The Kalkfeld settlement in Namibia, located between Otjiwarongo and Omaruru is home to about 5000 people whose lives are stuck in the pre-independence era. Apart from using bucket toilets, there are no proper houses or jobs and seemingly little is...
The government of Ghana aims to increase urban water coverage from the current level to 85% by 2015 while taking rural water coverage to 76% in order to guarantee the availability of potable water for all Ghanaians. According to the Deputy Minister...
The Nigeria Minister for Water Resources, Sarah Ochepe has appealed to the chairman of all local government councils to give priority to the provision of water and sanitation to the rural population in order to curb the spread of waterborne...
Sub-Saharan Africa still has a long way to go to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Close to half of the global population without water resides in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has also made little progress on improving...
