The plants to be set up in the city suburbs of Nakivubo, Kinawataka, Lubigi and Nalukolongo, are expected to improve sanitation services from the current 7% of the city’s population to 30%. The city currently has only one sewage treatment plant.

Uganda is said to be one of the least sewered countries in the world.

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Locals demanded that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dismisses Shaddad Al-Attili, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, for failing to commit to pledges he made to improve the water supply in the city, which has a population of 220,000.

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According to water experts, although the whole world is seriously thinking of conserving their water resources for ensuring water security, Bangladesh is destroying its surface and ground water by throwing wastes in water bodies and over extracting ground water.

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The longterm threat to Pakistan’s well being is that the country is gradually drying out. The Indus river system is the main year-round source of water for both Pakistan and northwestern India, but the glaciers up on the Tibetan plateau that feed the system’s various tributaries are melting.

While they are melting, of course, the amount of water in the system will not fall steeply—but according the Chinese Academy of Sciences, some of the glaciers will be gone in as little as 20 years. Then the river levels will drop permanently, and the real problems will begin.

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The lack of sufficient amounts of rain in winter along with the absence of snow on the Makmel mountain’s slopes, especially al-Qurna al-Sawda, have contributed to the subsequent water shortage.

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Claire-Lise Chaignat, the coordinator of the WHO’s group on cholera, noted the UN health agency has recorded 2,849 cases in Cameroon, including 222 deaths since May.

It has also recorded 837 cases of the disease in the north of Nigeria since mid-June, including 30 deaths.

“It’s a disease of the poor, a sign of a lack of access to clean drinking water and of poor hygiene,” Chaignat added.

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He also advocated public-private partnership by calling on the private sector to partner government in providing adequate sanitation facilities throughout the country.

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“The problem with water, especially in developing countries, is that it is contaminated,” said Dick Engberg, technical director at the American Water Resources Association.

“It’s not every day you find an issue where effective diplomacy and development will allow you to save millions of lives, feed the hungry, empower women, advance our national security interests, protect the environment, and demonstrate to billions of people that the United States cares, cares about you and your welfare,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. “Water is that issue.”

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The 5th annual Water for the Poor Act 2009 Report released yesterday in Washington, only 17.2 per cent of Nigerians have access to pipe-borne water.

The report also indicated that 30 per cent of Nigeria’s 150 million population had no access to adequate sanitation.

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According to the report, the total urban access to potable water in the region currently, is 70%, which is abysmal, and runs below the national standard of 76%.

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