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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, is participating in the 9th Africa Water Week and the 7th Cairo Water Week which is underway in Cairo, Egypt

©- - 16 october 2024 - 09:04:46 - thread (338 words)


Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (PANA) - The African Development Bank, in partnership with the Nordic Development Fund and the Government of Denmark, will roll-out a programme to strengthen access to climate-resilient water and sanitation resources in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger and Somalia

©- - 09 september 2021 - 13:54:58 - thread (335 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Tripoli's drinking water supply from the artificial river will resume from this Sunday evening after the discharge of water in Sidi Al-Sayeh reservoir supplying the city, the Implementation and Management Authority of the artificial river project has announced

©- - 22 august 2021 - 14:48:07 - thread (230 words)


Paris, France (PANA)  -  The Senegalese Ministry of Water and Sanitation and the SUEZ Group signed here Tuesday a leasing contract for the management of the public service for the production and distribution of drinking water in urban and peri-urban areas in Senegal

©- - 31 december 2019 - 23:26:00 - thread (261 words)


Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Residents of Ramokgonami in central Botswana have been assured that the ongoing US$28 million Mahalapye water treatment plant expansion project would improve the water situation in the Sefhare/Ramokgonami constituency

©- - 17 september 2019 - 17:53:29 - thread (385 words)


Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The General Water Resources Authority of Tripoli announced on Thursday the resumption of water supply to the capital, specifying that the service will gradually reach the rest of the regions and cities
©- - 04 july 2019 - 17:48:13 - thread (310 words)


Brasilia, Brazil (PANA) - The World Water Council (WWC) on Monday renewed its appeal to governments of all countries to make of the access to water for every human their first priority through the increase in investment budgets in water sustainable infrastructure
©- - 19 march 2018 - 13:33:56 - thread (363 words)


Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenyan Government is gazetting 70 water towers in different parts of the country in order to ensure that water production is boosted for now and posterity
©- - 12 march 2018 - 15:15:27 - thread (562 words)


Lilongwe, Malawi (PANA) - Half a million residents of Malawi’s capital city, Lilongwe, are set to benefit from improved water services and safely managed sanitation through a US$100 million project financed by the World Bank
©- - 21 december 2017 - 18:41:24 - thread (394 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Warning that as many as 600 million children – one in four worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely scare water by 2040, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday called on governments to take immediate measures to curb the impact on the lives of children
©- - 22 march 2017 - 20:12:53 - thread (447 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The High Level Panel on Water, consisting of 11 sitting Heads of State and Government and one Special Adviser, on Wednesday in New York issued a Call to Action for a fundamental shift in the way the world looks at water
©- - 21 september 2016 - 19:34:25 - thread (606 words)


New York, US (PANA) - As the World Water Week kicks off, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has highlighted that the opportunity cost from a lack of access to water disproportionately falls on women and girls who collectively spend as much as 200 million hours or more than 22,800 years every day collecting this vital resource
©- - 30 august 2016 - 13:52:45 - thread (578 words)


New York, US (PANA) - Although the world's water supplies are expected to remain sufficient for a global population of nine billion in 2050, continuing over-consumption and the impact of climate change will diminish their availability in many of the planet's neediest regions, according to a new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report
©- - 14 april 2015 - 15:33:40 - thread (484 words)


New York, US (PANA) - The international community must gear up for a new era of "hydro diplomacy" as the threat of water scarcity risks plunging the world into a period of geopolitical tension and stunted development, UN Deputy Secretary-General, Mr
©- - 30 march 2015 - 20:26:17 - thread (789 words)


Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Mauritian Government has announced that despite the decrease in oil prices on the world market, the prices of petroleum products will remain unchanged in the island for the time being, indicating that money raised from the current prices will go into the Build Mauritius Fund and finance priority projects -- water and other key development projects, PANA reported Wednesday
©- - 21 january 2015 - 12:36:35 - thread (244 words)


Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The persistent scarcity of potable water in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has triggered widespread anger and frustration among the residents, in particular those living on the hills and who have no access to water provided by the public utility company Guinean Water Society (GWS), PANA reported from Conakry
©- - 04 august 2014 - 11:18:17 - thread (398 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Germany will donate 30 million euros to Burundi to enable the African country fund its hydro-electric infrastructure, PANA reported from here, quoting the Burundi Finance Minister, Abdallah Tabou Manirakiza
©- - 04 december 2013 - 14:47:48 - thread (188 words)