Africa

Watershedding: taps run dry across Johannesburg — unprecedented water crisis

Residents of the township of Soweto, South Africa, queue for water Saturday, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) JOHANNESBURG (AP)…

8 months ago

Water and women: we need to know more

Photo: © Caritas Internationalis. Justice for women in the access to water and sanitation will not be attained without more…

5 years ago

Kenya’s Water Women

https://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=4508772083001&usrPersonaAds=false In the western Kenyan town of Kakamega and the nearby village of Sisokhe, social worker Rose Atieno and nurse…

6 years ago

Senegal’s Sinking Villages

https://players.brightcove.net/665003303001/SJg0bzqkZ_default/index.html?videoId=5813026100001&usrPersonaAds=false Doune Baba Dieye was once a vibrant fishing community on the Langue de Barbarie, a narrow, 30km peninsula that…

6 years ago

Large hydropower dams ‘not sustainable’ in developing world

Photo: Problems at the Oroville dam in California in 2017 saw 10,000 people evacuated A new study says that many…

6 years ago