, blood …
Despite the cost of drugs coming down and dramatic advances in the treatment of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C, getting rid of both types of the disease remains a huge challenge primarily due to lack of awareness and unsafe injection practices, experts have rued. Hepatitis B is 50-100 times more …
The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said 276 communities across the country have been certified open defecation-free. UNICEF Chief of Field Office, Kaduna, Utpal Moitra made this known in Minna at a mid-year review of 2016 UNICEF State plan for Niger. Moitra said that about 97, 000 …
At least 13 people have died and 190 hospitalised following a recent outbreak of Cholera in various parts of South Sudan, the health ministry disclosed. “The Cholera cases were reported and recorded in Duk County of Jonglei State, Juba County of Jubek State and Terekeka County of Terekeka State since …
African Development Bank (AfDB) has expressed satisfaction on Tanzania's implementation of water and sanitation projects, promising to continue working closely with the government towards the target of availing water and sanitation services to more citizens. AfDB Director of Water and Sanitation Department Mohamed El Azizi said in Dar es Salaam …
Meerut: Observing that the state government has failed to provide potable water to villages in six Uttar Pradesh districts where groundwater is contaminated with toxic elements -- Ghaziabad, Baghpat, Meerut, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur -- the National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed the chief secretary to ensure supply of drinking …
People wait for the downpur to subside on a flooded rad in Alwar on Sunday.People wait for the downpur to subside on a flooded rad in Alwar on Sunday. Expressing concern over heavy rainfall in many parts of the state, chief minister Vasundhara Raje on Sunday directed the water resources …
The objective of the study was to extend a nation-wide rotavirus surveillance network in India, and to generate geographically representative data on rotaviral disease burden and prevalent strains. Original Source
Mozambique: Bankrupting Mozambique - From Poster Child to Cautionary Tale Health officials in Karonga are blaming fishermen for the continued cases of the deadly cholera disease in the lakeshore district. Lewis Tukula, a district environmental health officer said there are continued cases of cholera in some areas in the district …
