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Africa: Africa's Water Security Perilous - but Data Reveals Surprises #AfricaClimateCrisis
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 22 March 2022
An early assessment of the continent's water security finds finds Egypt ranked most secure - but climate change presenting threats across Africa Read more »
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Africa: The World Needs a New Water Agenda #AfricaClimateCrisis
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 22 March 2022
As climate change boosts risks, water insecurity is growing - and needs a plan Read more »
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Africa: World Water Forum in Senegal Promises to Be a Catalyst for Action
RFI, 21 March 2022
The ninth World Water Forum, a week-long series of conferences and workshops aimed at accelerating universal access to water and sanitation, is to open on Tuesday in the Senegalese… Read more »
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Africa: Africa to Drastically Accelerate Progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene - Report
Unicef, 22 March 2022
If current progress trends continue, very few African Union member states may achieve universal access to safely managed drinking water, safely managed sanitation or basic hygiene… Read more »
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Africa: Protect Forests and Water Security for a Habitable Planet
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 21 March 2022
Thomas Maddox is CDP's global director for forests and land, Cate Lamb is CDP's global director for water security and Amir Sokolowski is CDP's associate director for climate… Read more »
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Nigeria: Unicef Nigeria Warns Millions At Risk of Water Contamination Ailments
VOA, 21 March 2022
On the commemoration of World Water Day, UNICEF is raising concerns about Nigeria, where an estimated 70% of water at the point of consumption is contaminated. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Harare Residents Worried By Raw Sewage Discharged Into Rivers
VOA, 21 March 2022
Authorities in Zimbabwe are attempting to enforce laws penalizing companies that discharge waste into rivers, which are used for water by citizens downstream. Read more »
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Africa: Enough Drinking Water in Africa for Decades, New Report Reveals
VOA, 21 March 2022
There is enough groundwater on the African continent to provide everyone with enough drinking water to face at least five years of drought, and in some cases up to 50 years. This… Read more »
World Water Forum Looks at Challenges of Supply and Access
Water. Where to find it, store it drink it and save more of it has been a challenge that humanity has grappled with for ages. But as the effects of the climate crisis worsen, water becomes even more precious.
The World Water Forum is being held in Dakar, Senegal - a first for the continent - and UNICEF says that "if current progress trends continue, very few African Union member states may achieve universal access to safely managed drinking water, safely managed sanitation or basic hygiene services by 2030."
While some experts advocate using groundwater, this is not without risks.
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As Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam faces water shortage, environmental and hygiene experts have proposed measures to take for people to protect themselves from outbreaks of diseases.
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Experts warn that some may take advantage of the water rationing to sell water from unsafe sources after Dar es Salaam Water and -
Nigeria's Lagos is the country's economic capital. It is also a city that has nearly 25 million residents, adding 600,000 people each year. Lagos is growing at a faster pace than New York and Los Angeles in the U.S. It is however, struggling with an inadequate supply of water and sanitation - a basic human right - which is essential to health. Local government areas have been generally classified as low, medium and high density areas. The majority of residents in the medium and low
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Around one-third of all rivers in Latin America, Africa and Asia are routinely exposed to untreated wastewater and agricultural run-off. Across the developing world, water quality monitoring is sporadic, especially in Africa.
The United Nations Environment Programme has launched the Global Environment Monitoring System where experts provide guidance to graduate students and municipal officials around the world, on how to develop global capacity to monitor fresh water quality and to
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The Kenyan government is still in the dark on how soon it can guarantee Nairobians enough water for domestic use. It requires that ongoing new-source water projects be completed, enough funding be found even when it has admitted it is broke, a cohesive plan be adopted to fight water cartels, and wastage be minimised.
A January 2018 investigation in Nairobi, showed that the biggest threat to effective supply of the little available water to Nairobians remain the cartels that interfered
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