Tag: drinking water

• Friday, March 24th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Latin America and Caribbean: 37 million people lack drinking water

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) denounced this week that some 37 million people in the region lacked drinking water and cited climate change as a possible cause.

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• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Accelerated action needed to ensure safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene, WHO report

  

  Urgent action is needed globally and locally to achieve safe and sustainably managed water, sanitation and hygiene for all in order to prevent devastating impacts on the health of millions of people.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2022 - 07:05 UTC

  Mercosur countries “are not safe to drink the Water”, CDC advice for travelers

  

  In a long list of “countries where it is not safe to drink water”, figure all South American countries and Mercosur members with the exception of Chile.

• Friday, September 23rd 2022 - 18:12 UTC

  Uruguayan authorities tackle arsenic in drinking water

  

  Uruguayan authorities are reviewing their options to tackle the presence of arsenic in faucet water in various towns nationwide, it was reported this week.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Paraguayan indigenous group seeks help from Spain

  

  A Paraguayan indigenous community in the Chaco region has turned to Spain for help with the supply of drinking water and other basic resources following a lack of attention from local authorities, it was reported.

• Friday, November 13th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  Ortega's Nicaragua approves the privatization of drinking water services

  

  The Nicaraguan parliament, controlled by the party of leftist President Daniel Ortega, on Thursday, approved a reform that will open the door to the privatization of drinking water services in the Central American nation.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  “Contaminated drinking water” in Rio: run on bottled-water in supermarkets

  

  Widespread complaints over foul-smelling drinking water in Rio de Janeiro have triggered a run on supermarket bottled water, though the public utility denied any health risk on Wednesday.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 15:51 UTC

  Microplastics in drinking water, “low risk” for human health, says WHO

  

  Microplastics contained in drinking water pose a “low” risk to human health at current levels, but more research is needed to reassure consumers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Billions suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, says Unicef and WHO report

  

  Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a new report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed* drinking water services, 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed sanitation services, and 3 billion lack basic** hand-washing facilities.

• Thursday, April 13th 2017 - 07:17 UTC

  Radical increase in water and sanitation investment required to meet development targets

  

  Countries are not increasing spending fast enough to meet the water and sanitation targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on behalf of UN-Water – the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all freshwater-related issues, including sanitation.