Global IssuesNews headlines for “Water and Development”, page 2
A Cuban Town Improves Water Quality Through Desalination
- Inter Press Service
BAYAMO, Cuba, Sep 09 (IPS) - Overnight, hundreds of people in the rural community of Las Mangas, located in Granma province in eastern Cuba, realised something they had already suspected: that the water they had been drinking for decades was not exactly crystal clear, but rather "salty", as they say.
Climate Change Exacerbated Flash Floods in Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 06 (IPS) - Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country's worst climate disaster in recent memory. These recent floods follow the wake of Cyclone Remal, which devastated Bangladesh and West Bengal earlier this year.
Infection Rates Among Children Rage On in Gaza
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (IPS) - As the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues to grow more dire, so does the spread of illness among Palestinian children. Already facing widespread malnutrition, starvation, dehydration, and unhygienic living conditions, hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza face the risk of contracting a multitude of diseases.
Clean Energy Boosts Autonomy for Brazilian Women Farmers - VIDEO
- Inter Press Service
ACREUNA / ORIZONA, Brazil, Aug 26 (IPS) - A community bakery, family production of fruit pulp, and the recovery of water springs are some of the initiatives of the Energy of Women of the Earthorganised since 2017 in the state of Goiás, in central-western Brazil.
Micro-Dams, a Solution to Water Shortages in Rural Brazil
- Inter Press Service
SETE LAGOAS, Brazil, Aug 18 (IPS) - Water shortage is over, springs have emerged or become perennial, small ponds with fish have formed and pastures have become greener and more permanent, all thanks to the ‘barraginhas', the Portuguese name given in Brazil to micro-dams that retain rainwater and infiltrate it into the soil.
Water Stories: The Well Seven Families and 400 Buffaloes Rely On
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Aug 07 (IPS) - In the rural village of Khardariya in the Dang district of Nepal, access to clean water is a major issue. Villagers depend on one poorly managed well for drinking water, cleaning, and feeding livestock.
How Women Water Volunteers Help Shape India’s Water Future
- Inter Press Service
BHUBANESWAR, India, Aug 02 (IPS) - “Daily squabbles at the lone water point in Bhubaneswar’s slums, where hundreds of households depended on this single non-potable water source, have now receded into the past,” says Aparna Khuntia, a member of a large cohort of water volunteers who have played an important enabling role in ensuring households in the eastern India city now have their own on-premises potable running tap water available all 24 hours.
Life or Energy: The Hydroelectric Dilemma in Amazonian Brazil
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Jul 28 (IPS) - The decade-and-a-half-long battle for life in the so-called Volta Grande (Big Bend) of the Xingu river, a stretch of the river dewatered by the Belo Monte hydroelectric power plant in the Brazilian Amazon, has a possible solution, albeit a partial one.
Belém Improving to Host 2025 Climate Summit in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
BELÉM, Brazil, Jul 25 (IPS) - Hotels and other amenities may be lacking for participants at the 30th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP30), in this northern Brazilian city in late 2025, but the bottom line is they will have a unique experience in the Amazon.
Southern African Drought: Extreme Hardship, Hopefully Only in the Short Term
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Jul 23 (IPS) - Heading into the traditional dry period of winter in southern Africa, there was significant consternation due to the drastically below average rainfall the region has been experiencing since January 2024.
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