News stories
News items on corruption issues and measures to promote transparency, accountability and integrity in the water sector from IRC's newsletter Source Weekly.
Water Corruption, Environment, Governance and Climate Change
18 Feb 10
Berlin, Germany, 29 March 2010
An Expert Consultation organised by the Water Integrity Network (WIN) to address the serious gap in knowledge and research on the nexus of water, climate change, governance and corruption.
Tanzania: water and sewerage authority ranks high in corruption “list of shame”
20 Jan 10
The Tanzanian water and sewerage authority ranks fifth in the corruption ‘List of Shame” published by the regional NGO Concern for Development Initiatives in Africa (ForDIA).
Afghanistan, Badakhshan: enclave seen as model for development
18 Dec 09
A recent New York Times article tells the story of how direct grants to a village council in Jurm, Badakshan province, have reduced corruption and helped the community set up and manage their own water system and to introduce education for girls.
Kenya: water ministry has lost millions
11 Nov 09
The Water ministry may have lost millions of shillings through unexplained payments to water drilling contractors. The ministry is hard put to explain the debts, which now exceed US$ 13 million and is suspected to have been lost at the National Water and Pipeline Corporation.
Ghana: inadequate water hampers school feeding programme
08 Oct 09
Recent research conducted by SEND-Ghana shows that 45% of schools in sample districts under the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) do not have access to water. .
Jamaica: water commission loses US$ 11.4 million due to fraud
07 Oct 09
Jamaica’s National Water Commission (NWC) has lost over US$ 11.4 million in revenue in 2009 due to fraud and theft, a local newsaper reported.
Kenya: Nairobi water board sent packing following reports on malpractices
04 Aug 09
The entire board of the Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company was sent packing over alleged mismanagement on 8 July 2009. A full council meeting of the City Council of Nairobi made the move citing unfair water rationing and illegal connections that have seen millions of cubic litres of water lost.
Nepal: “illegal” water trading common practice in rural areas
19 May 09
Drinking water sources located on public lands are being purchased and sold illegally for millions of rupees after old sources have dried up.
India, Kerala: government crack down on illegal sand mining
19 May 09
The Kerala State government is planning to amend legislation so that it can impose more severe punitive measures against illegal sand-miners. Indiscriminate river sand mining has resulted in a sharp fall in groundwater tables and acute drinking water shortages in several parts of Kerala.
India: Supreme Court issues notices to address manual scavenging
12 May 09
The Supreme Court has sent notices to the Delhi government and to district magistrates in over 25 districts in the states of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan about their failure to implement a central law against manual scavenging.
