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Water in Africa

  • Invest in Water Storage to Secure the Future

    AFRICA, 2013/04/23 Water and energy are fundamental to poverty reduction and economic transformation on the African continent. At the same time as experts, policymakers and high-level representatives met this week in Addis Ababa at a conference to discuss water storage and hydro development, the World Water Council was there to call upon them to take actions to prepare the world, as the completed is presently a poor guide to an uncertain next.
  • Public sector water distribution company

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2013/04/17 Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), the pan-African private equity firm, today announces that its portfolio company Finagestion, the African utility sector operating group, has been selected byREGIDESO (Régie de distribution d’eau), the DRC’s public sector water distribution company, for a three-year technical services arrangement. The arrangement is half funded by the World Bank as part of its Water Supply Project.
  • African Water Facility Launches the Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene in Monrovia Project

    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.
  • African Water Facility Launches the Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene in Monrovia Project

    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.
  • African Water Facility Launches the Fostering Innovative Sanitation and Hygiene in Monrovia Project

    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.
  • Africa : Universal Access to Water and Sanitation

    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.
  • Rain Water As Taps Run Dry

    TANZANIA, 2013/04/02 ARUSHA residents have presently been compelled to rely on the ongoing rains as their major source for domestic water since the city taps continue to run dry.A study around the urban precinct has revealed that a lot of people have started to harvest rain water from the roofs of their residential houses and storing them in large tanks or home devised containers.
  • Lake Malawi Mediation

    MALAWI, 2013/03/27  Over 2 million families who solely depend on Lake Malawi for their livelihoods are anxiously putting their hopes into an upcoming mediation between Malawi and Tanzania intended to put an end to a longstanding ownership dispute.
  • The 20th anniversary of World Water Day

    AFRICA, 2013/03/21 Today, on the 20th anniversary of World Water Day, WaterAid (http://www.wateraid.org) is calling on international leaders to support an ambitious target of providing access to water, sanitation and hygiene for amount Africans by 2030. The call comes as over 50,000 people take part in additional than 30 mass walking events across Africa to call on their governments to keep their promises on access to clean water and safe sanitation. 
  • The local Tanzanian community bordering Lake Nyasa

    MALAWI, 2013/03/07 The local Tanzanian community bordering Lake Nyasa is no nearer to considerate what the conflict between their country and Malawi is about, nor why so much is at stake, as mediation efforts between Malawi and Tanzania are expected to begin any minute at this time.