By Ayodele Samuel, gtms06@yahoo.com Residents of Jalingo, Taraba State capital in Northern Nigeria, are groaning over the unending scarcity of portable water, writes AYODELE SAMUEL, a blogger at www.ayodelenews.blogspot.com reports. “Water, they say is life”, and the human body constitute of 70% of this liquid substance, as such water tops the priority list of the demand [...]
Results of UN Survey of 130 Countries Provides In-Depth Status Report on Global Efforts to Improve Water Management Rio de Janeiro, 19 June 2012 – Over 80 per cent of countries have reformed their water laws in the past twenty years as a response to growing pressures on water resources from expanding populations, urbanization and [...]
Interventions proposed for developing sustainable fisheries in this lake are such as reviewing and updating the national components of the Fisheries Management Frame Plan, developing and implementing fishing license process, improve the involvement of local communities in fisheries management, and promote sustainable fisheries alternative livelihoods. The fishing pressure is an increasing threat to the sustainability [...]
Having spent a fruitless day in search of pasture in the searing heat, about 20 worried and exhausted Fulani pastoralists from Niger near the southeastern edge of the Sahara lie under the stars and mull their future. The next rains and green pastures are still another four months away – or maybe not, mused one of [...]
Wrote by: Daud Abdi Daud Africa is home to some of the largest lakes in the world, both in size and volume. These lakes play a significant role in the political, social, economic and environmental life of many of the continent’s people and their importance is set to increase. Africa is also a vast continent [...]
Wrote by Daud Abdi Daud Africa is still suffering the affects of global warming which causes Africa to be the poorest region in the world and looked as continent the most vulnerable to the impacts of projected changes due to widespread poverty limits and adaptation capabilities. In fact, so as to draw a close measurable [...]
WE, the members of the Lake Tanganyika Authority Conference of Ministers from the Republic of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Zambia meeting in Kigoma, the United Republic of Tanzania on as” February, 2012 on the occasion of the Fifth Ordinary Meeting held in accordance with [...]
By Kingsley Ighobor For some African countries, there is cheery news in the 2011 Human Development Report.* Published by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), it ranks countries according to three measures of human development: life expectancy, education and income. In both Kenya and Nigeria extreme poverty has declined due to improvements in water, sanitation, health [...]
The damage inflicted on Egypt’s lakes testifies to man’s ability to quickly destroy what nature took centuries to create. Lakes — or wetlands — add to the varied topography of the country, but environmental damage is seriously jeopardizing their habitats. In some cases the damage is irreversible. This severe ecological damage is due to industrialization, land reclamation, [...]
Port Louis — Mauritius plans to privatise its water sector, as rains become rare, and century-old pipes continue to leak almost 50 percent of the water available, added to waste by the population, mismanagement and over-consumption. “Water rates are cheap in Mauritius compared to other countries in the region despite the increase of 35 percent [...]