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Press Release: Xylem Partners with UNICEF to Create a Brighter Future for 3.4 Million Children in India’s Most Vulnerable Communities
Partnership to Improve Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Awareness, Accelerating Progress Towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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- WASH
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Plastics in Soil Threaten Food Security, Health, and Environment: FAO
While plastic refuse littering beaches and oceans draws high-profile attention, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability, suggests that the land we use to grow our food is contaminated with even larger quantities of plastic pollutants.
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- Agriculture, WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- food security
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US Launches $45.5 Million Project To Improve Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Northern Ghana
The United States has announced to assist US$45.5mn over the next five years to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in Ghana.
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- WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- hygiene, sanitation, water
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Analysis: How Blue Bonds Promise To Boost Latin America’s Economy
The future prosperity of Latin America and the Caribbean will be closely linked to preserving and effectively exploiting its water resources.
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- WASH
- Region
- Latin America
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From Problem to Profit: Rewiring the E-Waste Value Chain in Africa
Africa is home to bountiful reserves of metals and minerals, but these resources have not unleashed widespread economic growth. However, as Anne Cathrine Garde and Blessing Layee-Maima Caine at the BESTSELLER Foundation explain, an “urban mine” is quietly growing on the continent, in the form of discarded electronic devices loaded with precious metals. They discuss how trailblazing trash entrepreneurs are tapping the riches sitting in Africa's overflowing landfills, and turning this problem into profit by rewiring the broken e-waste value chain.
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- Technology, WASH
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Why Water Is the Next Net-Zero Environmental Target
The UN, whose COP26 climate conference takes place this week, is predicting that there will be a 40% shortfall in freshwater resources by 2030.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
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- climate change
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Press Release: Tetra Tech Wins $25 Million Usaid Water and Sanitation Contract
Through the USAID Tanzania Water and Sanitation Activity, Tetra Tech’s team of industry leading water and sanitation experts will provide engineering and technical advisory services to strengthen Tanzania’s capacity to manage water resources.
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- Technology, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Investing $1 Per Person Per Year in Hand Hygiene Could Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives
All households in the world’s 46 least developed countries could have handwashing facilities by 2030 if the world invested less than US$1 per person per year, in hand hygiene.
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- WASH
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- hygiene
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