Close to 300 people have died, while more than three million others have been affected after tropical storm "Ondoy" (Ketsana) wrought havoc in metropolitan Manila and some provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon regions.Forty-two people were reported missing, while the...
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H20 Africa and WaterPartners Agree to Merge. The merged entity, Water.org, co-founded by actor Matt Damon and Gary White, will leverage nearly twenty years of innovation in the grassroots approach of both...
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There was a time when the young women in the village of Asgaon would judge a man by how much land he had, or whether he possessed a buffalo. Not any longer. Now they want something more...
Every now and then I'll hear something in the news that makes me proud that I am from Australia. Today Australia is pledging aid and money to those less fortunate in Zimbabwe. Australia has an embassy in...
November 19 is World Toilet Day! Founded by the World Toilet Organization, World Toilet Day aims to educate the Western world on the lack of basic sanitation for more than 2.5 billion people worldwide and...
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It is a huge number of untimely death, and the reason is investment of 4-5 dollar to buy water filters.This world is very very strange, the divide is growing day by day in every pssible form, and the...
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Opinion Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Now that BBQ season winds down, kids are home from summer camp, sandwiches the mainstay for any child as busy parents scramble to work, may have ill effects for kids,...
opinion by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3688 views | 34 recommendations | 14 comments
Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may...
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"Singapore (ANTARA News/DPA) - Polluted drinking water will kill around 1.6 million people this year unless governments make a concerted effort to clean up their supplies, a World Health Organization (WHO) official warned in a report published Monday.More than 4,000 people...
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The devastating effects of Cyclone Nargis could have a long-term impact on public health in the region and the WHO is concerned that poor sanitation and the lack of clean water could lead to outbreaks of disease....
Launched in 1992 by the United Nations General Assembly, the 16th edition of World Water Day takes place on March 22 (Saturday).
The focus this year is on clean water supplies and sanitation.
"Multiple 9/11s every day of the year
Almost 10 million children die needlessly every year.Why is there no war on this terror?by Shreeram Krishnaswami" "Another child will die in the time it takes to read this sentence. And the death of that child, a child who had a...
"On Christmas Day, the same day the tragic tiger event happened at the San Francisco Zoo, a horrific story seemed to fall through the cracks.
Tiger Found Shot To Death in Dallas, TX, the same day an escaped tiger...
"#1 Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Sources:
Buzzflash.com, July 18, 2005
Title: “Web of Deceit: How Internet Freedom Got the Federal Ax, and Why Corporate News Censored the Story”
Author: Elliot D....
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