Ukraine: 750,000 Children at Risk of Losing Access to Safe Drinking Water.
"Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire," said Afshan Khan, UNICEF`s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, noting that more families are expected to be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers.
About 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the South Donbass Water pipeline were destroyed by shelling.
Urgent repairs were completed yesterday evening.
In Donetsk, power lines providing electricity to the city`s water filtration station were damaged earlier this month, threatening more than 1 million people`s access to safe water.
Girls and boys having to fetch water from alternative sources, or who are forced to leave their homes due to disruptions to safe water supplies, face dangers from ongoing fighting and other forms of abuse.
"All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure," said Ms. Khan.
UNICEF has provided access to safe drinking water to more than 1.5 million people in Government and non-Government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, UNICEF is appealing for $31.3 million to provide health and nutrition support, education, clean water, hygiene and sanitation as well as protection for children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
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East Ukraine fighting imperils water access for 750,00 children: UN.
More At least 750,000 children in eastern Ukraine are at imminent risk of losing access to safe water supplies after a surge in fighting between the government and separatist rebels, a UN report said Friday.
Approximately 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the regional pipeline were destroyed by shelling, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said.
Urgent repairs were completed only Thursday evening, it added.
"Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire," said Afshan Khan, the agency’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia.
"We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers."
In the rebels’ de facto capital of Donetsk, power lines serving the city’s water filtration station were hit earlier this month, threatening access to clean water for more than one million people, the report said.
Children who lose access to clean drinking water can quickly contract water-borne diseases including diarrhoea, UNICEF warned.
"All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure," Khan said.
More than 10,000 people have died and almost 24,000 have been injured since the pro-Russian insurgency began in April 2014, while 3.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than 1.5 million have been forced from their homes.

UNICEF East Ukraine fighting imperils water access for 750,00 children.
At least 750,000 children in eastern Ukraine are at imminent risk of losing access to safe water supplies after a surge in fighting between the government and separatist rebels, a UN report said Friday.
Approximately 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the regional pipeline were destroyed by shelling, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said.
Urgent repairs were completed only Thursday evening, it added.
"Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire," said Afshan Khan, the agency’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia.
"We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers."
The latest clashes between government troops and Russia-backed rebels reportedly killed ten Ukrainian soldiers over the past week, while schools, hospitals and basic infrastructure were seriously damaged.
Children who lose access to clean drinking water can quickly contract water-borne diseases including diarrhoea, UNICEF warned.
"All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure," Khan said.
More than 10,000 people have died and almost 24,000 have been injured since the pro-Russian insurgency began in April 2014, while 3.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than 1.5 million have been forced from their homes.

Dakota Access Pipeline ruling favoring Standing Rock Sioux a victory, but the battle is not over.
What happened at Standing Rock is a movement, and you don’t see the benefits of a movement until way later.” ~David Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, addressing court ruling ++ ++ ++ The 91-page decision issued Wednesday by a federal court ruling against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for violating the law with an inadequate environmental review of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline garnered some long-delayed activist hurrahs this week.
Most of that run is built on private land.
While this is clearly a major win for the tribe, the details show the decision to be a mixed victory.
For one thing, despite saying the Corps failed to follow the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in granting an easement under Lake Oahe, he did not tell Energy Transfer Partners, the builder, to shut off the oil that has been flowing through the pipeline for more than two weeks.
The judge also ruled against the tribe on other issues.
Boasberg did not say one way or another whether the Corps’ had made the wrong decision in granting the easement, only that it had failed to cover ground NEPA requires to be reviewed before making a decision.
We hope this decision leads to the stoppage of oil flowing in the Bakken crude oil pipeline as a permanent remedy to protecting the drinking water of the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux Nations.
We will continue to support any and all efforts to divest from fossil fuels and stop the Dakota Access Pipeline once and for all.” Although the pipeline does not cross reservation land, it has been installed on ancestral Sioux territory.
He doesn’t see the cost in the future, he just sees the dollars gained today.” That, sadly, is not something only Donald Trump does.

How to reduce inequalities in access to WASH – Rural water and sanitation in Ghana.
Their successors, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) went a step further and shifted the focus from service delivery to service delivery ‘for all’, thereby adding a fundamental concern with equity.
Despite significant progress, however, huge disparities in access to and use of improved water and sanitation facilities between the richest and the poorest, as well as between quintiles, remain.
We conducted a political-economy analysis exploring the incentives, constraints and opportunities for change, with a focus on the poorest fifth of the population.
Two other country case studies and a synthesis report are available.
We selected Ghana as a case study considering its good progress in recent years in reducing inequalities in access to urban water within a context of overall impressive economic growth and poverty reduction.
Over the past 20 years, Ghana has successfully transitioned from authoritarian rule to democracy; achieving middle-income status in 2010, its poverty rate has fallen significantly and it ranks among the highest-performing countries in terms of human development in sub-Saharan Africa.
However, poverty reduction has not gone hand in hand with inequality reduction.
The serious external and internal macroeconomic shocks that have affected Ghana since 2012 contributed to a sharp rise of the price of nonfood items, hitting urban households particularly hard and raising concerns about the country’s future growth prospects.
These trends for the overall economy are reflected in trends in the WASH sector.

