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Africa Nears Agreement on Continental Infrastructure Plan With Accord in MoroccoAfrican Development Bank | 31 Oct 2011The development of infrastructure is not something Africa can postpone. It is at the very core of the development of our continent to bring truly inclusive and sustainable economic growth over the long term. he said. PIDA (Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa) promotes the development of regional and continental infrastructure projects in transport, energy, information and telecommunications technologies (ICT), as well as trans-boundary water.
Morocco | Energy | Freshwater | Transport EGYPT: Major headaches for water plannersIRIN News | 18 Oct 2011SHARQIA 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Leaking water pipes, evaporation and a rapidly growing population may be significant concerns for those trying to manage and plan water supplies in Egypt, but compounding such problems - and forcing Egyptians to rethink how they use water - is the threat posed by downstream countries which also want to take more water from the Nile, say observers.
Egypt | Climate Variability | Freshwater Malawi: Miracle Man Eases Village's Water WoesInter Press Service | 21 Dec 2010Hermes Chimombo, a welder in his 50s, is a revered man in the impoverished Naotcha Township. Armed with rudimentary tools and a passion to ease peoples suffering, he has tapped a spring in the mountain above the slum to provide water for its 25,000 residents. Go back to 1998. On any given night,...
Malawi | Food Security | Freshwater Access to safe drinking water a human rightAfricaFiles | 20 Dec 2010Adopted in consensus, this resolution by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva affirms "that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity". AB
Access to Freshwater | Freshwater Water crisis in South Africa - opportunitiesAfricaFiles | 29 Nov 2010South Africa is a water stressed nation. The dams in that nation currently capture nearly 80% of available water to supply people and industries. This is the highest proportion of water capture of any nation. However, stewardship of this resource must be improved. There are examples in this article of inaction, but Ashton also proposes positive and attainable alternatives. AB
South Africa | Access to Freshwater | Freshwater Ethiopians want more from sacred Nile watersThe East African | 15 Nov 2010Here in the shadow of Mount Gish, the spring water that forms the Blue Nile is believed to have healing powers, but Ethiopians say that is the only benefit they get from the mighty river. "These waters are sacred, they perform miracles for the sick," Berhanu Melak, an elderly farmer, told AFP as he filled a metal trough with water for the throngs of white-cloaked men and women who have been queuing since the early hours in this town 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia | Freshwater | Health and Environment KENYA: Water suppliers "unfair to the poor"IRIN News | 09 Nov 2010NAIROBI, 8 November 2010 (IRIN) - The poor in Kenya pay more for water than the rich, but even then millions do not have enough, mainly because provision is skewed, an advocacy group has said. "The absence of a formula-based approach to budget allocation at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation has led to large inequities for water access in Kenya, with the poor paying more compared with the rich...
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