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One Million More Midwives: The Smartest Investment for Safer Births in a Shrinking Aid Landscape

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World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change to Solve the Water and Sanitation Crisis

By Onyinye Oranezi and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) As the saying goes, “Water is life”. However, one could rephrase it to say-”Adequate and safe water is life”, or better yet, borrow the famous line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem titled ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’: ‘water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink’ […]

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World Water Day 2022: The Liquid Gold Under Our Feet

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With rising temperatures, fluctuating rainfall patterns, escalating flooding, drought and desertification, the global impact of climate change has been quite immense. The devastating effects of these unexpected weather conditions have affected water security globally. For instance, the rise in temperature, variations in rainfall and decline in precipitation have led to the evaporation of surface lakes […]

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Valuing Water: Nigeria must tackle climate change to protect its water resources - WWD21

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“Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.”- John Delaney. Life is not possible without water. As one of the most important substances on earth, water is an element that is useful to living and non-living things. It is used for agriculture, recreation, […]

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Is Nigeria ready to leave no one behind? World Water Day 2019

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Water is life Imagine… 10-year-old Funke kicks up dust as she makes her way out of the door to the stream. You can barely see the dust because it is only 5am. Many other 10-year-olds are still safely tucked in bed, but not Funke; her morning chores include walking two kilometres to the stream to […]

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Winners of the 2019 UN World Water Day Inter-School Handwashing Essay Competition

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Nigeria Health Watch, T.Y Danjuma Foundation, Water Aid and EpiAFRIC put together an inter-school handwashing essay competition in a bid to contribute to the UN’s mission of “Leaving No One Behind”. The competition was for students of primary 4–6 and junior secondary within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Over a hundred students sent in submissions […]

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