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Iraq, Kurdistan: Fears of Cholera Epidemic
09 May 08
A rash of patients hospitalised with diarrhoea and vomiting in northern Iraq has raised fears of a cholera outbreak across the region. In April 2008, the main hospital in Sulaimaniyah received an average of 25 patients per day with such symptoms - which are very similar to those associated with cholera. While no cases of [...]
Palestine: Gaza’s sewage ‘tsunami’
23 Apr 08
(…) Until that day their home was just downhill from a deep pond of sewage, pumped into a depression in the dunes and held there by earth walls because the water authorities in the Gaza Strip had nowhere else to put it.‘Wall of human waste’On 27 March 2007, the walls gave way. Aziza heard someone [...]
Yemen: Water Sector Support Program
09 Apr 08
This proposed World Bank-supported programme aims to improve access to water supply and sanitation services, increase returns to water use in agriculture, and strengthen sector institutions for sustainable water resources management and environmental protection. This will be achieved through a sector-wide approach (SWAP) aligned behind the National Water Sector Strategy and Investment Program (NWSSIP, 2005). [...]
Doing things differently : stories about local water governance in Egypt, Jordan and Palestine [publication]
07 Apr 08
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Palestine: Gaza forced to pump more raw sewage into sea
20 Mar 08
JERUSALEM/GAZA, 10 March 2008 (IRIN) - As temperatures rise after the winter, more people in Israel and the Gaza Strip will head for the seaside but they should beware: Gaza is being forced to dump much more raw sewage into the Mediterranean than before, environmentalists told IRIN.Since Israeli-imposed fuel restrictions began in 2007, limiting the [...]
WaDImena Water Demand Management Research Series
17 Mar 08
The Regional Water Demand Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (WaDImena) has launched a new research series. The following four working papers can been published:Working Paper 4: Institutions for Effective Water Demand Management by David Brooks, Hani Abu Qdais and Sarah WolfeWorking Paper 3: Gender & WDM in MENA region by Lamia El [...]
Iraq: Baghdad residents’ health at risk for lack of water, sewage systems
17 Mar 08
BAGHDAD, 16 March 2008 (IRIN) - When Wafaa Dawood Salman was found dead in August 2007 she seemed no different from the others who had died in Iraq - her body was put in a plastic bag and sent to the morgue for relatives to collect. Days later it was announced that the 40-year-old woman [...]
Iraq: Halliburton delivers US troops dangerous water
14 Mar 08
New Inspector General report finds that Halliburton delivered contaminated water to US bases in Iraq[The Real News] Tuesday March 11th, 2008Senator Byron Dorgan held a press conference in the US Senate to discuss a recent report by the inspector general, a report that found that US contractors had been delivering contaminated water to US troops [...]
Algeria: A Drought-Proof Water Supply for Algiers
11 Mar 08
ALGIERS, Algeria, February 25, 2008 (ENS) - One of the largest seawater desalination plants in the world was officially opened in Algiers on Sunday by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and a senior executive of the U.S.-based General Electric Company, which built and will operate the plant. The new $250 million facility will supply the drought-stricken, thirsty [...]
Yemen: Sanitation services limited, sewage treatment plants poor
07 Mar 08
SANAA, 5 March 2008 (IRIN) - Sanitation services in Yemen are limited. Almost all villages in rural areas, where 75 percent of Yemen’s 21 million people live, still use traditional means: Sewage is either dumped in watercourses or piped onto open ground.Officials at the Ministry of Water and Environment said the government was striving [...]
