Troubled Waters / World Water Day / IPS Inter Press Service

Homepage

Latest News

Languages

About Us

Thursday, September 02, 2010 20:29 GMT

- Mideast &
Mediterranean

Iraq

HIV/AIDS

- Arts &
Entertainment

U.N. Lagging on Water and Sanitation Development Goals
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations stands accused of marginalising water and sanitation in its much-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at improving the lives of billions of people in the developing world.
MORE >>

Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists
By Dahr Jamail
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi, U.S. - Another massive fish kill, this time in Louisiana, has alarmed scientists, fishers and environmentalists who believe they are caused by oil and dispersants.
MORE >>

ZAMBIA
Water Committee Prospers in Lusaka
By Brian Moonga
LUSAKA - Residents of Lusaka's George Compound remember the bad old days in the early 1990s, when the area suffered ugly outbreaks of waterborne diseases.
MORE >>

BOTSWANA
Acquiring a Taste for Recycled Water
By Alma Balopi
GABORONE - Many Batswana are quick to recoil at the mere mention of drinking treated wastewater.
MORE >>

US
Govt Claims Slammed as "Final Kill" Looms for Gulf Oil Leak
By Matthew O. Berger
WASHINGTON - Between April and August this year, 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. How much remains today is not yet clear and is a hot topic of debate among academic and government scientists.
MORE >>

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants
By Dahr Jamail*
BILOXI, Mississippi - The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.
MORE >>

MALAWI
Local Management the Tonic for Water Woes
By Charles Mpaka
BLANTYRE - Hop over a seep of filthy sludge behind a bathroom screened with ragged sacks, turn past the toilet with battered cardboard walls, crab between mud-brick shanties roofed with rusty metal... There: emerge into a small, neat yard where a dozen women and girls are filling plastic buckets from five water taps sticking out of concrete wall.
MORE >>

BRAZIL
Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon
By Mario Osava
ALTAMIRA, Brazil - "It's a fait accompli," acknowledges André Villas-Boas, head of the independent SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), resigned to the fact that the legal actions and protests have failed to block the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle region.
MORE >>

ZIMBABWE
Questions Raised Over Water Treatment Funding
By Mufudzi Moyo
HARARE - The memories of Zimbabwe's 2008-2009 cholera outbreak are fresh in the minds of everyone except the people who have the safety of the country's water in their hands.
MORE >>

Ocean Losing Its Green
By Stephen Leahy
VIENNA - The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital "red blood cells" have declined more than 40 percent since 1950 and the rate of decline is increasing due to climate change, scientists reported this week.
MORE >>

ZIMBABWE
Badly Needed Work Begins on Bulawayo Water System
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO - Dispersing feasting flies and angry residents from a manhole cover spewing sewage from people’s homes and into the road: another day in the working life of Njabulo Siziba. It's a dirty, frustrating, thankless job as a civil engineer for Bulawayo city council, but help is at hand for Siziba and the city he serves.
MORE >>

VENEZUELA
Chronic Oil Leaks Sully Lake Maracaibo, Livelihoods
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - Dark oil slicks are spreading from the middle of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo towards the shores -- the wetlands, mangroves, beaches and docks. Oil is permeating fishing nets, coating the garbage dumped into the water, killing off wildlife and driving away residents and tourists.
MORE >>

GUATEMALA
Reviving Lake Atitlán
By Danilo Valladares*
GUATEMALA CITY - "There are hardly any tourists now, and nearly all the hotels are empty," says Rosa Rosales, who works at the Hotel Pa Muelle, on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, a natural treasure that has been overcome by pollution.
MORE >>

Next >>

	News Feeds RSS/XML
	Make IPS News your homepage!
	Free Email Newsletters
	IPS Mobile
	Text Only

From drought to floods, from privatisations to citizen-led management, from toxic spills and devastation to sanitation and conservation, from water wars to water as a human right, IPS correspondents track the issues surrounding this precious liquid.

LEBANON: Rich Feast Through Month of Fasting

MIDEAST: Pessimistic About Peace, Yet…

U.N. Lagging on Water and Sanitation Development Goals

Environmental Forensics for BP Gulf Spill

Uganda Could Become Regional Rice Exporter say Researchers

ARGENTINA-BRAZIL: Nuclear Safeguards System an Example for the World

RIGHTS-INDIA: Law to Restrict Foreign Funding Alarms NGOs

PHILIPPINES: Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abortions

SRI LANKA: Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solution Unclear

Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case

More >>

AMERICAS: THE BATTLE OVER VENEZUELA
By Ignacio Ramonet

CUBA: STABILITY AND SECURITY
By Joaquin Roy

WE MUST UNRAVEL THE SECRETS OF NATURE TO SUPPORT LIFE AND THE PLANET
By Jose Mujica*

HUMAN RIGHTS SHOULD BE THE HEART OF THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
By Rowena McNaughton

MDGs: THE 2015 TARGET DATE LOOKS DIMMER THAN EVER
By Supachai Panitchpakdi

MORE >>

UN-Water

World Water Council

Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

International Rivers Network

Global Water Partnership

International Year of Sanitation

World Toilet Association

International Water and Sanitation Centre

World Bank Water Resources Management

IPS is not responsible for the content of external sites