A message from Dr. Jennifer Blanke Vice-President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development African Development Bank The theme of this year’s World Water Day, observed on 22...
Water, essential to all life, plays a particularly important role in the lives of Tanzanians living near Mbarali River, part of the larger Rufiji River basin...
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a loan to China for Euro 89.10 million (US$100 million equivalent) to improve rural water supply and...
Against the extremely limited access to safe drinking water in Gaza, the World Bank today announced a US$15 million grant to the Water Security Development –...
In the past twenty years, virtually every country around the world has experienced natural calamities if we have experienced it in the form of drought, famine,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $27.4 million financing package to provide safe and reliable water supply and sanitation services to more than 64,000...
LI Yong, the Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) acted as a panelist during the opening session of Budapest Water Summit 2019,...
Water and sanitation subsidies are disproportionately benefitting the better-off, according to a new report from the World Bank. The study finds that across a number of...
Tiny plastic particles known as microplastics are “everywhere – including in our drinking-water”, but they are not necessarily a risk to human health, UN experts said...
The world faces an invisible crisis of water quality. Its impacts are wider, deeper, and more uncertain than previously thought and require urgent attention. While much...