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
A water supply for Wegala in the Meda-Dumbara electorate will be inaugurated today by Urban Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardena on the invitation of Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake at Wegala, Teldeniya. Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake said this is another programme under the Mahinda Chintanaya to provide pure drinking water to the public. He said 550 families and over 3,000 persons in Wegala, Meegahamadiththa and Doraliyadda South will benefit from the new water scheme.
Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement Project (REIP) has failed to launch Rs 72 million project of laying water supply lines and installing new tube wells in nine union councils of Potohar Town. Sources told Daily Times on Thursday that last year the REIP had made a plan to launch this project but due to general elections in February 2008, the project could not be started in time.
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWS&DB) undergoes a loss of nearly Rs. 9 billion in providing drinking water, Water Supply Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said. The Minister was addressing a meeting after vesting with people several water supply schemes at Rotawala in Ambalantota. He said even undergoing a loss, it was the duty of the NWS&DB to supply drinking water to the people.
Union Health Minister appeals to the people not to politicise the matter Bangalore: Union Minister for Health Anbumani Ramadoss on Tuesday appealed to the people of Karnataka not to politicise the Hogenakkal issue. Addressing presspersons after inaugurating the advanced services at NIMHANS, the Minister urged the people of Karnataka to support Tamil Nadu
One billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water and countries must try harder to reach their goals on sanitation, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday. "There has been progress towards achieving the water and sanitation Millennium Development Goals, but not enough," Ban said in a speech at the water-themed International Exposition in Zaragoza in northern Spain.
The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board is supplying unfit drinking water
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Drought swept Bundelkhand desperately needs a drinking water
By international standards, water supplies in Perth, Western Australia, contain high trihalomethane (THM) levels, particularly the brominated forms. Geographic variability in these levels provided an opportunity to examine cross-city spatial relationships between THM exposure and rates of birth defects (BDs).
The leadership agenda for action released by Coalition for Sustainable Nutrition Security in India to promote policy, programme and budgetary focus on overcoming the curse of malnutrition.