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FORMER legislator and Monetary Policy Committee member Eddie Cross has made sensational claims that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

Safe water saves lives and restores childhoods: Children have to walk 40 minutes to reach the water Format By: Ajmal Sherzai & Nahida Ahmadi My mother is sick,” says 12-year old Fariba, from Khair Abad village, in the Nawmish district of Daikundi province in central Afghanistan. “So, I have to fetch water four or five times each day. The river I go to is four kilometers away from my home.” Around 1,100 children, like Fariba, live there; they are deprived of many of their basic rights, including access to safe drinking water. The source of water for 250 families living in Khair Abad vill...

Afghanistan National Guidelines for WASH in Emergency Format Access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services Water supply services in Afghanistan are limited and access to improved water infrastructures is among the lowest in the world. According to the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) of WHO-UNICEF 2015, the proportion of the population using an improved water source is 55%, with important differences between rural (47%) and urban areas (78%). With only 32% of the population having access to improved sanitation (rural: 27% and urban 45%), the situation with regard to sanitation conti...