AFRICA-ASIA: Water and Health in the City

NAIROBI, 5 September 2007 (IRIN In-Depth) -

• SENEGAL: Dakar water channel poses potential health hazard
  
• PAKISTAN: Contaminated water a threat to millions in Punjab
  
• KENYA: Kibera, The Forgotten City
  
• AFGHANISTAN: Traditional ecological sanitation system under pressure
  
• NIGER: Migration benefits still seen to outweigh risks
  
• KENYA: Water cuts leave slum residents ‘at risk’
  
• KENYA: Bringing health services to Kibera's poor
  
• NEPAL: Impoverished urban squatters face high risk of poor health
  
• TOGO: Water crisis spreads to capital
  
• ZIMBABWE: Greater centralisation threatens city's water supplies
  
• LIBERIA: Lassa fever returns as health sector crumbles
  
• GLOBAL: Health, environment threatened by future urban growth
  
• GLOBAL: Microbes don’t know geography - WHO report
  
• COMOROS: An uninvited wedding guest
  
• KAZAKHSTAN: Alarm raised over deteriorating health of men
  
• IRAQ: Insecurity and lack of funds prevent cleansing of polluted sites
  
• WEST AFRICA: Meningitis survivors among disease’s victims
  
• GLOBAL: Eliminating the “disease of the poorest of the poor”
  
• ZAMBIA: Kabwe, Africa's most toxic city
  
• PAKISTAN: Dengue threat lurks over Karachi
  
• NIGER: Waterborne disease blights millions of lives