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Aroosa Masroor for The Express Tribune KARACHI: The devastation from Pakistan’s “worst floods in living memory” could have been contained had flood-prevention projects been put in place, experts say. The government claims that nothing could have prevented the floods that have killed more than 1,600 people and made over a million people homeless. “These are [...]
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By OMAR WARAICH for Time The flood waters took Ehsan Ali and his family by surprise. “At first we thought that the water wasn’t so serious,” says the farmer, 44, who worked on the rice fields that stretch across Shikarpur district. “Then they suddenly made an announcement in the mosques, telling us to run for [...]
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Juliette Jowitt in Paris for The Guardian World Bank and OECD say water is a finite resource that must be valued at a higher price in order to repair old supply systems and build new ones Major economies are pushing for substantial increases in the price of water around the world as concern mounts about [...]
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A UN project aimed to help millions – but it brought them water contaminated with arsenic By Andrew Buncombe for The Independent Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of suffering early deaths because of arsenic poisoning – the legacy of a well-intentioned but ill-planned water project that created a devastating public [...]
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By Ari Rabinovitch for REUTERS A World Bank study in 2006 showed water lost in the system before it reaches the customer — known as “non-revenue water” — costs utilities at least $14 billion worldwide every year, largely from leaky pipes and poor maintenance. Most of the loss is in developing countries: 12 billion gallons [...]
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Paul Stewart in June 23rd 2009
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Tuesday, 23 June 2009 | Charles Sturt University Published in the latest issue of the international journal Conservation Letters, the research has implications for the employment of conservation and human development projects worldwide and for guiding investment decisions by global institutions such as the World Bank and World Wide Fund for Nature. “The services we [...]
Environmental Finance | New York, 9 October. The World Bank Group’s claim that it increased funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects by 87% is misleading because of the inclusion of large-scale hydropower projects and funding provided by a separate entity, say environmental observers. The seemingly impressive increase in investment also masks a larger [...]
Published by Steve Kretzmann | October 8th, 2008 | Oil Change International Relying exclusively on the World Bank’s own figures, a new analysis shows World Bank Group lending to coal, oil and gas is up 94% from 2007, reaching over $3 billion. Coal lending alone has increased an astonishing 256% in the last year. This [...]
