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The environmental damage caused by [...] poor clean-up methods could be disastrous, Emmanuel Emmanuel, an environmental scientist in Port Harcourt, said. “Oil does not burn at 800 degrees Celsius,” he explained, “so when you burn it, you just flare off the volatiles and gas. The dense crude remains... Read more...
A delayed water-supply project in Nepal that includes tunneling 26 kilometers through a mountain to ease chronic water shortages in Kathmandu looks set to proceed Read more...
PESHAWAR, Feb 7: More than two million population of the provincial capital of North West Frontier Province drinks contaminated water, environmental scientists at Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research reveals in a latest report. “Except a section of Hayatabad Township, water in... Read more...
LUSAKA, 8 January 2008 (IRIN) - Zambia's mines are coming under increasing and sustained criticism for repeatedly polluting drinking water sources in the Copperbelt mining region, the country's economic heartland. Last week the country's second largest copper producer, Mopani Copper Mine, which has... Read more...
The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Project , completed in 2004, was the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) first urban infrastructure project in India. The Project was based on an $85 million loan for an integrated urban development project in Karnataka State in the central south of India,... Read more...
Mercury and heavy metals toxicity endanger lives and livelihoods along the Meycauayan river system north of Manila. River clean-up has begun, but contamination may have reached groundwater sources. This Pilot and Demonstration Activity (PDA) approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in January... Read more...
Villagers of the small fishing town of Vunisinu, Fiji were at a mad scramble to find out why their catch was diminishing by the day, only to discover that the causes were of their own making. Household wastewater pollution, over-fishing, and mangrove destruction were pushing the sea’s resources to... Read more...
The Chair of the Africa Water Group (AWG) is shifting between EU Member States. During 2007 the group was chaired by France, who proposed a mapping exercise on EU aid to water sector development in Africa. Active Member States have been requested to submit detailed information on water sector... Read more...
The long-serving Secretary of the UN Water Africa group, Dr. Stephen Maxwell Donkor, has joined UNICEF in Southern Sudan. Dr. Donkor left the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in December 2007 after serving the organization for a decade as a Senior Regional Advisor on Water. Dr... Read more...
Muleba, Tanzania, 17-Jan-08 (UN-HABITAT) President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania inaugurated a project to improve access to clean water for the residents of Muleba town, some 600 km north east of Dar es Salaam. Muleba is one of the six towns participating in the first phase of the Lake Victoria Region... Read more...
21 January 2008 (Babacar Bachir Sane, Le Soleil newspaper) Senegal's Social Forum and CONGAD (a council of non-governmental groups supporting economic development) met in Dakar on 17 January 2008 to form a committee to write a Blue Book, an assessment of the country's potable water and sanitation... Read more...
11 January 2008 (Absalom Shigwedha Outapi, The Namibian) Last year's Government order to NamWater that the water utility should open all rural water points that had been closed due to non-payment was based on the fact that water is the most important commodity in a person's life, President... Read more...
11 January 2008 (World Development Movement) City Water Services, a subsidiary of British-based water company Biwater, has lost an international legal case for breaching its contract to deliver water and sanitation services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania between 2003 and 2005. The contract with City... Read more...
More than half of the people who live in Bogodogo, one of five metropolitan areas of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, say that the cost of water is not affordable, a survey by WaterAid shows. Nor is this just an opinion – since in fact six out of ten people lack access to decent water services. Read more...
A training workshop held in Poland introduced water specialists, researchers and professionals working on other development issues to 'process documentation', an approach to document and jointly learn from change processes. Read more...
UN-HABITAT and IRC organised the Second Regional Media Workshop on "Urban Water and Sanitation Issues in Asia and the Pacific", in Singapore from 12-14 July 2007. Read more...
The aim of this Emergency Environmental Health Forum is to share field experiences and new research focusing mainly on decreasing the disease burden in emergencies. Rather than focusing on water and sanitation equipment the focus is on say diarrhoea reduction and what combined methods can be used... Read more...
La vie dans le village de Kassab en Egypte a changé avec le remplacement des méthodes traditionnelles de collecte et de stockage de l'eau par un approvisionnement plus hygiénique et plus facile à travers les robinets de la maison. Read more...
Les équipes de EMPOWERS se préparent à produire des films documentaires mettant en évidence les activités du projet dans trois pays. Read more...
The ZimWASH project aims to strengthen the capacities of civil society organizations and local government in providing Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services targeting the needs of the rural poor. Read more...