How to reduce inequalities in access to WASH – Rural water and sanitation in Ghana.
Their successors, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) went a step further and shifted the focus from service delivery to service delivery ‘for all’, thereby adding a fundamental concern with equity.
Despite significant progress, however, huge disparities in access to and use of improved water and sanitation facilities between the richest and the poorest, as well as between quintiles, remain.
We conducted a political-economy analysis exploring the incentives, constraints and opportunities for change, with a focus on the poorest fifth of the population.
Two other country case studies and a synthesis report are available.
We selected Ghana as a case study considering its good progress in recent years in reducing inequalities in access to urban water within a context of overall impressive economic growth and poverty reduction.
Over the past 20 years, Ghana has successfully transitioned from authoritarian rule to democracy; achieving middle-income status in 2010, its poverty rate has fallen significantly and it ranks among the highest-performing countries in terms of human development in sub-Saharan Africa.
However, poverty reduction has not gone hand in hand with inequality reduction.
The serious external and internal macroeconomic shocks that have affected Ghana since 2012 contributed to a sharp rise of the price of nonfood items, hitting urban households particularly hard and raising concerns about the country’s future growth prospects.
These trends for the overall economy are reflected in trends in the WASH sector.

Ukraine: 750,000 children at risk of losing access to safe drinking water, warns UN.
16 June 2017 – With the recent escalation of hostilities damaging vital water infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, at least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
“Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire,” said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, noting that more families are expected to be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers.
About 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the South Donbass Water pipeline were destroyed by shelling.
Urgent repairs were completed yesterday evening.
In Donetsk, power lines providing electricity to the city’s water filtration station were damaged earlier this month, threatening more than 1 million people’s access to safe water.
Girls and boys having to fetch water from alternative sources, or who are forced to leave their homes due to disruptions to safe water supplies, face dangers from ongoing fighting and other forms of abuse.
“All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure,” said Ms. Khan.
Read more on: Conflict in Ukraine enters fourth year ‘with no end in sight’ – UN report UNICEF has provided access to safe drinking water to more than 1.5 million people in Government and non-Government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, UNICEF is appealing for $31.3 million to provide health and nutrition support, education, clean water, hygiene and sanitation as well as protection for children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine: 750,000 children at risk of losing access to safe drinking water, warns UN.
16 June 2017 – With the recent escalation of hostilities damaging vital water infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, at least 750,000 children are at imminent risk of being cut off from safe drinking water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today.
“Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire,” said Afshan Khan, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, noting that more families are expected to be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers.
About 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the South Donbass Water pipeline were destroyed by shelling.
Urgent repairs were completed yesterday evening.
In Donetsk, power lines providing electricity to the city’s water filtration station were damaged earlier this month, threatening more than 1 million people’s access to safe water.
Girls and boys having to fetch water from alternative sources, or who are forced to leave their homes due to disruptions to safe water supplies, face dangers from ongoing fighting and other forms of abuse.
“All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure,” said Ms. Khan.
Read more on: Conflict in Ukraine enters fourth year ‘with no end in sight’ – UN report UNICEF has provided access to safe drinking water to more than 1.5 million people in Government and non-Government-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine.
In 2017, UNICEF is appealing for $31.3 million to provide health and nutrition support, education, clean water, hygiene and sanitation as well as protection for children and families affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

With the swipe of a smart card, he buys 20 litres of clean drinking water for Rs 5.
The rural entrepreneur selling the water, earns up to Rs 9,000 per month.
Through a single intervention — an ATM-like iJal Station, US-based Safe Water Network, SWN, ensures the availability of potable water, and a viable livelihood opportunity for some of India’s poorest and most disempowered communities.”Our aim is to create easily replicable models of drinking water enterprise, not just in India, but anywhere in the world where people don’t have access to safe drinking water,” says Founder and CEO of SWN, Kurt Soderlund.
Since they began work in India eight years ago, SWN has set up 187 iJal stations across the country, with 172 in Telangana alone.
“We have conducted massive outreach programs, trained station operators to be safe water advocates and improved the branding and signage at our safe water stations,” says Poonam Sewak, vice president (knowledge and partnerships) at SWN.
This is because the effects of drinking clean water on people’s health and well-being become palpable in a few months alone.
Indeed, their focus on providing safe and affordable drinking water is crucial to public health.
Water and sanitation-related illnesses account for 70-80 per cent of the country’s diseases.
Over 100 million people in India still lack access to clean drinking water.
As SWN creates new corporate linkages and grows its clusters of iJal stations, it could signal the beginning of an important social revolution in the country — one drop of safe drinking water at a time.

East Ukraine fighting imperils water access for 750,00. children: UN kiev, Jun 16 At least 750,000 children in eastern ukraine are at imminent risk of losing access to safe water supplies after a surge in fighting between the government and separatist rebels, a UN report said today.
Approximately 400,000 people, including 104,000 children, had their drinking water cut off for four days this week after two filtration stations for the regional pipeline were destroyed by shelling, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said.
Urgent repairs were completed only Thursday evening, it added.
"Nearly three million people in eastern Ukraine rely on water infrastructure that is now in the line of fire," said Afshan Khan, the agency’s regional director for Europe and Central Asia.
"We expect more families will be cut off from safe drinking water, putting children at severe risk of disease and other dangers."
The latest clashes between government troops and Russia- backed rebels reportedly killed ten Ukrainian soldiers over the past week, while schools, hospitals and basic infrastructure were seriously damaged.
In the rebels’ de facto capital of Donetsk, power lines serving the city’s water filtration station were hit earlier this month, threatening access to clean water for more than one million people, the report said.
Children who lose access to clean drinking water can quickly contract water-borne diseases including diarrhoea, UNICEF warned.
"All sides of the conflict must allow urgent repairs when water sources are destroyed and immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling of vital civilian infrastructure," Khan said.
More than 10,000 people have died and almost 24,000 have been injured since the pro-Russian insurgency began in April 2014, while 3.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and more than 1.