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Rising health risks for children across Afghanistan due to disruption to n
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], December 24 (ANI): Children across Afghanistan are increasingly vulnerable to disease and illness due to the deadly combination of rising malnutrition, an unprecedented food crisis, drought, disruptions to vital health and nutrition centres, lack of access to and poor qu
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Over 4 million Lebanese to run out of water in coming days over power shor
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], August 22 (ANI/Sputnik): More than 4 million people in Lebanon are at risk of losing access to safe water supply in "the coming days" due to electricity shortages that hinder water and sanitation services, UNICEF reported on Saturday.
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FC holds meeting with Jal Shakti ministry on grants for provision of drink
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission N. K. Singh and other members on Wednesday held a meeting with Gajendra Singh, Minister of Jal Shakti and his team of officials over the issue of FC grants to Rural Local Bodies for provisions of drinking water and san
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Conference discusses behaviour change, citizen participation for inclusive
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 28 (ANI): A two-day conference on `Future of Urban Sanitation in India' laid thrust on encouraging people's engagement with urban policy frameworks and to invest in local development planning.
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2.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water globally: UN
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], June 19 (ANI): Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have access to safely managed drinking water services, while 4.2 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation services, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nat
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Swachh Bharat could help avert over 3L deaths: WHO
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): If India remains committed to achieving 100 per cent coverage in terms of safe sanitation services by October 2019, as many as 3,00,000 deaths caused due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mi
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