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Water & Sanitation

Four billion people face severe water scarcity, study finds

The water scarcity crises is fast unfolding. Along with climate change, this can pose a grave threat to global peace and stability. According to...
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Water & Sanitation

Fresh World Bank funding for water in Africa, India

The World Bank Group has announced a significant boost in funding for water programmes Kenya, the Niger River Basin, Morocco and India to help...
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Water & Sanitation

Why Lagos should not privatise water, by ERA/FoEN

Deputy Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Akinbode Oluwafemi, at a media briefing in Lagos, lists reasons why the Lagos State...
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Water & Sanitation

World Toilet Day: BLF seeks National Toilet Summit

The Bread of Life Development Foundation (BLF), a Lagos-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has urged the Federal Government to immediately convene a National Conference on Access to...
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Water & Sanitation

Swedish water project wins Nordic fashion industry sustainability award

A collaboration for efficiency in water consumption, energy and chemical use in the textile industry won the prestigious 2015 Habit Fashion Award for Sustainability...
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Water & Sanitation

Lagos water boss resigns, activists call for probe

Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has commended Governor Akinwunmi Ambode for playing a pivotal role in spurring controversial former Group Managing...
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Science & Tech

Water found on Mars could be first signs of Martian life

NASA found evidence of liquid water on the Red Planet, which means there is the potential for life beyond Earth. We seem to discover water...
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Water & Sanitation

SIWI: Water critical to Sustainable Development Goals

About 193 world leaders will commit to 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Without water, however, these goals cannot be achieved. SIWI, in New York, will...
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