World Food Programme Nutrition Activities in Yemen – June 2017.
With up to 67 percent of children under five years chronically malnourished (stunted), and rates of acute malnutrition (wasting) exceeding 25 percent in some governorates, the physical and mental development of Yemeni children is severely at risk, a disadvantage from which they cannot recover if appropriate actions are not undertaken in the critical period from conception to the first two years of life.
In addition to poor food consumption, factors contributing to these critical levels of undernutrition are poor infant and young child feeding and care practices, limited access to improved (safe) drinking water, and a high disease burden.
Activities Under its Emergency Operation 201068, WFP will target 1.9 million children and women through its nutrition activities.
Acutely malnourished pregnant and breast-feeding women will receive a monthly 6 kg take-home ration of a fortified blended flour, SuperCereal, from the beginning of the second trimester though to six months of breastfeeding.
Through blanket supplementary feeding programme activities, children 6 to 23 months will receive preventative monthly 1.5 kg entitlements of a lipid-based nutrient supplement, Plumpy’Doz, which provides a daily 281 kcal and essentiai micronutrients.
To avert a looming nutrition catastrophe, WFP, in collaboration with its key partners – UNICEF, WHO and the Nutrition Cluster partners – will provide an integrated package of nutrition and food assistance with complementary activities that use limited resources by focusing on areas at the highest risk in order to meet the immediate needs of the most vulnerable and respond to the needs of each Yemeni family as a whole.
In April 2017, 16,356 moderate acutely malnourished (MAM) children 6 to 59 months- out of the planned 72,575 children 6 to 59 months- and 14,839 acutely malnourished pregnant and lactating women (PLW) -out of the planned 46,040 – were admitted into WFP’s targeted supplementary feeding programmes (TSFP) through 561 health facilities and 99 mobile clinics in 13 governorates.
WFP’s blanket supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) for prevention of acute and chronic malnutrition admitted 142 children 6 to 23 months out of the planned 20,945 in the same governorates.
In the TSFP, 82 percent of MAM children were discharged as cured, 17 percent defaulted, and less than 1 percent died, while 97 percent of PLW admitted in March were discharged as cured, 2 percent defaulted and no deaths were recorded.

Napa City Update: July 2017.
Effective April 2016, all water systems were required to comply with the Federal Revised Total Coliform Rule, monitoring the presence of indicator bacteria naturally present in the environment.
Under this revised rule, the city conducted a Level I assessment, with no problems found so no corrective actions required.
In addition, the report shows the city meeting all other stringent state and federal standards for finished drinking water.
Additional report sections describe our source waters, the importance of protecting those sources, and specific water quality concerns some customers may have.
For customers without computer access, paper copies of the 2016 Drinking Water Quality Report are available at the Water Division, 1340 Clay Street, and at the Public Works counter, 1600 First Street.
For the past five years, the city has used an electronic distribution method for this report, saving resources and ratepayer funds while still communicating to customers about the health and safety of their tap water.
The city of Napa and a number of other public agencies offer an urgent notification service called Nixle.
Register with Nixle at nixle.com or text your ZIP code to 888-777 and stay up to date when it matters most.
The City’s Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) public hearing has been changed to Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.

Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe has fallen on various government agencies.
However, over one billion people across the globe do not have access to basic water supplies.
Nearly half of the developing world’s population suffers from an assortment of diseases because water supply remains contaminated.
Since the mid-1990s, the privatisation of water services has been billed as the solution to providing water to people who do not have access to potable water in developing countries.
One such example is the movement against water privatisation in Bolivia.
The privatisation of water services has failed to bring water to the people in the impoverished city of El Alto, Bolivia where people have been charged for a basic water connection.
Most of these companies have been extracting water from a local aquifer either free of charge or at lower rates and are selling bottled water to consumers at relatively higher prices.
According to a report by the Pakistan Planning Commission, 61 percent of the households extract groundwater for domestic purposes with electric pumps and hand pumps.
The unplanned pumping of groundwater has posed serious management and equity challenges.
The government should play an active role in ensuring citizens get access equitable, clean and safe water.

Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe has fallen on various government agencies.
However, over one billion people across the globe do not have access to basic water supplies.
Nearly half of the developing world’s population suffers from an assortment of diseases because water supply remains contaminated.
Since the mid-1990s, the privatisation of water services has been billed as the solution to providing water to people who do not have access to potable water in developing countries.
One such example is the movement against water privatisation in Bolivia.
The privatisation of water services has failed to bring water to the people in the impoverished city of El Alto, Bolivia where people have been charged for a basic water connection.
Most of these companies have been extracting water from a local aquifer either free of charge or at lower rates and are selling bottled water to consumers at relatively higher prices.
According to a report by the Pakistan Planning Commission, 61 percent of the households extract groundwater for domestic purposes with electric pumps and hand pumps.
The unplanned pumping of groundwater has posed serious management and equity challenges.
The government should play an active role in ensuring citizens get access equitable, clean and safe water.

Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team can’t get visas to come to the US.
“This opportunity would allow us to invent, design, and create things that could possibly allow our community, our lives, and us,” the team members wrote on their page of the FIRST Global Challenge competition website.
“We want to make a difference and most breakthroughs in science, technology, and other industries normally start with the dream of a child to do something great.
We want to be that child and pursue our dreams to make a difference in people’s lives."
High: 86° F Low: 68° F Full Forecast >> The team of six had been working for months to build a robot that could complete a variety of engineering tasks, like providing access to clean drinking water.
So being selected to come was a thrill.
“I can’t tell you why exactly [their applications were denied], but I do know that a fair opportunity was given by the US State Department and embassy,” said Joe Sestak, a former congressman and president of FIRST Global.
"They’re young and they were very upset.” Although the young women won’t make it to the US, their robot is now on its way to participate in the competition.
The team of six will tune in to the event via Skype, and a group of young Afghan-American women will represent them at the event.
The team from Afghanistan isn’t alone in being rejected, according to Sestak.

Wells of Life Partners with Mediaplanet to Fight Hunger.
Wells of Life is joining forces with Mediaplanet for their Tackling Hunger campaign to help raise awareness for those suffering from hunger and a lack of access to clean water.
Every 21 seconds a child dies from contaminated water.
About 40% of the world’s population lives in areas of water scarcity and there is a direct connection between lack of clean water and hunger.
Each person needs about 2.5 liters of water per day and, to put this in perspective, in order to produce enough food for one person for one day you would need 2,000 to 5,000 liters of water.
Founder Nick Jordan wants Wells of Life to unite all people across different religious, economic, and social backgrounds for the cause of providing people with the basic necessity of clean water.
"I saw the effects as I travelled across Uganda… most visibly in the daily suffering of women," says Jordan.
A Wells of Life well delivers clean water to a community for 25 years and each well that they build provides a new and better life for countless people across these areas.
About Mediaplanet: Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns released through multimedia platforms.
We continue to explore and expand our network of partners and clients through the shared interest of providing our readers the best experience possible.

Wells of Life Partners with Mediaplanet to Fight Hunger.
Wells of Life is joining forces with Mediaplanet for their Tackling Hunger campaign to help raise awareness for those suffering from hunger and a lack of access to clean water.
Every 21 seconds a child dies from contaminated water.
About 40% of the world’s population lives in areas of water scarcity and there is a direct connection between lack of clean water and hunger.
Each person needs about 2.5 liters of water per day and, to put this in perspective, in order to produce enough food for one person for one day you would need 2,000 to 5,000 liters of water.
Founder Nick Jordan wants Wells of Life to unite all people across different religious, economic, and social backgrounds for the cause of providing people with the basic necessity of clean water.
"I saw the effects as I travelled across Uganda… most visibly in the daily suffering of women," says Jordan.
A Wells of Life well delivers clean water to a community for 25 years and each well that they build provides a new and better life for countless people across these areas.
About Mediaplanet: Mediaplanet specializes in the creation of content marketing campaigns released through multimedia platforms.
We continue to explore and expand our network of partners and clients through the shared interest of providing our readers the best experience possible.

