Since its emergence in December 2019, the novel coronavirus has spread rampantly across the globe, overwhelming health systems and cratering the global economy. In the United States—where federal authorities have...
On World Water Day, UN warns that more than half the global population lacking access to safely managed sanitation Decades of chronic underfunding of water infrastructure is putting many countries at...
Women log 3,300 hours of work on farm labour during a crop season, compared to the 1,860 hours logged by men. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS. Feb 21 2020 (IPS) - Across cities...
Shortages of clean, affordable water threaten individual and public health in the troubled Southern African nation. In Zimbabwe, the task of gathering enough clean water to drink, cook and wash is...
America is going through a water crisis, and we’re going to face even more dire times if it doesn’t begin to change soon. According to the World Economic Forum, the global...
While the rich can drill wells and keep swimming pools filled, poorer residents line up for water and struggle to survive. A communal tap runs for people in an informal settlement...
FLINT, MI -- About 100 Flint residents affected by the city’s ongoing water crisis gathered to hear the advice of social justice attorney Ben Crump on Saturday, Dec. 7 at...
FAYOUM, Egypt (Reuters) - Ahmed Abd-Rabo used to get all the water he needed to feed his crops 50 km (30 miles) from Egypt’s River Nile. Then supplies in the...
The amount of lead in the water supply of major Canadian cities exceeded safe levels in hundreds of thousands of homes, a major investigation has found. Some areas showed lead levels...
