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Water scarcity may cause global instability, U.S. intelligence agencies say in report

U.S. intelligence agencies released a report on Thursday warning that "[d]rought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades, as developing countries scramble to meet demand from exploding populations while dealing with the effects of climate change," the Associated Press reports.

23 Mar 2012

Bringing together NTD and WASH sectors of public health

In this post in the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog, Stephanie Ogden -- a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and neglected tropical disease (NTD) consultant with Emory's Center for Global Safe Water, Children Without Worms, and the International Trachoma Initiative -- writes about a partnership among these organizations.

23 Mar 2012

World Water Day resources available from USAID, 'DataBlog'

USAID's water team on Thursday, World Water Day, published a new edition of their Global Waters Magazine to recognize the day, according to USAID's IMPACTblog.

23 Mar 2012

Clinton announces U.S. water partnership to address global water challenges

Speaking at State Department headquarters in recognition of World Water Day on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "announced a new partnership of organizations to apply the nation's abundant experience in water issues to solving global water challenges," according to IIP Digital.

23 Mar 2012

Efforts must continue to bring clean water, sanitation, food to the world

In a post on Science Blogs' "The Pump Handle," Liz Borkowski, a research associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, recognizes World Water Day, discusses the importance of access to clean water and sanitation facilities.

23 Mar 2012

MCC fact sheet details efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene

The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) provides a fact sheet detailing its efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the developing world.

23 Mar 2012

VOA News examines polio eradication efforts in Pakistan

VOA News examines polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, where "authorities say national pride is now at stake for polio eradication and they are hoping to overcome years of setbacks from natural disasters, misinformation and war."

22 Mar 2012

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad, writing, "Hovering at around 20 percent in some places, Kanem Region in western Chad is well-known for having some of the world's highest continual severe acute malnutrition rates," and, "unless something is done to improve the country's 'dysfunctional' health system (as described by half a dozen interviewees), these malnutrition rates are unlikely to change significantly."

21 Mar 2012

UNDP launches Global Water Solidarity Platform

The U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) recently launched the Global Water Solidarity Platform "at the World Water Forum in Marseille, France, where 20,000 participants from the private, public and non-profit sectors [met] to address the water crisis," according to a UNDP press release.

19 Mar 2012

People of faith can work together to make water safe worldwide

"We don't honor God when 4,500 children die every day -- but they do -- from the lack of something so simple, each of us takes it for granted: a safe glass of water," Rabbi Jack Bemporad, executive director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding, and journalist Susan Barnett write in Huffington Post's "Religion" blog.

17 Mar 2012

Indian Finance Minister's budget includes 58% increase for malnutrition programs

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's "budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition," with an increase for malnutrition programs of "58 percent in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion," the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports.

17 Mar 2012

Antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life

Widely used antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life, according to a University of British Columbia study.

17 Mar 2012

Cote d'Ivoire working to rebuild health care system under new presidential administration

"Ten months after the West African country of Cote d'Ivoire started to emerge from a presidential election crisis during which almost all hospitals and clinics had to shut down for a good six months because they had been vandalized, looted and occupied, the new government under President Alassane Ouattara is trying to make public health care a priority," including implementing "a new national health regulation, which came into effect on Mar. 1, that offers free health services to pregnant women, children under five years and people suffering from malaria," Inter Press Service reports.

15 Mar 2012

USAID annual letter discusses global health initiatives

PSI's "Healthy Lives" blog presents global health-related excerpts of USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah's annual letter that was published on March 9.

12 Mar 2012

Inter Press Service publishes two-part series on toilets, sanitation in post-earthquake Haiti

Inter Press Service has published a two-part series, made possible with support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Haiti, examining sanitation services in Haiti since the earthquake in 2010.

9 Mar 2012

World achieves MDG for safe water years before target date

"Developing countries have already achieved their 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of drastically reducing the number of people without regular access to improved drinking water, though much of the credit lies with India and China," UNICEF and the WHO said in a joint report on Tuesday, Reuters reports

7 Mar 2012

Meeting MDG safe water target cause for celebration, but more work remains to bring access to all

The achievement of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for safe drinking water "shows that where there is a will, it is possible to truly transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people for the better," Sanjay Wijesekera, chief of water, sanitation and hygiene for UNICEF, writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog."

7 Mar 2012

Sanitization News and Research

Water scarcity may cause global instability, U.S. intelligence agencies say in report

Bringing together NTD and WASH sectors of public health

World Water Day resources available from USAID, 'DataBlog'

Clinton announces U.S. water partnership to address global water challenges

Efforts must continue to bring clean water, sanitation, food to the world

MCC fact sheet details efforts to improve access to water, sanitation and hygiene

VOA News examines polio eradication efforts in Pakistan

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

UNDP launches Global Water Solidarity Platform

People of faith can work together to make water safe worldwide

Indian Finance Minister's budget includes 58% increase for malnutrition programs

Antibiotics may increase incidence and severity of allergic asthma in early life

Cote d'Ivoire working to rebuild health care system under new presidential administration

USAID annual letter discusses global health initiatives

Inter Press Service publishes two-part series on toilets, sanitation in post-earthquake Haiti

World achieves MDG for safe water years before target date

Meeting MDG safe water target cause for celebration, but more work remains to bring access to all

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