Tag archive for "water-borne diseases"

Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys

water culture

Water Celebrity of the Week: Alicia Keys

2 Comments 04 April 2011

Singer Alicia Keys is WaterWideWeb’s Water Celebrity of the Week. In her music video Superwoman, water is a powerful metaphor for the unity and empowerment of women. Within the first minute of Superwoman, Keys is adorned in traditional garb walking across the Saharan desert to fetch water at a well. On her head rests a basin [...]

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Water Issues in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan

asia, water projects

Water Issues in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistan

No Comments 01 March 2011

Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia face public health risks and high rates of mortality from water-borne diseases. In Uzbekistan, only 50 to 60 percent of the population living in rural areas has access to treated water delivered through a centralized, piped water system. Lack of infrastructural development and a water quality monitoring system [...]

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Australia’s Flood Problem Just Starting

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Australia’s Flood Problem Just Starting

5 Comments 11 January 2011

Flash flooding in Queensland, Australia has brought water woes to the surface in the Asia-Pacific. For the past 10 years, Australia struggled to manage drought and water shortages. Now, the country is inundated by amounts of water that it can’t handle. Australia’s coal and mining industry are suspended and farming operations are at a standstill. Damages [...]

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No Hexavalent Chromium in My Tap Water Please!

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No Hexavalent Chromium in My Tap Water Please!

1 Comment 22 December 2010

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit advocacy group, recently conducted a research study of tap water and found trace levels of hexavalent chromium (hex chrom) in the water supply of 35 U.S. cities including Boston, Tallahassee, San Jose, and Madison. Hex chrom has been identified as a toxic, cancer-causing chemical implicated in stomach and [...]

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Giving the Gift of Clean Water this Holiday Season

South America, africa, asia, water projects

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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Student NGO Builds Wells in India

asia, water projects

Student NGO Builds Wells in India

5 Comments 07 December 2010

In 2007, an eighth grade student traveled to the rural village of Paras, India. Rujul Zaparde witnessed villagers walking over one mile a day to find clean water. The sight moved the young Zaparde. When he returned to the United States, he partnered with a peer, Kevin Petrovic, and the two founded Drinking Water for [...]

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Are Microfinance Loans for Water Projects Paying Off?

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Are Microfinance Loans for Water Projects Paying Off?

1 Comment 23 November 2010

Financing water projects in the developing world costs time, money and lives. While relief organizations wait for grant funding to initiate water projects, people are dying from dysentery, cholera and dehydration. The human expense incurred from this administrative process is unacceptable. In developing countries like Haiti, the water supply is largely controlled by private sector vendors. [...]

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UNICEF Targets Latino Community in Awareness Campaign

USA, global initiatives, water projects

UNICEF Targets Latino Community in Awareness Campaign

3 Comments 19 November 2010

The average New Yorker is concerned about subway delays, lines at Starbucks, and reaching a destination in a hurry. International concerns like deaths attributable to water-borne diseases and the global water crisis are not top priorities for every metro New Yorker. How can UNICEF call attention to the fact that 4100 children die every day [...]

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Save a Water Well Save Lives

africa, water projects

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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