These women bring light and clean water to their community in Ghana
TAMALE, Ghana – A water dugout the size of a few football fields stands just outside the village of Kuruguvuhuyayili, in northern Ghana. People use the muddy water for cooking, cleaning, bathing and...
View ArticleWater’s critical role in the fight against poverty: Peter Gleick
It’s World Water Week! So for today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with a scientist, Peter Gleick, who is world renowned for his work on perhaps our planet’s top natural resource – water – and...
View ArticleWater and sanitation: Informal settlements pose unique challenges, and locals...
People are abandoning rural life for urban centers in large numbers, and in the next few years, the majority of the world’s population will live in and around cities. Growing on the fringes of these...
View ArticleCongresswoman wants to halt and investigate World Bank’s private water...
The practice of the World Bank both advising countries on water and investing in private water companies presents a concerning conflict of interest, said Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wisc., in a letter addressed...
View ArticleMillions without water or proper sanitation after heavy rains near Chile’s...
Millions of people in Chile's capital city lost access to running water over the weekend, sparking a sanitation emergency and highlighting mounting critiques of the city's privatized water supply.
View ArticleLagos passes law making boreholes illegal amid water crisis
In the midst of a water crisis, the government of the Nigerian state Lagos made it illegal for people to fetch water. A bill passed last week bans the digging of new boreholes and criminalizes selling...
View ArticleInvestors pour $25 million into better water and sanitation in Latin America
Investors are pouring $25 million into an initiative to improve access to water and sanitation in some of the poorest countries of Latin America. The initial investment was announced over the weekend...
View ArticleWater Collective: A ‘maintenance-obsessed’ approach to clean water
Organizations around the globe recently marked World Water Day (March 22) to highlight the fact that 663 million people still do not have access to improved water sources, according to the World Health...
View ArticleWorld Bank: Latin America needs smarter investments in sanitation, transport
With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean spends less on infrastructure than any other world region. According to a World Bank report, however, the region should not...
View ArticleUniversal water goals impossible without ‘radical’ funding, says WHO, U.N.
Universal access to safe water and sanitation is achievable by 2030, but only if countries drastically step up their funding to fill the "gap between aspiration and reality," the World Health...
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