News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 96
Treaty Poised to Cut Toxic Mercury Pollution
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 07 (IPS) - A new international convention opening for signatures this week will for the first time offer an agreed-upon roadmap by which to significantly decrease the global use of mercury while offering stronger safeguards for both human health and the environment.
In Trinidad, Sports Complex Targets a Key Watershed
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 07 (IPS) - Trinidad's Orange Grove Savannah sits at the foothills of the Northern Range, whose watersheds provide copious volumes of fresh water into the aquifers - natural underground water storage areas - lying below these green spaces.
Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Oct 07 (IPS) - Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered.
How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, U.S., Oct 05 (IPS) - What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?
Mayors Leading an Urban Revolution
- Inter Press Service
NANTES, France, Oct 05 (IPS) - With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.
From Toilet to Tap for Water Scarce City
- Inter Press Service
KWAZULU-NATAL, South Africa, Oct 01 (IPS) - In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality's sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.
OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 25 (IPS) - Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050.
Ladakh Invites New Scarcities
- Inter Press Service
LADAKH, India, Sep 24 (IPS) - The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams.
Proposed Global Accord Called a Disaster for Public Services
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 17 (IPS) - Nearly 350 international civil society organisations are urging countries taking part in new negotiations towards an agreement on "trade in services" to abandon the effort, warning that the accord would negatively impact on universal access to and national regulation of public services.
Scarcity Reveals an Inaccessible Excess
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Sep 15 (IPS) - For decades Zakayo Ekeno has walked Turkana County's arid land, herding his livestock, and his father's before that. Yet nothing about the persistently drought-stricken land in northern Kenya could have given him an indication of the wealth beneath it.
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