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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

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Providing water for people in Nicaragua

Waves for Water is a non-profit organization supported by Hurley International. It has recently been helping with access to clean water to poor communities in Nicaragua, through disctribution of filters, each of which enable a set up that provides 100 people with clean water. Read more here.

August 17, 2012

Water backpack to replace buckets for carrying water in developing world

Greif, a world leader in industrial packaging products and services, in collaboration with Impact Economics has launched PackH2O. PackH2O is a backpack made from flexible polyethylene with a replaceable PET inner liner, and is resistant to punctures. These backpacks will effectively replace buckets and other cumbersome water carrying vessels which […]

August 17, 2012

Using Nanobioengineering to treat water

Researchers of Germany’s Institute of Applied Microbiology have found a way to use engineered metal nanoparticles to treat water in such a way so as to inhibit the growth of bacteria in drinking water. Read more here.

August 17, 2012

People in Gaza pay high for clean water

The growth in Gaza’s population is unable to keep pace with the proportional development required. A new report by Oxfam suggests that Gazans face health risks due to lack of access to clean water, and are forced to spend up to a third of their income in accessing the same. […]

August 17, 2012

1 billion people without improved sanitation in South Asia

According to Media Scrapbook, South Asian nations have not done their part in providing improved water and sanitation facilities for their citizens. Some 700 million people practice open defecation, while a billion do not use improved sanitation practices. Read more here.

August 17, 2012

11 per cent of the world still lacks access to clean water

While in 2010 it was declared that about 89 per cent of the population of the world – 6.1 billion people had access to improved drinking water, 783 million people in the world still lacked access to safe drinking water. While the water MDG (Millennium Development Goal) may have been […]

August 17, 2012

Burma: Poor sanitation causes diarrhoea break out in Kachin camps

Many residents of the IDP (Internally Displaced Peoples) camps have been affected by the dismal combination of heavy rainfalls and poor sanitation methods. These conditions have led to a diarrhoea outbreak in the Kachin camps. Read more here.

August 17, 2012

India: Poor sanitation claimed 3000 lives in Alidabad district in the last 14 years

Lack of proper sanitation in Adilabad district has claimed about 3000 lives in the past 14 years. Conditions now remain the same as they have been since 1998. Read more here

August 17, 2012

Pakistan: Punjab to provide solar panels worth PKR 2 billion

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif declared that the government would be spending PKR 2 billion to provide solar panels to the people. Read more here.