Money has been raised to help draw up plans for a major water and sanitation project. The Asian Development Bank helped to pool together several loans to help fund the project. The total money that will be loaned is 1.5 million dollars.The money will be used to draw up plans for water and sanitation for an area in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. As the local governments don't have the money to do a big project themselves. 200,000 people in 9 different towns will benefit from the project. The bank believes those towns could become tourism or transportation hubs when the right infrastructure is in place.Again, this is just for drawing up the plans, I imagine more fund raising will have to be done to actually install the water works. Here is a snippet from the ADB's press release that details...
from IPP Media This story details the challenges of water and sanitation programs in Tanzania. - Kale By Perege GumboAs 50 percent of Tanzania`s population remains below poverty line living on less than 1 US dollar per day, poverty becomes the number one concern of government.However, with over 80 percent of the poor being in rural areas depending on agriculture for survival, how could good water development and management unlock the majority of people from abject poverty? Staff writer Perege Gumbo reports:THE Tanzania`s Reduction Strategy Paper (PSRP) and the development Vision 2025 testify inalienability of water from the country`s development.The two documents show clearly that for Tanzania to achieve its development aspirations-eradicate poverty, attain water and food security,...
from M Liveby Matt Vande Bunte | The Grand Rapids PressCASCADE TOWNSHIP -- Plastic pellets, heated to 450 degrees, shot into a 1,760-ton press. After cooling for a minute, out dropped a bucket.A plastic filter made at Cascade Engineering Inc. may be just a drop in the bucket for the world's 1.1 billion people lacking clean water. But local backers say it is poised to make a big splash in global health and the local economy."We're on the verge of this just going gangbusters," said Robert Goodwin, chief operating officer of Spring Lake-based International Aid.Saturday is the United Nations' World Water Day, and a pair of local ventures merging business and faith-based aid are playing a role.In partnership with Cascade Engineering, International Aid is raising money to place HydrAid bio-sand...
Bottled water is deeply environmentally damaging [search] and purchasing bottled water faces a backlash [ark] from an increasingly ecologically literate public. Water bottles number in the billions -- using petroleum in their construction, and taking up landfill space. Water needs to come from somewhere, and too often tap water is merely bottled and then driven long distances. We need to be concerned with maintaining our regional watersheds -- making sure our own tap water is safe and clean [search] -- rather than thinking we can continue to exploit mythologically pure bottled water from exotic locales. After drinking bottled water for years, an acquired taste we thought healthful, my family and I have happily converted back to using tap water. We tested the water prior to doing so and it...
from This Day OnlinePresident Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said the fight against poverty could not be said to have succeeded, until “wholesome drinking water” was provided in every home.Obasanjo said this as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) declared that 40 million Nigerians, representing 35 per cent of the country’s population still lack access to safe water.Obasanjo, who yesterday in Abuja launched the 2006 Human Development Report (HDR) with the theme: “Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis,” said, “we cannot really say we are succeeding in our fight against poverty until we can get wholesome drinking water to everyone where he lives, and that is our objective.“The global water crisis casts a shadow on sustainable development in...