Water

Raymond Mhaluka Raymond Mhaluka July 04, 2018 Cholera incidents in Songwe District of Songwe Province were an issue towards the end of last year and well into the beginning of 2018. The cause for these infections was the lack of access to clean water by villagers. However, they were equipped with basic sanitation skills to […]

Konjit Teshome The World Heritage Committee that met in Manama, Bahrain recently decided to inscribe Kenya’s Lake Turkana National Parks on the List of World Heritage in Danger, notably because of the impact of a dam on the site. Lake Turkana National Parks is a group of three national parks located around Lake Turkana in […]

Konjit Teshome Amhara region authority of environment, forest and wild animals said that unless measurements can be taken to control the invasive water hyacinth in lake Tana, it might occur in other areas of the country and cause destruction.

Konjit Teshome   It was the area where formerly known for being centre of recreation by traditional and motor boats and giving astonishing landscape to walk all around the edge of the lake. But, now almost nearly 80 percent of the land formerly constituted by water body of the lake is dried and serving as […]

UN environment How women are pushing national change in one of Africa’s smallest nations. While the idea of an island may call to mind the image of a beach paradise, for the world’s 51 Small Island Developing States this is all too often a fragile idyll. Small, often economically at the mercy of their larger […]

Kylie Kiunguyu By Kylie Kiunguyu on May 11, 2018 —  Egypt and Ethiopia are at odds over the construction of the Grand Renaissance Dam, a US$4 billion hydroelectric project that may reduce the Nile water that feeds into Egyptian fields and reservoirs from Ethiopia’s highlands and via Sudan. Ethiopia contributes 86% of the Nile River’s water but […]

An InfoNile Original Feature  For the past 100 years, smooth docking at Kigoma Harbor of Lake Tanganyika was almost daily routine for MV Liemba, one of the world’s oldest ships, manufactured about 100 years ago in Germany. But now things have changed. Near-flawless docking is impossible! The lake is shrinking. The shoreline is rugged. And […]

Nyamiti Kayora and Sylvester Bulengela By Nyamiti Kayora and Sylvester Bulengela In many hilly locations it is difficult to put up sanitary facilities such as toilets and septic tanks that are up to the required standard. This has been a major challenge for the vast majority of people in Mwanza leading to the pollution of […]

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The Korea International Cooperation Agency and UNICEF – the United Nations Children’s Fund – have launched a five year programme to scale up water, sanitation and hygiene services in schools in Karamoja. The programme will be executed until 2022, benefitting 56,000 children from 100 schools in all Karamoja districts – Abim, Amudat, Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto, […]

Konjit Teshome Reports showed that 33 percent of Ethiopia’s population do not have to access clean drinking water. The ministry of Water, irrigation and Energy revealed to Addis Zemen daily newspaper that 33 percent of people in Ethiopia can’t access clean drinking water. Despite remarkable progress seen since water projects started this year in rural […]

Lakes in Ethiopia are on the verge of danger. According to researchers, though lakes can provide many benefits for human beings, they are not treated properly. Due to this reason people also suffered a lot. To prevent lakes from damages and keep them alive, necessary measurements should be taken, academics suggested.