Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world. In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture,...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MAPUTO, January 31, 2017 – The rainy season has always been a nightmare for Afonso Chirindze and his family. As residents of the George Dimitrov informal settlement, four months of rain and the flooding...
Date: January 31, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NYAGATARE, December 20, 2016 – Standing proudly in front of his new, four-bedroom house, 45-year old John Muyango, a resident of Kayigiro village of Nyagatare District, is a content man. Five years ago...
Date: December 20, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
NAKURU, November 30, 2016 – Twice a year, rains used to cause flooding through the informal settlements of Kaptembwa, Gilani and Kwa Rhonda. Situated in the low-lying landscape between the Rift Valley...
Date: November 30, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
After many years as a migrant worker in various cities, Chen Yin returned to Tuoxi village recently to pick up farm work again. A key reason for her return is that floods that inundated her farmland almost...
Date: August 24, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
DAKAR, February 3, 2016—When heavy rains pounded Dakar in 2009, the residents of Cite Soleil, a neighborhood in the suburbs of Dakar, were up to their chests in water. Six years later, one can still see...
Date: February 3, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL CITY, Kabul Province – Standing on his store’s doorstep, Mohammad Naeem is admiring the newly asphalted road, and the shops and houses located on both sides of the street. A 50-year-old army veteran,...
Date: August 13, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KABUL CITY, Kabul Province –The distance between Mursal’s home and the main road is barely 20 meters, but, until recently, she would still be afraid of walking through this short alley. Thankfully, Mursal,...
Date: June 30, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
KAMPALA, August 19, 2014 – In 2010, Kampala City was in desperate need of repair. Many city roads were riddled with potholes, most of the street lights were not working, and local government corruption...
Date: August 19, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, JUNE 2, 2014 – Over 70 delegates from East Asia, South Asia and Africa are convening for the Third East Asia regional workshop on Flood Risk Management and Urban Resilience, on June 3 to 5, 2014...
Date: June 3, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
About 40,000 farming households in the south to benefit from the improved water supply ASTANA, April 29, 2014 – Today, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed a $102.9 million loan agreement...
Date: April 29, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The Turpan Basin, in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is the hottest and driest area in China. Water is precious in this arid place, anciently called “Land of Fire”. The 600,000 residents in the Basin,...
Date: November 20, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The Odra River, which stretches for more than 500 miles through the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, has long been a source of food, transportation, and employment for countless settlements that have...
Date: October 11, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, Sept.5, 2013 - ‘Lesson not learned,’ wrote Candy Dizon in her blog, at the height of typhoon Maring (international name: Trami) in August 2013. The businesswoman lamented how the combination...
Date: September 23, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
About one million farm families will benefit WASHINGTON, August 28 2013 -- A $360 million credit to India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh (UP), was approved by the World Bank Board of Executive...
Date: August 28, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The city of Colombo is the commercial and financial heart of Sri Lanka and accounts for almost 50% of the country’s GDP. Colombo hosts most of the country’s manufacturing facilities and services. Although...
Date: April 5, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 15, 2012 — Today the World Bank approved its first IBRD loan of US $ 213 million to Sri Lanka for the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project (MCUDP) to assist develop the Colombo Metropolitan...
Date: March 15, 2012
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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