News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 103
Keystone Opponents Deepen Criticism of Proposed Pipeline
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 16 (IPS) - Two new reports, put out by a cross-section of U.S. environmental and public interest groups, are attacking central rationales for the construction of a major new Canada-U.S. oil pipeline proposal, which has emerged as an emblematic cause for green groups who have angrily denounced a U.S. government approvals process.
New York Nuke Waste in Limbo as Concerns Rise
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 16 (IPS) - Over one million kgs of nuclear waste sit in limbo on the banks of the Hudson River, in dry cask storage units and spent fuel pools just 60 kms north of New York City, according to environmental organisations.
Global Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 13 (IPS) - The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025.
OP-ED: Letting Nature Take Its Course?
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 12 (IPS) - Is sustainability still possible? Yes. Is it still probable? No. With bold action today, tomorrow, and in years to come, we could succeed in creating a sustainable and prosperous society. But what does bold action actually mean?
Access to Sanitation Still a Luxury for the Very Few
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Apr 10 (IPS) - About 20 communities in Tillabéri, west Niger, have been declared open defecation-free zones as across the country, very few people have access to proper sanitation.
Q&A: Obesity and Hunger Are Two Sides of the Same Problem
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 08 (IPS) - Over 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010. In fact, since 1980, the worldwide prevalence of obesity has doubled, according to the British medical journal the Lancet.
Water Shortage Hits Pacific Women
- Inter Press Service
HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Apr 08 (IPS) - The Solomon Islands, a developing island nation in the south-west Pacific Islands, has one of the highest urbanisation rates in the region, and the basic service infrastructure is struggling to cater for the influx of people from the provinces to the capital, Honiara. Thirty-five percent of the city's population, who live in informal settlements, are facing the health consequences of a dire shortage of clean water and sanitation.
The Siege Is Rubbish
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Mar 31 (IPS) - "For the past five years we've collected garbage by traditional means: donkey and cart," says Abdel Rahem Abulkumboz, director of health and environment at the Municipality of Gaza. The municipality of Gaza alone produces 700 tons of waste daily, Kumboz says. More than half of this waste is collected daily by 250 donkey carts.
Inhospitable Flows the Nile
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Mar 29 (IPS) - A 4,200-year-old relief in the Tomb of Mereruka in Sakkara depicts the staggering array of fish that once inhabited the Nile River and its wetlands. Ancient Egyptian fishermen with linen nets haul in their bounty, including the sacred Oxyrhynchus, a snub-nosed fish that was captured and nurtured but never eaten.
Group Warns of “Natural Resources Giveaway” in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) - Researchers have unveiled new data warning that governments in Latin America are infringing on the rights of their indigenous populations in a bid to fuel development through the extraction of natural resources.
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