Water & Corruption News

Corruption in water tanker supply is a common problem in both New Delhi in India and Karachi in Pakistan. Only New Delhi appears to have found a way to deal with it.

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Nuru International, a US-based nonprofit focused on pioneering holistic, sustainable solutions to poverty, is using some Google platforms and Nokia phones to increase sanitation in Kuria, Kenya. The organization has registered a Kenyan web domain name and created an account with Google Apps, providing access to each of the 60 Kenyan staff members. GPRS-enabled handsets [...]

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The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) [Delhi water board] has decided to privatise tanker management system to check water wastage and corruption in its own ranks. Four companies have shown interest and submitted technical proposals for the tenders issued by DJB. The contract would ensure a total revamp of the system and introduction of new technologies. [...]

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Corrupt politicians allow businessmen to siphon off as much as 41% of the city’s water supply and turn around and sell it at exorbitant rates to residents, generating an estimated $43 million a year. Name a cash cow in this sprawling city of ragged slums and glass-walled office buildings and it’s almost certain there’s an [...]

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People in the Arab world need fuller and freer information about shrinking water supplies but their governments are withholding it for fear of fueling unrest, a United Nations expert said on Thursday, 1 April 2010

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Organisations representing the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy protested in New Delhi against the Dow Chemical Company sponsorship of the Live Earth Run for Water. They were supported by Amnesty International. The organisers of the Live Earth Run for Water in New Delhi turned out to be a group of Bhopal activists posing [...]

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A lack of clean water and sanitation in burgeoning slums could trigger a complex set of humanitarian crises says a new [forthcoming] paper, Urban Catastrophes: The Wat/San Dimension [1], by the Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) of King’s College London, which keeps an eye on possible crises that could emerge in the not too distant future.
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Annual water theft in Chile’s metropolitan region equals the consumption of 33,000 families, local paper El Mercurio reported.
Over 8Mm3 of water are stolen in the region every year by people tampering with water meters.
An estimated 6,000 meters are being tampered with in capital Santiago every year, according to water utility Aguas Andinas manager Cristián Esquivel.
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People in the Arab world need fuller and freer information about shrinking water supplies but their governments are withholding it for fear of fuelling unrest, a United Nations expert said on Thursday, 1 April 2010.
Arable land makes up just 4.2 percent of the Middle East and North Africa and is expected to shrink due to [...]

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According to a new benchmarking study undertaken by CERES, UBS and Bloomberg, the majority of leading companies working in key water-intensive industries and sectors (particularly mining and beverage) are weakly managed and poor at reporting  on water-risks and performance. This is of particular concern for areas under water-stress. The study also analyses the extent of stakeholder engagement facilitated by the companies and [...]

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