BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle

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BCBInc’s 7 Day Charity Challenge in Full Throttle

1 Comment 09 April 2011

Building Community Bridges Inc., (BCB) has 7 days to raise a grand total of $5,000 to support their operations that bring clean water to rural villages in Togo and West Africa. According to the CIA World Factbook, bacterial diarrhea is a very high risk of death to citizens of Togo. Lack of clean drinking water, hygiene [...]

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Hydropower to Empower Rural Village in Liberia

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Hydropower to Empower Rural Village in Liberia

4 Comments 16 February 2011

Addressing the post-conflict setting in remote areas of Liberia requires a strategy that utilizes natural resources in a way that promotes sustainable development in vulnerable communities. During the first phase of the Liberian Civil War between the years of 1989 and 1996, rebel soldiers destroyed infrastructure in local communities, preventing these communities from accessing health [...]

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Conserving Tanzania’s Coastal Resources

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Conserving Tanzania’s Coastal Resources

1 Comment 26 January 2011

The unsustainable use of coastal marine resources in Tanzania is a direct threat to the international development agenda. Poverty, hunger, and the steady decline of environmental stability in the region have peaked interest from key stakeholders in East Africa’s marine resources. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is working in Tanzania through one [...]

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Giving the Gift of Clean Water this Holiday Season

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Giving the Gift of Clean Water this Holiday Season

4 Comments 11 December 2010

What better time than the holidays to rethink the value of a gift?  As developed nations prepare their shopping lists, millions of children in under developed nations are still lacking the most essential necessity for life— clean water. Children in poor countries often have up to 1,000 parasitic worms in their body due to lack of [...]

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Bridging Water and Education in Kenya

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Bridging Water and Education in Kenya

4 Comments 30 November 2010

Why do children have to choose between attending school and spending the day walking to a creek where the water is unsafe? Is it acceptable that children trudge three miles a day to reach water that they know makes them sick, potentially sick enough to die? If children are the future, then solid investments in education [...]

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Save a Water Well Save Lives

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Save a Water Well Save Lives

2 Comments 10 November 2010

Rehabilitating broken water wells is an investment in global health, education, poverty reduction, and the safety of women and girls in developing nations.  Water well rehabilitation secures the initial monetary and social investment made when water wells in a developing country were installed. Sometimes, saving water wells could mean saving a life. In Cote D’Ivoire and [...]

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Repairing Water Wells in Africa

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Repairing Water Wells in Africa

7 Comments 04 November 2010

“You don’t miss the water until the well runs dry” rings true for rural communities with water wells that no longer provide fresh water. Throughout Africa and in other parts of the world, water well abandonment is a major concern that stunts growth of rural communities where water wells have run dry. Sustainable development is a [...]

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African Water Facility (AWF)

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African Water Facility (AWF)

No Comments 23 September 2010

Africa is the second driest continent on earth after Australia. Water scarcity is caused by a variety of problems draughts, water pollution, and limited water sources. With agriculture becoming endangered and sanitation problems causing mortal diseases.The African Water Facility (AWF) is an organization launched in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AFDB) that finances and promotes sustainability projects to render water accessible to local population and therefore ameliorate their living conditions.

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Tunis Water project

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Tunis Water project

No Comments 15 July 2010

On June 17, The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the Northern Tunis Wastewater Project for US$ 8.03 million. The goal of the project is “to reduce the environmental impact of treated wastewater dischared into the Gulf of Tunis by building a submarine outfall.

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Ethiopia: a long term initiative

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Ethiopia: a long term initiative

No Comments 01 July 2010

In the majority of regions in Africa, water becomes the crucial element for the survival of entire communities that depend mostly on agriculture. Water scarcity becomes a double nightmare for the people that risk not only dehydration but also hunger. Read more here to find out about an effective water initiative in Ethiopia launched by the African Water Facility (AWF).

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