<p>US President Joe Biden has announced that he is “ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales”, in a move intended to bring to an end the six-year war that has “created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe”. <!--break--></p><p>Fighting between a Saudi-led Arab coalition backed by the US and UK, and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2015, and displaced 3.6 million, with 80 Percent of the population in need of emergency relief and humanitarian assistance, accord
<p>A 5 February computer hack atttempting to poison water systems of a Florida, US community was averted in real time.
<p>26 have died and as many as 200 are missing after a glacier collapse in northern India on 8 February, causing deadly flooding in the state of Uttarakhand.<!--break--></p><p>On the morning of 7 February the glacier collapsed near Reni village of Chamoli in Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand resulting in a high-speed surge of water to pour down the Rishiganga river completely destroying one hydroelectric dam and damaging another.</p><p>Most of those who are still missing had been working on the two dams when the avalanche of water hit, as well as local far
<p>Mining company Vale SA has reached agreement with the government of Minas Gerais in Brazil to pay $7 Billion USD to compensate the state for socioeconomic and environmental damage caused by the collapse of one of its trailings dams in January 2019 which killed 270 people, also polluting rivers with toxic slurry and devastating swathes of local countryside and infrastructure.</p><p><a href="http://ooska-old.local/search/site/Brumadinho?solrsort=ds_created%20des…
<p>Two US water sector organisations have come together to launch a campaign to increase federal investment in water infrastructure for public health and environmental protection reasons.<!--break--></p><p>The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA) launched <a href="https://www.affordableh2o.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AWRC-Launch-PR… Water, Resilient Communities&qu
<p>Four million Libyans face imminent water shortage if new solutions are not implemented to tackle declining water, sanitation and health (WASH) conditions in the conflict-torn country, according to a 1 February UNICEF statement.<!--break--></p><p>WASH conditions in Libya have deteriorated as a result of escalating violence and unrest following civil war and the killing of the country’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
<p>A comprehensive "atlas" profiling and mapping the state and trends in wastewater management and sanitation delivery across every African nation promises to provide policymakers with the information they need to track progress in an area vital to human health, economies and the environment.<!--break--></p><p>Produced jointly by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and non-profit environmental communications centre GRID-Arendal, the 284-page <a href="
<p>Three peace agreements were signed in Mali during January in a bid to end violence among communites that has plagued the circle of Koro in the centre of the country.<!--break--></p><p>The terms of the agreements <a href="https://www.hdcentre.org/updates/three-peace-agreements-signed-between-… brokered by</a> the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), a Swiss-based private diplomacy organis
<p>The UK government accepted in January that issues raised in a complaint filed against UK mining firm Glencore in respect of its handling of two contamination incidents at its Badila oilfield in southern Chad “merit further examination”.<!--break--></p><p><a href="https://www.raid-uk.org/sites/default/files/oecd_complaint_glencore_uk_… complaint</a>, filed by three human rights groups, alleges violations of OECD guidelines and details env
From wetland rejuvenation along the Ganga to beach-cleaning in Senegal, the 50th World Wetlands Day saw several initiatives launched in recognition of the value to nature and humankind of the globe’s wetlands.