WHO Hopes Clean Water Guide Helps Prevent Disease
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The World Health Organization issued new guidelines on Tuesday on preventing contamination of drinking water supplies and resultant illnesses.
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By Kate Brusse, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--Hundreds of volunteers will scour the banks of the Boise River Sept. 16 in an effort to keep the river -- which provides 20 percent of Boise's drinking water -- healthy and safe.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his hope to an international meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face the dire consequences of inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic
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JOHANNESBURG -- For the first time, more than half of the world's population has water piped into their homes, according to a United Nations report released today, an accomplishment hailed as a &quot;stunning success&quot; by a senior World Health Organization official.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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The United States is focusing on providing clean water and basic sanitation in South Asian areas hit by an earthquake and tsunamis, to try to prevent illness and more deaths among survivors.
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(CP) - New antibiotic-resistant pathogens, airborne mercury and urban sprawl are threatening the health of the Great Lakes and millions of people who live around the bodies of fresh water, a report to the Canadian and U.S. governments concludes.
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World leaders meeting on Thursday to  discuss aid efforts for Asia's tsunami-hit countries were  warned the death toll could double to about 300,000 unless  action was taken this week to prevent disease.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday it had  sent emergency treatment to the region for diarrheal diseases  such as cholera and dysentery but while the aid was reaching  many places, access to safe drinking water remained inadequate.
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Public health officials are now encouraging women to make sure they are in optimal health well in advance of a pregnancy.
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By Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y.  Jun. 20--UNITED NATIONS -- Of the dozens of recommendations submitted to  the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May, one of the most  universal and compelling was a call for the protection of water.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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The next few days will be critical in controlling any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases in areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunamis, the UN health agency said Thursday.
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World Health Organization (WHO) experts will recommend ways to fight dangers linked to alcohol, including heart and liver disease, road accidents, suicides and sexually-transmitted infections, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, executive secretary of the  Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is persuaded that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of childrens lives could be saved by a coordinated global effort to improve nutrition and provide clean water, better sanitation and cleaner household fuels in underdeveloped countries, a new study finds.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding, and the best medicine is large quantities of clean water