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  • How to harvest water from clouds of fog

    October 06, 2023 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    As the drought in Kenya drags on, people are collecting water from the air by using plastic to funnel fog off of trees into buckets at night or a machine that pulls water from hot, moisture-filled air like a dehumidifier would.

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  • La primera planta de tratamiento de aguas con microalgas

    September 28, 2023 |

    +Comunidad |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    Una iniciativa público-privada impulsada por la Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FAUBA), busca tratar aguas residuales urbanas y producir biofertilizantes a partir de organismos que se utilizan para suplementos dietarios humanos y animales.

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  • The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

    September 18, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Peru

    El Movimiento Peruanos sin Agua is leading an initiative to install fog catchers in communities across Peru that lack access to water as they continue to face a drought. The nonprofit provides communities with a netted device, a network of tubes, and storage containers that they put together to harvest water from fog.

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  • Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

    September 18, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    The Safer Hands Health Initiative (SHI) aims to reduce maternal mortality across the country by educating and empowering birth attendants, healthcare centers and pregnant women to use safe delivery practices. SHI partners with medical boards and area hospitals to provide free training for birth attendants and also provides sterile birthing kits to expectant mothers. So far, SHI has trained over 200 birth attendants and has distributed more than 10,000 birthing kits.

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  • An innovative solution to tackling Nigeria's water crisis

    September 11, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Imo

    The Filter X360 uses gravity to purify water without requiring any power supply or chemicals by using ultrafiltration technology to remove bacteria and viruses from fresh water sourced from nearby rivers, lakes and ponds. The machine can purify 1,000 liters per hour and reduces the risk of illness and also prevents locals from having to purchase bottled water or simply go without clean drinking water.

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  • Paris Is Undergoing a Water Revolution

    September 07, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: France, Paris

    By focusing on preventing water pollution at the source, fixing leaks in the system, and public education, Paris cleaned up its water network and decreased water use by 10% over the last ten years.

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  • Students challenged their school board to act on sustainability — and it worked

    September 07, 2023 |

    WBUR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Students in the Salt Lake City school district advocated for their school board to pass a clean energy resolution and make sustainability renovations. It worked. Now, the district is moving forward with a $29 million dollar project aligned with those goals.

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  • Peru's water shortage: Meet the fog-catchers of Lima

    September 04, 2023 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru, Lima

    Locals in Lima, Peru, are combating severe water scarcity by stringing up nylon netting on hills to capture moisture from fog. The water runs down the net, into gutters, through filters, and into collection tanks.

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  • A pad bank for girls to stay in school

    August 30, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Pad-A-Girl project by the Citizen Participation Advancement and Awareness Initiative (CPAAI) helps those experiencing period poverty, particularly girls in primary and secondary schools and underprivileged women. CPAAI offers washable pads that are good for five years, installed pad banks in area schools and taught the women and girls how to create washable pads themselves. The program launched in 2020 and has since helped more than 7,000 women and girls across 25 schools and communities.

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  • Responses to schistosomiasis paying off in North Central Nigeria, despite challenges

    August 23, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory

    Interventions like annual mass administration of medicines, increasing clean water access and educational efforts are being deployed across several states to help curb the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) like schistosomiasis. These interventions have been active since 1995 and through the help of partnering with other local and international organizations, like the German E-Merck, rates of NTDs like schistosomiasis have dramatically decreased over the years.

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