Water in Liberia
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BENIN, 2017/07/12
As the rainy season begins, United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has warned that additional than 5.6 million children are at increased risk of contracting waterborne diseases, such as cholera and diarrhoea infections, in conflict-affected areas of nations around Lake Chad.
The humanitarian agency said in a statement Saturday that the threat of disease outbreaks in Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria coincides with growing regional insecurity and increased people movements particularly in Nigeria's northeast.
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LIBERIA, 2014/02/23
The Government of Liberia through a partnership amongst the Ministry of Finance, General Services Agency (GSA) and the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) has begun the rehabilitation of 22 battered public latrines and 112 water kiosks in Monrovia to bring water sanitation and hygiene relief to targeted communities.
Under the government's sponsored "Monrovia Quick Impact Water and Sanitation" project, several existing latrines in deplorable and unhealthily sanitary conditions will be reconditioned.
The project seeks to develop water kiosks in the target communities to reduce water borne diseases inclunding enhance the availability of water and sanitation services to the people.
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LIBERIA, 2013/07/09
The only major City in Liberia, is returning to a zero level sanitation, barely four months next former City Major, Mary T. Broh, was forced to resign from the headship of the Monrovia City Council.
She restored by Cllr. Henry Reed Cooper, who a lot of see as a weakling at the same time as it comes to solving the garbage problem in Monrovia and its environs. Cllr. Cooper admitted recently to his inability to handle the affairs of the City Council at the same time as he appealed to the Home's Ways, Means and Finance Committee at the same time as he appeared before the Home to defend the corporation's budget.
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LIBERIA, 2013/04/12
The Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene (FISH) in Monrovia Project funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) was launched yesterday in the presence of over 40 people inclunding representatives of beneficiaries and development partners.
The Facility offers a €1.2-million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
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LIBERIA, 2013/04/12
The Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene (FISH) in Monrovia Project funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) was launched yesterday in the presence of over 40 people inclunding representatives of beneficiaries and development partners.
The Facility offers a €1.2-million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
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LIBERIA, 2013/04/12
The Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene (FISH) in Monrovia Project funded by the African Water Facility (AWF) was launched yesterday in the presence of over 40 people inclunding representatives of beneficiaries and development partners.
The Facility offers a €1.2-million grant to the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) to support a project aimed at increasing access to sustainable and affordable sanitation and hygiene services to over 800,000 urban slum-dwellers in Monrovia, Liberia.
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BOTSWANA, 2013/04/02
Access to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a universal human right and central to human wellbeing and development. From presently on 780 million people still receive drinking water from unimproved sources and 2.5 billion people continue to live without access to improved sanitation facilities. IDS' work on water and sanitation has been looking at what additional needs to be done, particularly through a new set of post 2015 development goals, to ensure that this right is enjoyed by amount.
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LIBERIA, 2013/02/08
United States Ambassador to Liberia Deborah Malac has alarmed that Children suffer and die from diarrhea, due to poor hygiene practices and unsafe water in Liberia, while women and newborn as well die from infections... At the climax of a three-day Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) joint review held at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex Thursday, Ambassador Malac observed that each day, women and girls disproportionally spent precious time collecting water for their family.
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LIBERIA, 2012/12/05
"The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado River, has proved popular with residents.
A visit costs five Liberian dollars, around eight cents, the price doubling if you as well want to take a bath with specially heated water from a local well.
