Posts Tagged ‘ NGO ’

Population, Industrialisation Threats to Sanitation, Water Supply in Asia Pacific

A growing population and increasing industrialisation have been listed as the chief threats to water supply in the Asia Pacific, according to a UN-sponsored report released last month.

East Timor: NGO Calls for Action on Water and Sanitation Crisis

By Rich Bowden: More than twenty percent of the five thousand children who die every year in East Timor, do so through preventable diseases caused by poor sanitation and drinking unclean water, according to a new supplementary report released by aid agency WaterAid Australia. The NGO said despite poor or non-existent sanitation facilities being...