News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 111
Climate Adaptation Daunts Karachi’s Planners
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Sep 06 (IPS) - Climate proofing this bustling port city is a daunting task for planners who must consider factors ranging from proneness to flooding and administrative malaise to the fact that 60 percent of its 18 million people live in slums.
Water in DRC More Often Cause of Death than Source of Life
- Inter Press Service
MBUJI MAYI, DR Congo, Sep 05 (IPS) - Despite the desperate lack of access to water for domestic use in Mwene Ditu, in the central Democratic Republic of Congo, Dieudonné Ilunga spent a good part of July blocking up residents' wells.
Women Spend 40 Billion Hours Collecting Water
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 31 (IPS) - As the weeklong international conference on water concluded Friday, it was left to one of the keynote speakers from the United Nations to focus on a much neglected perspective on water and food security: the role of women.
Burkina Faso's VIPs – Very Important People Championing Ventilated Improved Pit Latrines
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 31 (IPS) - For far too many households in Burkina Faso, going to the toilet means heading for the bush. The Burkinabè government has launched a new campaign to change this, calling on prominent personalities as both sponsors and champions.
Kashmir’s Melting Glaciers May Cut Ice With Sceptics
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, Aug 31 (IPS) - Jowhar Ahmed, an air-conditioner dealer in Srinagar, is pleased at a spurt in business this summer caused by temperatures soaring over 35 degrees Celsius - unusual in this alpine valley ringed by snow-capped mountains.
Farming Among the Waste in Cameroon
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Aug 30 (IPS) - Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens.
Despite Possible Attacks, Gaza Plans Half-Billion-Dollar Desalination Plant
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 30 (IPS) - Last May the European Commission reported that scores of infrastructure projects in the Gaza Strip, financed mostly by the European Union, have been damaged or destroyed, wittingly or unwittingly, by Israeli military forces in the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Sweden to Fund Innovations in Water Sector
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 29 (IPS) - When the international community was struggling to ward off a potential decline in development aid in early 2000, it came up with a novel idea: a proposal for "new and innovative sources of financing", including a tax on airline tickets and a levy on foreign exchange transactions.
Drought Dries Up Balkans Harvests
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Aug 29 (IPS) - After two months of waiting, people from the central Serbian town Valjevo followed the call of their bishop and went to local Orthodox Church to pray for rain.
Could Water Strife Lead to 'Mass Killings' in the Future?
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 28 (IPS) - As the world faces possible water scarcities in the next two to three decades, the U.S. intelligence community has already portrayed a grim scenario for the foreseeable future: ethnic conflicts, regional tensions, political instability and even mass killings.
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