Nov 04 Senate backs resolution to get rid of EPA clean water rules By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Despite White House objections, the Senate voted for a resolution Wednesday to scrap new federal rules to protect smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands from development and pollution. Continue reading
Nov 02 Watch Northeast Storm Victims Begin to Lose Patience at Lack of Basic Needs Northeast Storm Victims Begin to Lose Patience at Lack of Basic Needs… Continue watching
Mar 22 Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World’s Trouble Spots By Larisa Epatko In northeastern Japan, where people are still sifting through wreckage from the March 11 tsunami, more than a million households are without water. While in Haiti, health workers are scrambling to stave off a cholera epidemic. Still, in other parts… Continue reading
Feb 28 Students Use Invention to Help Haitians Get Clean Water By Larisa Epatko Helping an orphanage in Haiti gain access to clean water gave some high school students the chance to put their engineering know-how to good use. Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch Health Workers Push to Eradicate Guinea Worm Parasite in Sudan Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Sudan about a painful and debilitating parasite called the guinea worm and efforts by health workers and the Carter Center to eradicate it. Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions… Continue watching