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September 15, 2012
Coca-Cola, and UN announce expansion plans of their water project
The collaborative project between Coca Cola and UN will now be expanded to 10 countries, and will impact more than a million people in both Asia and Africa. This expansion will build on the work already done on the ground. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
India: ‘Rickshaw Run’ to provide water for rural India
Britain based NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) Frank Water is going to benefit from the proceeds generated by ‘Rickshaw Run’, an adventure sport event being organized by Britain-based group ‘The Adventurists’. Participants will be made to race, driving a 150 cc powered auto-rickshaw or ‘tuk-tuk’, all the way from the east of […]
September 15, 2012
1.17 million people in Indonesia have no access to clean water
As many as 1.17 million residents of Bali do not get access to clean drinking water. Statistics stand at this despite efforts by the government to provide clean water to about 80 per cent of the island’s population. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
Access to clean drinking water still bleak in Africa
Despite abundant rains and floods, black Africa may fall behind its target of providing access to clean drinking water in accordance with the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals). UNICEF raised this alarm, saying that even by the end of 2015, as many as 605 million people there will not have access […]
September 15, 2012
Zambia: State urged to provide cleaner water
The people of Chongwe district suffer from a lack of supply of reliably clean water. Moreover, they must depend on external aid for access to water. There is a need for the government’s increased involvement to bring such development tools as access to clean water, to the area. Read more […]
September 15, 2012
India: Not ‘a trace of chlorine’ in private tankers in Chennai
There was apparently ‘not a trace of chlorine’ in as many as 90 private tankers across the city in Chennai, according to a study done by Chennai Corporation and the Food Safety department. Availability of clean water now seems to be a challenge for the poor and underserved, as well […]
September 15, 2012
Ghana: Remote off-grid communities to benefit from solar power
The government of Ghana, as announced by Minister of Energy Dr Joe Oteng-Adjei is all set to start a pilot programme which will replace the polluting, inefficient and dangerous kerosene lamps used in the countryside with solar lanterns, on a national scale. Read more here and here.
September 15, 2012
Pakistan: Poor families to benefit from free solar panels
In an initiative by the Punjab government, about half a million poor households in the state would be getting access to electricity through free solar panels. The objective of this exercise is to progressively use more renewable sources of energy. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
India: Solar power for the urban poor in Kolkata, West Bengal
About 100 odd families from the urban poor areas north of Kolkata would be the first in the urban settings in the state to benefit from solar home lighting systems, to be provided to them by three NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). Read more here.
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