Posts Tagged ‘Water’

Three months without water and still waiting

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Resident in the squatter settlement of Tauvegavega in Ba are calling for help after three months without water Ashok Kumar, a resident in the area said even before the floods hit the area, there was no water in the taps. “There has been no water in the day or night and as a result the residents Read more

Poor to wait 200 years for sanitation

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Global efforts to increase access to clean water favours the middle-classes and ignores most of those in need. WaterAid Charity says a global plan to halve the number of people without access to sanitation by 2015, is failing so badly that some of the world’s poorest countries will not have this basic necessity for another Read more