Water Scarcity

By Adela SulimanWajir — Camel milk has been dubbed "white gold" by food experts who say it could help conquer malnutrition and diabetes As day breaks over the sandy stretch of Kenyan desert, Salah Abdinoor Issack finishes his dawn prayers and will now spend …

New Delhi (CNN)Hundreds of empty plastic jugs wait in rows on the cracked, dry, dusty earth. Hovering expectantly nearby, the residents of Vasant Kunj slum in South Delhi, one of the city's largest and poorest, stand waiting for a government water tanker to a…

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…