News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 113
U.N. Urged to Take Lead in Aiding Cholera-Stricken Haiti
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - U.S. legislators are appealing to the United Nations to take a greater role in addressing Haiti's cholera outbreak, now in its third year and which has has left thousands dead.
Guyana's Gold Boom Brings Pollution and Conflict
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 19 (IPS) - Pedro Melville, 62, a father of nine from Guyana's northwestern gold and manganese mining district of Matthew’s Ridge, sees the impacts of unchecked prospecting on the local environment every day.
Malnutrition Implicated in Child Killer Epidemic
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jul 19 (IPS) -
Parents wait anxiously outside a Phnom Penh hospital. Credit: Mike Hodgkinson/IPSHealth experts are blaming high malnutrition levels for an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has killed more than 54 children in impoverished Cambodia since April.
Impure Flows the Ganga
- Inter Press Service
HARIDWAR, India, Jul 19 (IPS) - Every year Yogesh Mudgal treks miles through the mountainous roads of the Indian Himalayas during the holy Hindu month of Shravan, in July.
Waste Not, Want Not – Providing for South Africa’s Food Security
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Jul 04 (IPS) - As South Africa grapples with reducing its sanitation backlog, scientists seem to have found a way to reduce the build up while simultaneously combatting the country’s food insecurity. The solution? Safely using human waste as fertiliser.
Water and Slums Bright Spots in MDGs
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 02 (IPS) - An annual report card on the ambitious U.N.-led initiative known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) says that in three areas - poverty, slums and water – the goals have been met ahead of the 2015 deadline, but persistent gaps remain, notably in the critical area of maternal health.
Mine Tailings Pollute a Chilean Town's Water
- Inter Press Service
People in the small town of Caimanes in northern Chile will suffer severe health problems if water pollution produced by a tailings dam built by the Los Pelambres mining company is not cleaned up, experts warn.
Setting Goals to Protect Half the Planet
- Inter Press Service
The high seas, crucial regions of the world's oceans that are beyond national jurisdiction, account for 45 percent of the planet, but are today under severe threat from overfishing and pollution.
Will Water Dry Up at Summit on Sustainable Development?
- Inter Press Service
The headline in a New York newspaper last March captured the essence of a future potential threat to political stability the world over: 'U.S. Report Sees Tensions Over Water.'
U.S.: Law of the Sea Treaty Ratification Faces Unsettled Waters
- Inter Press Service
Given the wide range of its supporters — everyone from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces to Greenpeace — one would think that Senate ratification of the 1982 Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) would be a slam dunk.
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