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Life-saving action against cholera in DR Congo

23rd January 2012 | by unicef | Water | No Comments

MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 16 January 2012 – “At the beginning I thought she had just diarrhea, but when she didn’t stop vomiting I took her to the hospital, where they told me it might be cholera,” said Getou Bofala, 35. Report by Cornelia Walther
She had been sitting at the bedside of her [...]

In Ethiopia, UNICEF helps meet water supply challenges in drought-hit Raya Azebo district

4th July 2011 | by unicef | Water | No Comments

AZEBO, Ethiopia, 1 July 2011 – Tilalem Kiros, 13, a seventh grader in Raya Azebo district in the Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia, wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But she fears her daily struggle for water will ultimately prevent her.

VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on how lack of safe water [...]

World Water Day: In India a Women’s Group bands together to clean-up slum neighborhoods

22nd March 2011 | by unicef | Water | No Comments

Raw sewage bubbles up along the open sewers that line the narrow walkways of the slums of Moradabad known as mohallas. Hills of stinking garbage pile high in vacant lots, surrounded by wafting clouds of eager flies in the hot, humid air. Florescent green algae sprout over ponds of pooling fetid water. Report by Angela [...]

Simple solutions to provide safe drinking water to remote communities in Haiti

8th March 2010 | by unicef | Emergency, Haiti, Water | No Comments

UNICEF correspondent Thomas Nybo reports on efforts to get water to the most remote survivors of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake.
Simple plastic buckets and inexpensive water-purification tablets are being used to provide safe drinking water to people living in the mountains outside Leogane, an area that was close to the epicenter of [...]

Reaching the most remote Haitian earthquake survivors with safe water

1st March 2010 | by unicef | Emergency, Haiti, Water | No Comments

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Reaching the most remote Haitian earthquake survivors with safe water

LEOGANE, Haiti 26 February 2010 – Simple plastic buckets and inexpensive water-purification tablets are being used to provide safe drinking water to people living in the mountains outside Leogane, an area that was close to the epicentre of the earthquake that struck Haiti in [...]

Increase access to safe water in Haitian quake zone

3rd February 2010 | by unicef | Emergency, Haiti, Water | No Comments

UNICEF and its partners are now distributing more than 2.6 million litres of drinking water daily to over half a million people here in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and in the cities of Leogane and Jacmel.
UNICEF and Frechè Lokal (a water-purification and distribution company that is one of UNICEF’s private-sector partners in Port-au-Prince) have joined [...]

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