Water Scarcity

By Sakeus IikelaTHE Windhoek municipality's chief executive officer Robert Kahimise said the city will introduce stricter water-saving measures as of 1 June 2019 to reduce excessive water consumption as he declared a water crisis. He made the announcement at…

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Clean PowerPublished on May 10th, 2019 | by World Resources Institute 0 May 10th, 2019 by World Resources Institute  Originally published on WRIs Resource Watch platform, a platform which features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of th…

1.Ripl, W. Water: the bloodstream of the biosphere. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 358, 19211934 (2003). 2.Lehner, B. et al. High-resolution mapping of the worlds reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management. Front. Ecol. Environ. 9, 494502 (2011). …

1.Ripl, W. Water: the bloodstream of the biosphere. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B. 358, 19211934 (2003). 2.Lehner, B. et al. High-resolution mapping of the worlds reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management. Front. Ecol. Environ. 9, 494502 (2011). …

Even as Tamil Nadu is reeling under a major water crisis, the Madras High Court has intervened, recommending that the state government make use of funds allotted to Members of Parliament and Members of the Legislative Assembly for regulating surplus water. Th…

By Jeffrey GogoMike (not his real name) lives with his mother in a 3-bedroomed house in Mabelreign. The mother is often away for days attending to her religious calling. A 22-year old bachelor rents a room on Mike's premises. He works in the mines outside Ha…

The deterioration in the humanitarian situation came earlier than expected. 2.2 million people will need urgent food assistance by July 2019 Below-average rains across most of Somalia during the 2018 Deyr (October-December), followed by harsh weather conditi…

By Kim HarrisbergJohannesburg — When a football field that stores and filters rainwater was installed at a school in South Africa, teachers noticed that the health and class attendance of pupils improved Sibusiso Mohlapi, a math and science teacher at Boshoe…

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has called on government and private sector employees through his social media platforms to participate in a new innovative humanitarian competiti…