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THE Minister of Water and Environment Maria Mutagamba, on Tuesday commissioned the Kasambira Water System project in Kamuli district.
Bulawayo was for a long time regarded as the cleanest city in the country and it was a marvel to visitors from all walks of life.
AT least one person has been reported dead of suspected cholera among the Congolese refugees who entered Uganda on Tuesday.
Favorable conditions for rain will be confined to the northeastern parts of Namibia today, weatherman Victor Kaurimuje said yesterday.
The cholera outbreak in Guro district, in the central Mozambican province of Manica, which began in late October, has now spread to new areas surrounding the villages of Chinda, Thanda, Bunga, and Nhamassonje, but no new deaths were recorded, reports Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily 'Noticias'.
The Adkan Estate Residents Association, Gwarimpa adopted strict measures that would stop residents from using metal drums for waste collection and direct dumping of waste on the ground.
Disturbed by the indiscriminate dumping of refuse on the streets of the state capital, Katsina, wife of the state governor, Hajiya Fatima Shema, plans to erect street waste hangers in the city.
Members of the Bidho Construction Company alongside their active participation in the construction of the Egla-Foro road have constructed a water reservoir with a capacity of holding 100,000 cubic meters of water in Dirar-Mengo, Adi-Keih sub-zone.
The Federal Government, in her effort, to boost environmental sanitation and safety, will introduce robust integrated waste management across 15 urban cities in the country.
The P80 million water project corruption scandal at the Department of Water Affairs is expected to attract 16 witnesses when the trial resumes, it has been announced.
The Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) plans to duplicate its North-South Water Carrier (NSWC) Scheme to mitigate the effects of drought.
Classic Beverages Nigeria, makers of La Casera has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of Nirvana table water.
The governor of southern Huila province, Isaac Maria dos Anjos, recently spoke of the need for the construction of one more dam on the Tchimpumpunhime river, to support farming activity at Humpata some 22 kilometres south of the provincial capital city, Lubango.
WATER is indispensable to economic and social development in many ways.
FIGHTING between the Congo government army and the rebels flared up recently sending refugees into Uganda. Mathias Mugisha is at the Uganda Congo border following the story.
Over the years, the issue of how to manage domestic waste in Nigeria has remained a major policy problem, which successive administrations-both military and civilian-failing to tackle the problem, despite the huge funds allocated to it by government. The reason being that experts in waste management have identified waste as a phenomenon which has many problems, ranging from economic, ...
WATER has been called the oil of the 21st century, with all the political and economic pressures accompanying that.
THERE is no official tally of innocent lives which have been lost to the cholera outbreak in Harare and smaller urban settlements because our rulers are still in denial.
THE Zanu PF politburo was on Wednesday presented with a shocking report on cholera deaths, suggesting that hundreds of people could have died across the country due to the outbreak of the water-borne disease.
GOVERNMENT has set up an inter-ministerial taskforce to spearhead the battle against the outbreak of cholera that has rocked Harare and three other provinces.
Tax financing has been identified as the most sustainable form to support and improve sanitation services in Ghana.
MSF teams are continuing to work in Goma and in other parts of North Kivu. The organization remains very concerned about the many people still on the move, fleeing ongoing fighting. Many of the displaced and local residents continue to be in urgent need of food, clean water, healthcare and basic items like blankets and shelter materials.
About 30 armed men in the early hours of Monday forcibly took away two electricity generators powering Kano State's Danbatta water plant. The hoodlums stormed the plant in two lorries.
NAMWATER'S ambitious plan to build a seawater desalination plant for N$1,48 billion just north of Swakopmund will be reviewed and a specially appointed National Desalination Task Force (NDTF) will now look into the matter.
Former Minister of Water resources and Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Barrister Muktari Shehu Shagari has stressed the need to split his former Ministry from the Agriculture and Natural Resources Ministry.
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