News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 57
Three International Days in a Week, But Is Anybody Listening?
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Mar 22 (IPS) - For three consecutive days this week, we gave thought to our future. On International Forests Day, Monday, 21 March, we were reminded that forests are vital for our future water needs. On Tuesday, 22 March, World Water Day, we learned that half the world's workers are involved in the water sector and some 2 billion people, especially women and girls, still need access to improved sanitation. World Meteorological Day, on Wednesday, 23 March, concluded with the warning of a hotter, drier and wetter future. A reality that is already evident and frightening, as productive land turns to sand or dust.
Water Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 22 (IPS) - A narrow dirty trail snakes through what used to be a small dam in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme south of the eastern border city of Mutare. And what remains of this once perennial dam is just a small puddle of mudded water; the dirty water is completely covered with thick green algae.
Forests Help Quench Urban Thirst
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 21 (IPS) - The next time you turn on the tap to fill the kettle, you might want to spare a thought for the forest that made it possible. It may be a hundred kilometres away or more from where you are sitting, but the chances are that you owe your cup of tea, in part at least, to the trees that helped to capture the water, and to filter it on its long journey to you the consumer.
World Water Day: Water Scarcity Is a Clear and Present Danger
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 21 (IPS) - Water scarcity is already a clear and present danger, and it is the innocent, particularly women and children, who are harmed most. When we are inundated with information about water it's easy to become desensitized. World Water Day on March 22nd gives us an opportunity to reflect on the one simple truth: water is life.
Water and Sanitation Challenges Amidst Social Inequality in Urban Areas in India
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 21 (IPS) - During the month of March 2016 and ironically very close to the World Water Day, the Supreme Court of India had to step in to resolve a water sharing dispute between three contiguous states including the National Capital Region. That, this was not the first time that the Supreme Court had to intervene is a stark indicator of the extent of the water crisis that is confronting India, a country that aspires to be a global power. Earlier Supreme Court had to step in to resolve a bitter dispute on water sharing between two Southern states of India – Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Clean Water, Sanitation & Hygiene For All by 2030
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (IPS) - Last year we watched with cautious optimism as UN chief Ban Ki-moon welcomed the new Sustainable Development Goals, and called upon the world to meet them.
Rural Community Fights a Second Dam and a New Expropriation of Land
- Inter Press Service
CHICOASÉN, Mexico, Mar 08 (IPS) - In 1976, the construction of a hydroelectric dam destroyed farmland in the rural municipality of Chicoasén in southern Mexico. Forty years later, part of the local population is fighting a second dam, which would deprive them of more land.
Women “Water Friends” Script a Success Story
- Inter Press Service
MAMNA, India, Mar 08 (IPS) - Prema Bai, 58, bends her head and pushes hard her wheelchair on the village road. In the early afternoon, the village of Mamna appears almost deserted although it is home to 742 families and is located in Uttar Pradesh - India's largest and most populated state. Thanks to a severe drought, every man and woman under 50 has fled Mamna in recent weeks, leaving behind the elderly and women with very young children. "They thought we were like cattle, a burden in this hard time because we only eat but yield no returns," says Bai whose two sons and their wives also migrated to Agra -- a city 255 km away -- to work in a brick kiln.
Tanzania Farmers, Pastoralists Launch Forum to Resolve Water Conflicts
- Inter Press Service
PAWAGA, Tanzania, Mar 03 (IPS) - At a remote village of Itunundu in Iringa, farmers and pastoralists recently met to discuss the best way to share land resources while charting out a strategy to prevent unnecessary fights among themselves. No one in the village ever imagined that this meeting would ever take place as the two groups had for long considered themselves enemies: they often clashed for water and pastures to feed their animals thus causing deaths and loss of property.
Garbage, Garbage Everywhere, but…
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Feb 29 (IPS) - Imagine a river bursting its banks and flooding entire cities and towns. But when the river is made of malodorous garbage and is in Beirut, this is a stark and dramatic situation affecting the city's 2.226 million people.
It all started in July 2015, when the Lebanese administration closed the major landfill of the city. Since then, trash is being piled all over the streets of Jdeideh in Beirut's northern suburbs. This river of garbage grew steadily, as reported in recent days by a wide section of news media, including Al Jazeera, CNN and Reuters. Thousands of kilometers away in Pakistan, a very similar situation is reported by Dawn.
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