Water

News Hour: When it comes to using X-rays to check a woman’s reproductive system in search of a cause for her infertility, oil turns out to be better than water. A new study concludes that when...

News Hour: Some 600 million children – or 1 in 4 children worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, according to a UNICEF report released on World Water Day. The...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Nepal today celebrated the breakthrough of the first key section of the Melamchi Tunnel. When completed, the Melamchi Tunnel will carry to Nepal’s thirsty Kathmandu...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Georgia have signed a $99 million ADB loan to upgrade water supply, sewerage, and sanitation systems for nearly 62,000 households in the secondary towns of...

News Hour: Through a multitranche financing facility to the Republic of Fiji for the Urban Water Supply and Wastewater Management Investment Program, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help deliver vital urban infrastructure and services to...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF)–Mongolia signed a cooperation agreement to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in schools and dormitories located in rural remote areas of the western...

News Hour: Food, shelter and clean water are needed urgently by people in southern Haiti following the destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew last week. Oxfam fears that the current death toll of at least 800 will...

News Hour: The IOM Regional Office in Nairobi is coordinating a Global Solar and Water Initiative, currently funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), to mainstream the adoption of renewable energy (solar) in water...

News Hour: Every day, 20 million people are drinking water full of dangerous levels of poisons. The vast majority even don’t know they are doing so. It kills an estimated 43,000 people in Bangladesh every year,...

News Hour: Eighteen-year-old Kadija owns a café in Lalibela, an Ethiopian town that has suffered greatly as a result of droughts caused by the El-Nino weather phenomenon. Her business and personal life are recovering beacuse of...