Action Against Hunger released the 2024 Water Funding Gap report, finding that globally, only 36% of appeals for water- and sanitation-related funding were met in 2023, leaving a 64% gap.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item appearing in The Hindu dated 21.12.2023 titled “6 dead, 1000 infected in suspected cholera outbreak in Rourkela dated 22/12/2023.

This publication, Water Quality in Agriculture: Risks and Risk Mitigation, emphasizes technical solutions and good agricultural practices, including risk mitigation measures suitable for the contexts of differently resourced institutions working in rural as well as urban and peri-urban settings in low- and middle-income countries.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ravendra Singh Vs National Highways Authority of India & Others dated 22/05/2023.

In India, around three lakh children die of water-borne diseases every year, with diarrhoea alone causing more than 50 per cent of the deaths. Despite the primary sources of water in the country—groundwater and surface water—being highly contaminated, only 32 per cent of the Indian households get water from a treated source.

Increasing numbers of displaced people, cholera epidemics, impacts of climate change, soaring water stress: SOLIDARITÉS INTERNATIONAL assesses the current situation of access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene throughout the world.

Oral cholera vaccine (OCV) has increasingly been used as an outbreak control measure, but vaccine shortages limit its application. A two-dose OCV campaign targeting residents aged over 1 year was launched in three rural Communes of Southern Haiti during an outbreak following Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Asha Devi, Sarpanch, Gram Panchayat Bhagwanpur, Khand Chhanchhrauli, Yamunanagar Vs State of Haryana dated 18/09/2019 regarding industrial pollution in village Bhagwanpur, Tehsil Chhachhrauli, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana on account of ply wood and chemical factories operating in violation of environmental norms and spreading diseases like typhoid affecting 70% population of the village.

According to the weekly health report, the city recorded 629 cases of diarrhea, 270 cases of jaundice, 430 cases of typhoid and four cases of cholera in the category of water-borne diseases.

The doctors are advising the public to eat a healthy diet and keep themselves away from any such place that breeds mosquitoes.

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