Global IssuesNews headlines for “Water and Development”
The Lead-Free Water Pledge: Steps Towards a Future of Lead-Free Drinking Water
- Inter Press Service
Chapel Hill, NC, US, May 23 (IPS) - At the UN Water Conference in March 2023, the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) along with several key partners, including UNICEF, Water Aid, the World Health Organization, and the governments of Ghana, Uganda, and South Africa, among others, organized a session centered around the elimination of lead in drinking water across the globe.
Rainwater Harvesting Brings Hope for Central Americas Dry Corridor - Video
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, May 22 (IPS) - Chronic water shortages make life increasingly difficult for the more than 10.5 million people who live in the Central American Dry Corridor, an arid strip that covers 35 percent of that region.
Chiles Water Vulnerability Requires Watershed and Water Management
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Apr 19 (IPS) - Good management of the 101 hydrographic basins which run from the Andes mountain range to the Pacific Ocean is key to solving the severe water crisis that threatens the people of Chile and their main productive activities.
Water is Life: How the UN in Samoa is Responding to the Triple Planetary Crisis
- Inter Press Service
APIA, Samoa, Apr 14 (IPS) - Water is life. No other definition captures quite so aptly what this essential element means for our lives, livelihoods and the natural environment.
The Vampiric Draining and Poisoning of Lifeblood: Water
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Mar 21 (IPS) - Shockingly, the human suicidal war on Nature not only continues unabated but is also set to become even more virulent. Just to start with, please be reminded that groundwater accounts for 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth, according to the 2022 UN World Water Development Report.
Managing Water Sustainably Is Key To the Future of Food and Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 15 (IPS) - In contrast to its strategic role as an essential resource to help achieve community development and poverty alleviation globally, groundwater has remained a poorly understood and managed resource.
Terrorism & its Impacts on Water Access in the Sahel
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 14 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s interim President Captain Ibrahim Traoré spoke late last year of the conflicts that are now blighting his country and much of his region. He described the situation in Burkina Faso as predictable given the endemic weaknesses in governance that he believes have led to the economic abandonment of many young people, particularly outside of urban areas.
Interwoven Global Crises Can Best be Solved Together
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Mar 02 (IPS) - When global crises are interlinked, they overlap and compound each other. In such cases, the most effective solutions are those that work at the nexus of all these challenges.
Malawi Suffers Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades
- Inter Press Service
BLANTYRE, Jan 09 (IPS) - On March 3, 2022, Malawi declared a cholera outbreak after a district hospital in the southern region reported a case. This was the first case in the 2021 to 2022 cholera season.
This Planet Is Drying Up. And these Are the Consequences
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Dec 01 (IPS) - Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress.
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