Beyonce Partners with UNICEF To Provide Fresh Water to Burundians.
Through her initiative BEYGOOD4BURUNDI (BG4B), Beyonce will be supporting clean water programs, sanitation, and basic hygiene practices in the central African nation, which is currently engulfed in serious political and economic turmoil.
“Access to water is a fundamental right.
When you give children clean water and safe water, you don’t just give them life, you give them health, an education, and a brighter future,” the singer was quoted by WJLA.
“I am committed to helping drive lasting solutions to the water crisis in Burundi.” The two organizations plan to build wells that are fully equipped with hand pumps, provide hygiene education for locals, and improve water and sanitation facilities located in schools and health centers in different parts of the country.
The BG4B initiative was launched in 2013 during Beyonce’s music tour dubbed “Mrs.
Her partnership with UNICEF comes days after she and her husband, Jay-Z, a renowned American rapper, registered to trademark the names of their newborn twins Rumi and Sir.
The trademark application was reportedly made from the same California address as that of the couple’s 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Poor Management of Water In Burundi, a landlocked country, access to clean drinking water still remains a major problem.
Pundits argue that if the infrastructure was to be repaired, close to 70 percent of the population would have access to adequate drinking water.

Beyonce Partners with UNICEF To Provide Fresh Water to Burundians.
Through her initiative BEYGOOD4BURUNDI (BG4B), Beyonce will be supporting clean water programs, sanitation, and basic hygiene practices in the central African nation, which is currently engulfed in serious political and economic turmoil.
“Access to water is a fundamental right.
When you give children clean water and safe water, you don’t just give them life, you give them health, an education, and a brighter future,” the singer was quoted by WJLA.
“I am committed to helping drive lasting solutions to the water crisis in Burundi.” The two organizations plan to build wells that are fully equipped with hand pumps, provide hygiene education for locals, and improve water and sanitation facilities located in schools and health centers in different parts of the country.
The BG4B initiative was launched in 2013 during Beyonce’s music tour dubbed “Mrs.
Her partnership with UNICEF comes days after she and her husband, Jay-Z, a renowned American rapper, registered to trademark the names of their newborn twins Rumi and Sir.
The trademark application was reportedly made from the same California address as that of the couple’s 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy.
Poor Management of Water In Burundi, a landlocked country, access to clean drinking water still remains a major problem.
Pundits argue that if the infrastructure was to be repaired, close to 70 percent of the population would have access to adequate drinking water.

Windhoek-The Fifth National Development Plan (NDP5), which was recently launched by President Geingob is the 5th NDP in the series of a total of seven National Development Plans that are to implement and achieve the objectives and aspirations of Namibia’s long-term vision, Vision 2030.
The game changers are: Increase investment in infrastructure development; Increase productivity in agriculture, especially for smallholder farmers; Invest in quality technical skills development; Improve value addition in natural resources; Achieve industrial development through Local Procurement.
During the NDP5 period, sustainable investments in infrastructure will be prioritized and sequenced to support industrialization and export development.
Energy: Where we are While nearly 75 percent of Namibians in urban areas enjoyed access to energy in 2015, only 24 percent of their fellow citizens in rural households had electricity in their homes.
The maximum electricity demand is around 656MW while at most only 484MW is produced domestically.
Desired outcome By 2022, Namibia has a sustainable mix of locally generated energy capacity of 755 MW to support household and industry development.
Given the trend of migration, urban domestic water demand (including manufacturing and industry) is estimated to increase.
Each rural constituency will have water access of above 50 percent.
Challenges Ageing water infrastructure and the development of the water infrastructure is one of the challenges which need to be addressed urgently.
For example, an important part of Namibia’s desert ecosystem is a phenomenon known as ephemeral rivers which flow for short periods of time following severe rainstorms.