Posts Tagged ‘water’
Stakeholder Community Meeting on Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition and Water Security
Organized by USAID Stakeholder Community Meeting on Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition and Water Security July 30, 2020 RSVP Join us in our next discussion on July 30, in which we will be exploring how we can mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on global food, nutrition and water security, including through improved…
Read MoreGirl Strong: Promoting global access to water, sanitation and hygiene for women and girls everywhere
This year, WaterAid was #GirlStrong for #WorldWaterDay for the women and girls who spend 40 billion hours collecting water every, single year. Girl Strong highlights a renewed commitment to the incredible strength women and girls all over the world are forced to exhibit on a daily basis. Girl Strong isn’t just a catchy slogan or…
Read MoreOrganizations Make WASH a Top Priority
By Andrew Cooney, Global Health Council In the wake of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), great strides were made in the area of improved access to clean water. However, this success did not, unfortunately, translate when it came to sanitation and hygiene.[i] As a result, last year when the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were developed, a…
Read MoreWater Failures Are Putting the World’s Health at Risk
This op-ed was cross-posted from TIME Magazine, and written by Dr. Christine Sow, President and Executive Director of GHC, and Susan Barnett, Founder of Faiths for Safe Water ‘This is not an expensive, high-tech problem; it’s a problem of prioritization’ The world reacted in horror and indignation this week when a reporter posted a photo of a…
Read MoreWaterAid leads effort to provide water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities in Mali
This success story was provided by GHC member, WaterAid In January 2015, with the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and in partnership with the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, WaterAid began a three-year initiative to improve access to drinking water and sanitation in rural healthcare facilities in…
Read MoreThe Fundamental Question About Water
By Hope Randall, Communications Associate, Defeat Diarrheal Disease (DefeatDD) Initiative, PATH. This blog was cross-posted from the Huffington Post. “What can we do without water?” In Nthalire, a remote, dusty village in Malawi, a school teacher asks the obvious question in a classroom with too many empty desks. People are remarkably resilient in less-than-ideal circumstances, but it…
Read MoreWomen and Water in Kenya
This blog was cross-posted from International Medical Corps. In Kenya, a woman is burdened with the important chore of collecting, managing, transporting and storing water. This can be an incredibly challenging task in Samburu County in northern Kenya, one of the driest areas of the country often plagued by water shortages. Sometimes it will not rain…
Read MoreComing Soon: Globalization and Health’s Special Issue on Climate Change
In 2012, Globalization and Health will publish a new special issue “Climate Change and Global Health: Implications for Human Health and Health Systems.” This new issue will explore the ability of health systems to respond to potential disasters linked to climate change. Climate change contributes to extreme weather conditions and significant changes in precipitation, which in turn…
Read More328 Million Africans Without Safe Water, But Hope Survives
This guest blog was written by Jena Nardella, co-founder and executive director of Blood:Water Mission. Blood:Water Mission, the organization I co-founded, has been working in dozens of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including a Kenyan region overlooked by governments, charities and markets. This region, the Marsabit district in the northern part of the country, sits close…
Read MoreResponding to the Urban Challenge – World Water Day 2011
The observance of World Water Day this year with its spotlight on urban emergencies – such has the one in Haiti The observance of World Water Day this year with its spotlight on urban emergencies, comes at a time when many humanitarian aid and relief organizations are contemplating – in some cases, studying in-depth –…
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