The UN says more than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance following the worst flooding in a decade. Some 60% of them are children. READ ALSO – We’ll shut down production if gov’t doesn’t deal with cedi depreciation – Packaged water producersThe UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, added that people were…
The recent rains throughout the country and the opening of the spill gates for the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso, have caused considerable havoc to some water treatment plants in the country. In Accra, the continuous rains especially in the Eastern Region has contributed to the increase in the water level in the Weija Dam….
Floods caused by record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountain regions have so far claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people, and affected an estimated 33 million more, washing away homes, roads, railways, livestock and crops. Damages are now expected to total more than $30 billion — triple that of an earlier estimate…