Noticias sobre Zambia
Mahmoud Harb (Fitch Ratings): “The relevance of water risks for sovereign rating is set to rise”
Fitch Ratings is a provider of credit ratings, commentary and research. Their human insight enables clients all over the world to make better decisions.
C. de Albuquerque: “Universal access is more about a systems approach than infrastructure alone”
Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a multi-stakeholder platform of governments and their partners: civil society, private sector, UN agencies, research and learning institutions, and the philanthropic community, who share the belief that collaborative decision making, led by governments, leads to more effective solutions.
“We need to keep communicating to highlight the water crisis and show what needs to be done”
Set up in 2005, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) helps transform cities to benefit the millions of people who lack access to water and sanitation.
Using Satellite Images for Wetland Management and Planning in Africa
The second and final workshop of the project ‘Using Satellite Images for Wetland Management and Planning in Africa’ took place from the 8-15th of July 2020 in a virtual session.
Supporting Water Utilities During COVID-19
Water utilities are struggling with a loss of revenue, reduced availability of critical materials and deferred investments.
Victoria Falls recover from drought
Approximately three months after Victoria Falls became a trickle of water and dry stone, it has come back to life and the roar of its mighty cascades can be heard again.
Zambia suffers water and electricity shortages after long-lasting drought
In the past three years, the water level in Lake Kariba, the world's largest man-made lake by volume, has dropped by six metres, reports The Guardian.
Dry weather increases by two the list of countries in need of external food assistance
FAO report highlights risks posed by locusts in Africa amid stronger output trends in the Near East and Asia.
Climate risk and decarbonization: What every mining CEO needs to know
Building a climate strategy won’t be quick or easy—but waiting is not an option.
SDGs represent almost US$10 trillion of high-impact investment potential
Standard Chartered examines the most impactful opportunities for investing in three infrastructure-focused SDGs in 15 high-growth markets across Asia and Africa.
Drought in southern Africa: EU releases over €22 million in humanitarian aid
The European Commission is mobilising a humanitarian aid package of €22.8 million to help address emergency food needs and support vulnerable people in Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zambia: Prolonged drought increases food insecurity
A combination of prolonged, severe drought in the western and southern provinces of Zambia over the past two rainy seasons in 2017 and 2018, and floods in the north, have increased hunger, with more than 2.3 million people across the country expected to be severely food insecure through March.
Zimbabwe’s parched Bulawayo rations to save dwindling water
By Lungelo Ndhlovu. Neighbourhoods are seeing water blackouts of four days as the city tries to keep scarce supplies moving to businesses and industry.
Victoria Falls is drying up
Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, have fascinated millions of visitors who have marvelled at the spectacular 100 metre water drop for decades.
Zambia: African Development Bank and partners improving sanitation for Lusaka’s low-income suburbs
“Sometimes, it looks to me like surgery in the belly of an ancient beast,” says Herbert Chinokoro, senior water and sanitation engineer at the African Development Bank’s Country Office in Lusaka, Zambia.
More than 52 million people across Africa going hungry as weather extremes hit the continent
Millions displaced; women, girls hit hardest; crises compounded by conflicts, poverty, and inequality; $700m average climate-related losses; urgent action needed now.
“Women, adolescent girls, the elderly are worse hit when it comes to poor sanitation facilities”
On occasion of World Toilet Day, celebrated every 19th of November, to draw attention to the global sanitation crisis and help achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, we caught up with Sibongile Ndaba, Business Development Lead at Water & Sanitation For The Urban Poor in Zambia.
Global Handwashing Day 2019: clean hands for all for sustainable development
By Om Prasad Gautam is Senior WASH Manager for Hygiene at WaterAid UK.
Simulating trade-offs in the water-energy-food nexus
The case of the Omo-Turkana and Zambezi basins
District-wide sage water coverage in Ghana
U.S.-based Water4 and its Ghana-based counterpart, Access Development Limited, announced a joint commitment to bring access to safe and affordable water to all across Ghana’s Wassa East District.