Water in Southern Asia

  • Asian water security risk

    ASIA, 2013/03/26 Additional than three-quarters of Asia-Pacific nations are experiencing a critical lack of water security, with a lot of facing a water crisis, an Asian Development Bank study says. It recommends ways to take action. "While the Asia-Pacific region has become an economic powerhouse, it is alarming that no developing country in the region can be considered 'water- fasten.' Nations must urgently improve water governance through inspired leadership and creative policymaking," an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official has warned. 

  • Insufficient, fragmented and misdirected investment in the water and sanitation sector

    NEPAL, 2013/01/05 Insufficient, fragmented and misdirected investment in the water and sanitation sector has hindered the fight against diarrhoea, leaving it of Nepal's leading child killers despite hundreds of millions of dollars having been invested, say practitioners.
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