What Makes Water Unsafe? Not The Color, Taste Or Smell: #WorldWaterDay National Public Radio i | Young girls drink water from a canal flowing between nearby refugee camps and the main road in Peshawar, Pakistan. Majority World/UIG via Getty Images hide caption | toggle caption Majority World/UIG via Getty Images | Young girls drink water fro...
Access To Potable Water – Is Ghana Achieving Universal Coverage? Modern Ghana By Gbolu Samson | It’s world water day! | Water is a basic necessity of life. According to studies, water is ranked second only to oxygen as essential for life. The quality of drinking water is a major determinant of health. And access to potab...
Climate Change Is Contaminating Water Sources With Fecal Matter Huffington Post The global water crisis has become more dire now that climate change is threatening the drinkability of water, even that which comes from reliable sources. | New testing procedures have found that 1.8 billion people may be imbibing water contaminated...
#Climatechain: UN to launch campaign illustrating water-environment-climate change link United Nations Print | 21 March 2016 – As the global community marked World Water Day during a special event at United Nations Headquarters, the UN Children's Fund reported that rapidly changing weather conditions are limiting access to safe drinking water ...
Read a Transcript of Obama’s Press Conference in Havana Time Magazine President Obama met with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Havana, Cuba, Monday, where the two held a joint press conference. | Here is a transcript of the full event. | CASTRO (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Mr. President Barack Obama, we are pleased to w...
Angola cut spending for low oil prices and triggered a yellow fever health crisis Quartz Like other oil-dependent countries, Angola has been hit hard by the fall and continued volatility of the price of oil. To deal with the resulting cash crunch, Africa’s second biggest exporter of oil made budget cuts last October with public inv...
Haiti earthquake: A new start in Canaan for survivors Al Jazeera - Sand and dust sweeps across the rolling hills outside of Port-au-Prince as the sun beats down on tens of thousands of tin roofs, cinderblock houses and half-built concrete structures. | In Canaan, named after the biblical Promised Land, 209,000 H...
Sierra Leone infrastructure development needs new focus and leadership Sierra Leone Telegraph Dr Jonathan Tengbe | Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2016 | My vision for Sierra Leone as an aspiring presidential candidate is to improve the standard of living of all Sierra Leoneans, through better infrastructure planning and a coherent national ...
More power to the vaccine arsenal The Hindu India has made huge strides as far as public health achievements are concerned, made possible by the use of safe and effective vaccines delivered through quality programmes. For example, small pox was eliminated in 1975, polio in 2014 and maternal an...
WHO Report Inquisitr A deadly yellow fever epidemic has engulfed the Southern African Country of Angola, killing nearly 160 people in just months, according to the World Health Organization estimates. The lethal outbreak has already assumed ominous proportions and is bei...
The Bugs That Live On Us and Around Us New Yorker At the turn of the nineteenth century, Aaron Burr, who would later become the third Vice-President of the United States, secured a charter and millions of dollars in financing to establish the Manhattan Company, which promised to tap clean drinking w...
