The City of Windhoek is on the brink of declaring a Category D Severe Water Scarcity, following an alarming announcement by Dieter Tolke, Engineering Technician: Water at the City of Windhoek.
Entrepreneurs looking to join the value chain in waste management in Seychelles can now apply for a grant under the Challenge Fund, a financing programme developed by the Joint Sustainable Devel...
The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality says the city is working around the clock to stabilise water supply in areas that are supplied through the South Coast Augmentation (SCA) pipeline.
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The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) has expressed concern about the impact of inadequate Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities in many government school...
World Wide Mission School clinched the 2024 World Water Day Football Championship by defeating St. Simon Baptist High School 8 - 7 in post-match penalty kicks, after seventy minutes of exciting ...
Grand Cape Mount -- Several citizens including town officials were in total excitement on Wednesday this week when they saw machines of BMMC moving towards their area to carry out the constructi...
How importing countries can address water stress from global commodity production
Historically, water has been a central factor in human settlement patterns. Ancient civilizations flourished along the banks of rivers. Modern cities cluster around freshwater sources, impacting...
Nairobi -- The Nairobi County Government has deployed technical staff and equipment to unclog sewers and drainage systems in various parts of Nairobi affected by flooding following heavy rains.
Massa Sumo, a 33-year-old resident of Yahyonyon Town in Todee District, Montserrado County, Liberia, fetched water from the town's only creek all her life until December 2020. The creek is the o...
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Despite ongoing challenges with water access in some regions, Ugandan Prime Minister Robinah Nabanja reiterated the government's commitment to providing clean and safe water to all villages acro...
Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Hundreds of thousands of people have fled violence in eastern DRC and crowded into camps that fail to meet their basic needs. Here, residents wait in long l...
London -- As the United Nations observes World Water Day on Friday, there is a growing risk of conflict over water resources as climate change takes hold, the international body said.
The El Nino-induced drought that hit the country this season has hounded many farmers out of cabbage production causing depressed supplies of the commodity against a rising demand in most mass m...
Only 28 percent of the world's most influential food and agriculture corporations report they are reducing their water withdrawals and just 23 percent say they are taking action to reduce water ...
The City of Johannesburg's water catastrophe has dragged on for almost three weeks, and Soweto residents say the situation is dire.
Twenty years ago, the hope for potable water in villages near Port St Johns was sky-high after the municipality provided communal taps -- but for the past seven years, the taps have been bone dr...
Pretoria, South Africa -- Like surface waters, groundwater resources frequently cross international boundaries, potentially igniting disputes among nations that rely on this essential resource. ...
Women in one of the poorest parts of rural Madagascar are growing their financial independence from men by cultivating village land and selling their produce.
SCOPA hears of the substantial obstacles blocking the reopening of Cape Town's Central Line
Human Rights Day is a reminder that the Constitution's Bill of Rights guarantees everyone's right to access clean water
Five counties in Liberia have jointly signed a resolution to end open defecation in their respective areas under a USAID-sponsored Countywide Sanitation Activity.
Dehydration is a big issue during unusually hot weather and outbreaks of diseases such as cholera that lead to life-threatening diarrhoea. Anastasia Ugwuanyi is a family physician and clinical e...
A majority of citizens say their household experienced a shortage of clean water during the past year.
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On Friday, police had to whisk Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu away from an angry crowd in Musina.
Rundu -- A contractor on Thursday disconnected the sewer pump at Max Makushe Senior Secondary School because of non-payment by the directorate of education.
Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu and the Zimbabwean Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka, have signed an agreement for the transfer...