Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released ...

Over two decades ago, I worked for a cruise line called The Big Red Boat (the original Disney Cruise before Mickey had his own ships). The ship was colorful, cheerful, and, like many of its passengers ...

The African CDC has recently warned of a surge in cholera cases across the continent. Cholera, caused by certain strains of V. cholerae, is a waterborne infection that spreads rapidly, particularly in ...

Growing up, Amaka Godfrey remembers how much of her life revolved around water. She'd have to lug a can of water to her primary school in Nigeria each day, which had no water of its own. Later, in ...

The World Bank project has provided over one million liters of clean water to more than 22,000 people across 18 IDP sites in Port-au-Prince. “My name is Marie Jeanne Montrose. Married, but now a widow ...

World Bank projects in Cambodia, the Lao PDR, and Papua New Guinea are working to improve water and sanitation access. These projects are expected to benefit a total of 185,000 people by 2026, over ...

As we flush our toilets and drain our sinks, few of us consider where our wastewater goes next. Yet, the wastewater treatment industry, a cornerstone of modern sanitation, is facing challenges that ...

The 2024 extreme and historical drought that hit the Amazon exposed a chronic problem: access to drinking water and sanitation in Indigenous lands, where only a third of households have proper water ...