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8 Sep 20
Lebanon’s failure to meet the World Bank’s conditions for the financing of a dam has led to the project being cancelled, losing the country millions of dollars as it still reels from the August...
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31 Oct 19
A $100m project in Bangladesh, financed by a loan from the World Bank, will result in an additional 600,000 people having access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation.
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30 Aug 19
The world is failing to provide safe water for the planet’s poorest communities by not investing enough and not deploying subsidies equitably, according to two global institutions.
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21 Aug 19
Poor water quality has reduced economic growth in some areas of the globe by a third, according to the World Bank.
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4 Apr 19
The lack of basic water facilities in one in four medical centres poses grave risks to the health of more than two billion people globally.
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3 Sep 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $100m loan to help with water shortages in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province.
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26 Feb 18
The Asian Development Bank has signed a $84m loan agreement with India to finance water supply improvements and urban services.
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29 Nov 17
The Asian Development Bank has approved an additional $120m in loans to bring drinking water to urban areas of Sri Lanka.
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22 Mar 17
One in four children around the world will be without access to safe water supplies by 2040, Unicef has warned on World Water Day.
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1 Nov 16
Global cities are likely to fall short on some key Sustainable Development Goals including child malnutrition and access to drinking water, housing and sanitation, a UK think-tank has warned.
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10 Oct 16
Damage from the deadly Hurricane Matthew, which destroyed much of Haiti last week, will run into the billions, according to estimates from a research and consulting firm.
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24 Jun 16
Directors of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank have today approved financing for the organisation’s first four projects, worth half a billion US dollars in total.
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24 May 16
The UK’s development agency needs to do more to ensure value for money and sustainability in its water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, the country’s Independent Commission for Aid Impact has said...
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4 May 16
Future water shortages could spur migration, spark conflict and knock more than 10% off the size of some regions’ economies, the World Bank warned today.
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22 Mar 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced $250m to support the treatment of harmful industrial wastewater and sludge in China.
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22 Mar 16
Almost half of the world’s population will suffer severe water shortages if current levels of consumption and pollution continue, the United Nations Environment Programme has warned.
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15 Jan 16
The African Development Bank has approved a $76.11m loan to help deliver a sustainable water supply and sanitation to four towns in Ethiopia.