THIRTY-Year-old Sarah Lokiru, did not know why her children were always suffering from malaria and stomach ache. It was until she attended healthy living sessions by the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) that she understood the causes of the constant illnesses.
SCIENTISTS have revealed that the quality of water supplied to Kampala is deteriorating. A team of professors and scientists from Makerere University and the University of Bergen in Norway, reveals in a report after a four-year-study, that consumption of Lake Victoria water is disastrous.
Cholera is a disease caused by a bacterium spread mainly through faecal contamination of water. It is characterised by profuse diarrhea and rapid loss of body water, and is summarily fatal if untreated.
Local government administration in Nigeria generally remains the rubber stamp of their state governments. Both their budgetary allocation and proposed capital expenditure especially, on infrastructure are merely said or read on the pages of newspaper than practically seen on ground at the grass root level.
This hilly, Swiss-like picturesque sprawling community, surrounded on all sides by marshy swamps, cannot escape the eye when driving along the Tubman Boulevard shooting out of derelict Monrovia. Its shiny zinc-roofed huts dotting the evergreen landscape just behind the New Defense Ministry, conceals the squalor beneath-no toilettes nor water system. The smelly marshes around are now a huge ...
As part of a wider initiative to conserve the heavily degraded Lake Victoria basin, the government has earmarked over Rwf 160m for removing water hyacinth. The weed has eaten up a number of lakes in the basin.
Ethiopia and Norway signed agreements on hydropower development and capacity building academic cooperation worth around 400 million ETB on Monday, a press release from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis said.
Children in Otavi's informal settlement, some of whom are as young as six years old, regularly beg for water from residents who live in other suburbs and spend each day at a rubbish dump site looking for food. These were some of the findings by a Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) documentation project.
GOVERNMENT has taken over ownership and management of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project, effectively making the project a national scheme.
It is a real shame that in this age of the fibre-optic cable and advances in locally-developed mobile phone applications that have been hailed the world over, Kenyans should be dying of cholera.
A major water project in Bunda District has stalled in mysterious circumstances.
Harare City Council's refurbishment of Morton Jaffray Water Works, the largest treatment plant for the capital is almost complete with normal delivery of water expected to improve next year, town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi said on Tuesday.
A medical team has been flown to East Pokot and Turkana East districts after a cholera outbreak killed 27 people.
Water minister Charity Ngilu has said her Ministry is not to blame for the Cholera outbreak that has so far caused 194 deaths in the country since January.
Nigerian engineers have been recognised as having a central role to play in achieving a balanced economic development for Nigerian in the provision of basic infrastructure, roads, housing, water, electricity so as to ensure huge success of this administration.
KAFUBU Water and Sewerage Company (KWSC) has taken over the abandoned Lake Ishiku Water Treatment plant in Ndola which it will reinstate at a cost of US$1.4 million, company public relations officer, Margaret Zulu has said.
The high prevalence of illegal water use in slum areas has forced the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) to start urban pro-poor water initiatives.
THE ministry of water and environment has embarked on a nation-wide programme of collecting data on water sources before updating the national water atlas.
Selebi-Phikwe and its surrounding areas have been experiencing erratic water supply since the beginning of September, prompting the introduction of rationing and other remedial measures to restore stability.
Twenty two people have been admitted to two health centres in Hola suffering from cholera-related diseases. Most of the patients were from five villages in a remote part of Tana River District. Ten are in an isolation ward at Bura sub-district hospital.
More than 400,000 residents in Runyinya, Nyaruguru and Huye districts are schedule d to have clean water by the year 2012.
Residents of Oljoro and Muriet wards of Arumeru District and those residing in Oljoro Number 10 in Simanjiro district now have access to clean and safe water after completing phase two of a community water project.
Last November 19 marked the day that a group of concerned private citizens of the world under the aegis of World Toilet Organization (WTO) decided to draw global attention to the dire consequences of neglecting man's toilet needs.
The Emir of Dutse in Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammadu Nuhu Sanusi has called on the general public to abide by simple hygiene so as to prevent themselves from avoidable infection of communicable diseases.
On October 9 this year, an unusual event happened in a small town of Mkata, Handeni District in Tanga Region. It was around 9am when hundreds of residents mobilised themselves to block the Mkata-Segera Highway, stopping any vehicle from passing through the town.
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