“Fifteen kilometers was the travel distance to a neighboring village to fetch water. During the dry season, we would have to travel 30 kilometers. Women and children spent most of their day in search of water. This was our daily struggle to get drinking water,” says Adoum Alhousseini, Chief of the pastoral village of Tagaza, in the commune of Tchirozérine, 120 kilometers north of the city of Agadez in Niger.
Patricia R. Blanco (TEXT), Manuel Seoane (PHOTOS)-EL PAÃS English
Seven departments in the country have already declared an emergency due to the lack of water. If the drought continues, cities like La Paz and El Alto will be left without water, while the inhabitants of rural areas will be forced to migrate to large cities
Arab News
Water should be considered a fundamental human right, to which all human beings are entitled, regardless of their background, ethnicity, nationality, religion or race. But consider yourself fortunate if you do have access to clean water around the clock, because it is alarming to see that one in four people globally still do not have access to safe drinking water, while 1.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation. One of the regions that has the highest percentage of people that lack access to safely managed drinking water is sub-Saharan Africa.
Miguel Arriaza-EL PAÃS English
The countryâs agricultural production is dropping and over half the population faces food insecurity, warns Save the Children
ReliefWeb
Situation Report in English on Bolivia (Plurinational State of) about Agriculture, Disaster Management, Drought, Heat Wave and more; published on 10 Oct 2023 by IFRC
The Borgen Project-BORGEN
Smart Tap promises to play a major part in making their lives easier. By providing large amounts of accessible and cheap clean water in Kenya.
The Borgen Project-BORGEN
Dry toilets in Zambia offer creative solutions to reducing poverty in rural areas that don’t have easy access to clean water.
YouTube
Millions of Filipinos still lack access to clean, potable water and toilets raising the need to support programs on water access, sanitation, and hygiene for...
Andy Lines, in Baragoi, northern Kenya-mirror
The Mirror spoke to families desperately trying to survive the sixth year without a rainy season - watching beloved children, siblings and parents die of starvation
Sky News
Several countries have evacuated their embassies in Sudan as fighting between the Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary group continues. Those left behind are now struggling to find clean water in Sudan's capital of Khartoum.
Kevin-KevinMD.com
Access to clean and drinkable water is essential for sustaining life, and we must work towards equitable access for all, rather than flushing it down the toilet.
YouTube
A new report by the United Nations warns that a quarter of humanity lacks access to safe drinking water, and nearly half of the global population has no acce...
NPR
The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030.
AP NEWS
United Nations (AP) — Humanity’s survival depends on how people manage water, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday at the end of a three-day conference on global water resources during which developing nations made urgent calls for help with cleaner drinking water and better sanitation.
Daily Sabah
The climate crisis is not an issue only one area of ââexpertise can evaluate and prepare for, which means evaluating the issue's various...
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Groundbreaking discovery helps rural communities in Niger tackle food insecurity.
UN News
The UN 2023 Water Conference, which takes place at UN Headquarters from 22-24 March, is being hailed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate progress towards universal access to safe water and sanitation by 2030.
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World Economic Forum
On World Water Day 2023, let's discuss these innovators who are helping us towards the UN goal of clean water and sanitation for all, through technology.
Dr. Tim Sandle-Digital Journal
Households deploy coping practices like storing water, and buying alternative water sources.
euronews
Women are disproportionately affected by water scarcity, but ‘clean water gives women a chance to make their dreams a reality’.
YouTube
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told 60 Minutes the fund wants to change agriculture subsidies to make clean water more valuable."60 Minutes" is t...
