IPS Inter Press Service - Troubled Waters
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- EUROPE: Water Aid To Go Public, A Little
BRUSSELS, Mar 7 (IPS) - The European Commission has indicated that it will take steps to address claims that private firms have been given preferential treatment in a flagship aid programme for improving water services in Africa. - DEVELOPMENT-SWAZILAND: To Relocate or Not To Relocate?
MBABANE, Mar 3 (IPS) - Climate change appears to have permanently altered certain areas of east and southern Swaziland, where good harvests have not been achieved for over a decade. Agriculture officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) now question whether these areas can still support communities. - DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Full Dams Do Not Translate Into Water Supplies
HARARE, Feb 28 (IPS) - Heavy rains in Zimbabwe and in the catchment areas of its major rivers in December and January have filled most of the country’s dams to capacity. Yet, many urban households do not have water. - Q&A: "Simply Not Enough People Committed to Proper Water Management"
GRAHAMSTOWN, Feb 25 (IPS) - Following several incidents that have raised questions about water quality and distribution in South Africa, Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks has tried to allay fears about her department's ability to provide potable water to all South Africans. - HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Too Few Trained Personnel. Too Much Aluminium?
GRAHAMSTOWN, Feb 22 (IPS) - The precarious state of water distribution in Grahamstown, a city in the south-east of South Africa, was highlighted again this month when taps ran dry for almost two days (Feb. 8 and 9) in a large section of the city. Grahamstown's reticulation system has failed residents several times over the last fourteen months in terms of water quality and reliability of supplies. - ENVIRONMENT: First Map of Human Impacts on Oceans Released
BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 15 (IPS) - Oceans span nearly three quarters of the Earth's surface and despite this vast size hardly a square kilometre has been untouched by humans. - RIGHTS-NAMIBIA: Gov’t Considering Water Subsidies For Poor
WINDHOEK, Feb 5 (IPS) - The Namibian government, frequently accused of making water unaffordable to the poor, is finally taking steps to address this countrywide problem that threatens to hamper the country’s efforts to meet the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by world leaders at a special United Nations General Assembly meeting in 2000. - Q&A: ‘Water Meters Are Good for the Environment and Good for Wallets’
CAPE TOWN, Jan 29 (IPS) - Water shortage is not uncommon in Cape Town, South Africa. For the past years the warm summer months -- of November until February -- saw water restrictions imposed by the city authorities. The restrictions prohibited residents from using potable water for the irrigation of lawns and gardens as well as using hosepipes to wash motor vehicles, pavements, and any movable or immovable structure. - CLIMATE-MOZAMBIQUE: Once Again Flooding Brings Risk of Disease
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 28 (IPS) - Once again Mozambicans are assessing the damage left in the wake of devastating rains and burst river banks along the floodplains of the Zambezi, Búzi, Púnguè and Save Rivers. Nobody is sure how many people have perished in the most recent floods, but the final death toll could be well over one hundred. - DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Using Culture to Save Wetlands
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 26 (IPS) - Wetland conservation projects in South Africa have to take into consideration the culture, traditions and needs of local communities, according to Donovan Kotze of the University of KwaZulu Natal. He believes that the key to proper wetland management lies within communities living in and around these wetlands. - CLIMATE-NIGERIA: Inefficient Gas Flaring Remains Unchecked
LAGOS, Jan 10 (IPS) - "The Federal Government policy to stop gas flaring commences on Jan. 1, 2008, and any company which flares gas after that time would be shut down." This was the strong warning from the Nigerian government in October last year to multinational oil companies operating in the country. - SOUTH AFRICA: Government Set To Reach Sanitation Target. Is it Enough?
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 2 (IPS) - The South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry has narrowly missed one of its most important targets, aimed at improving sanitation for the country's poorest people -- but plans to make up the remaining ground soon. - DEVELOPMENT-BURKINA FASO: "Sanitation Costs a Lot, But It's Not a Luxury"
OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 31 (IPS/IFEJ) - For some in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, rainy seasons have spelt trouble -- at least from the point of view of sanitation. - ZIMBABWE: Good Intentions Plus Poor Implementation Equals Dry Taps
HARARE, Dec 30 (IPS) - A 20-litre bucket in hand, Abigail Shonhiwa ponders the stretch ahead in her journey to the next watering hole, a distance of about seven kilometres. Her suburb has been facing recurrent water shortages since 2000, in part because it is built on a plateau in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. - DEVELOPMENT-SOUTH AFRICA: Could Water Meters Be Unconstitutional?
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 28 (IPS) - More than 300 residents of Phiri, one of the poorest suburbs in Soweto, demonstrated outside the High Court in Johannesburg earlier this month to show support for a campaign to have pre-paid water meters declared unconstitutional. After a three-day hearing, the judge announced that he would make his findings known early in 2008.
