Source - International News

Climate change: civil society does not neglect water in Copenhagen

08 Jan 10

Unlike the official UN climate meeting, the parallel civil society Klimaforum09 did not neglect the issue of water in Copenhagen.

Sanitation promotion: World’s Longest Toilet Queue

07 Jan 10

The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners on World Water Day. The campaigners are demanding that governments act to solve the global sanitation and water crisis, one month before the first High-Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water.

Water crisis: private sector solutions for closing the resource gap

05 Jan 10

The growing “water gap”, in which global water demand will be 40 per cent more than supply by 2030, can be closed by a combination of demand-side and supply-side measures, says a new report from the 2030 Water Resources Group. Such a balanced approach is four times cheaper than supply-side only measures like desalination.

Climate change: water evaporates from Copenhagen negotiations, say campaigners

12 Nov 09

The latest draft of the negotiating text on climate adaptation has deleted any clear references to water and its management, said campaigners at a pre-Copenhagen event in Barcelona.

Human rights: UN investigator tells of horrors and insanitary conditions of world prisons

12 Nov 09

Inmates at a prison in Uruguay can spend years in cells where temperatures rise to 60 degrees Celcius. They had to use the water in the toilets for drinking and defecate in plastic bags, which they later threw outside their cells.

Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done

12 Nov 09

Despite the existence of inexpensive and efficient means of treatment, diarrhoea kills more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, according to a new UNICEF/WHO report. Other research finds that diarrhoea kills 1.5 million over-five-year-olds – mostly adolescents and the elderly - in Africa and South-East Asia, more than three times more than previously thought.