Tag:water shortage

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Bayelsa community suffers water shortage after crude oil spill from Shell facility

The people of Obololi Community in the Tarakiri clan of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area in Bayelsa State are appealing for portable water and...

Michael Simire - February 24, 2025

Climate Change

German President Steinmeier warns of conflicts over water shortages

The world faces a growing risk of interstate conflicts as water becomes scarcer due to climate change, German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warned on Friday,...

Michael Simire - June 23, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Acute water shortage: Any hope for Sabongida community?

In faraway New York in 2019, then Plateau governor, Simon Lalong, made one of the speeches that was expected to define his tenure as...

Michael Simire - June 11, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Lagos tasks stakeholders on better approach to water shortage

The Managing Director, Lagos Water Corporation (LWC), Muminu Badmus, has urged stakeholders and government at all levels to approach the problem of water shortage...

Michael Simire - February 15, 2023

Water & Sanitation

Nations urged to double efforts to save Lake Chad, curb migration

Countries in the Lake Chad region have been enjoined to double efforts to save the dwindling water body that is aggravating environmental degradation and...

admin - July 21, 2016

Water & Sanitation

Tough choices for Ethiopia’s Boricha district amid water shortages

In Boricha district of Ethiopia, women and children walk up to five hours to collect water from shallow and unprotected ponds which they share...

admin - June 13, 2016

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Privatisation not solution to lack of access to water, says forum

The Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) organised a Water Summit with the theme: Connecting Local Outrage to Global Resistance of...

Michael Simire - August 14, 2015