The UN will be commemorating World Water Day on Monday March 22.
In northern Ghana some 50% of people lack access to safe drinking water. Credit: UNDP Ghana
EAST SUSSEX, UK, Mar 20 2021 (IPS) – In the midst of a global pandemic, when the presence of water in our lives has never seemed more important, its future availability has also never been more uncertain.
Water scarcity is now such a threat that it is even possible to trade in ‘water futures’ joining commodities like gold and oil on Wall Street, with traders .
So, while farmers and pastoralists struggle to know when the next rainfall will come, and women and children walk for hours to collect wate…
A confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Antoine-Jean Gros: Napoleon Bonaparte Visits the Plague Stricken in Jaffa.
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 24 2021 (IPS) – By the end of April 2019, a government campaign to vaccinate more than 40 million children under five against polio in Pakistan was suspended after a series of attacks on health workers and police. On 23 April, a police officer protecting polio workers was gunned down in Bannu, the same day a polio worker was in Lahore seriously wounded by a father “protecting his child from vaccination”, these incidents were followed by the murder of anothe…