News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 41
2 Billion People Don’t Have Access To Clean Water, Opens up Fissures of Inequality
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13 (IPS) - More than two billion people lack access to clean and safe drinking water, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Mideast: Water Use Innovations ‘Crucial’ to Face Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 05 (IPS) - In the Near East and North Africa region, the per capita renewable water availability is around 600 cubic metres per person per year --only 10 per cent of the world average- and drops to just 100 cubic metres in some countries, the United Nations warned.
Anyway to Help Slow Down Climate Change, Individually? Yes We Can!
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 27 (IPS) - It is no secret that the biggest responsible for climate change is greed. The greed of the world's largest private corporations, which blindly seek unlimited high financial benefits. And the greed of those politicians who are also blindly keen about holding their temporary power at any cost, thus not daring to challenge big business. Ordinary people can meanwhile help slow down such a hellish race.
Europe Stands by Caribbean on Climate Funding
- Inter Press Service
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Jun 26 (IPS) - A senior European Union (EU) official in the Caribbean said Europe is ready to continue the global leadership on the fight against climate change, including helping the poor and vulnerable countries in the region.
“Black Soils’ - Excessive Use of Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Mercury…
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 23 (IPS) - Soil are polluted due mostly to human activities that leave excess chemicals in soils used to grow food, the United Nations reports.
The World Is Burning
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 23 (IPS) - Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come and. This implies more drought, more food insecurity, more famine and more massive human displacements.
Children Now More Than Half of the 65 Million Displaced
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - Around 20 people are newly displaced every minute of the day, according to a new report.
In its annual Global Trends report, the UN's refugee agency UNHCR has recorded unprecedented and concerning levels of displacement around the world.
New Inhumane Record: One Person Displaced Every Three Second
- Inter Press Service
ROME/GENEVA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Nearly 66 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes last year, the United Nation refugee agency has reported.
Asia-Pacific: Farming Rice and Fish Together to Reduce Poverty
- Inter Press Service
ROME/BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - Rice is a major food commodity and staple food for many, and adding fish to flooded rice paddies has been a farming tradition practiced in a number of Asian countries for many centuries—even for more than 1000 years in some Chinese areas, the United Nations reports.
Africa: Drought and Jobless, Hopeless Youth, Fertile Grounds for Extremism
- Inter Press Service
ROME/OUAGADOUGOU, Jun 19 (IPS) - Ignoring the plight of jobless young people in sub-Saharan Africa is a recipe for political instability and global insecurity, warned a high-level symposium of Africa's interior, environment and foreign affairs ministers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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