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As super El Nino looms, wealthy nations must learn from those already living with water scarcity

COMMENT: As a country on the frontline of the climate crisis, Pakistan is accustomed to water insecurity, writes Dr Shakeel Hayat. The country has had no choice but to find solutions to the climate crisis

The Independent UK

How an ‘unprecedented’ super El Nino could reshape extreme weather for 12 of Asia’s biggest cities

IN FOCUS: Exclusive: Cities could swing to opposite extremes – according to research from WaterAid – with some pushed towards drought and others facing flooding. Stuti Mishra reports

The Independent UK

Nearly one billion people forced to use healthcare facilities without clean water

‘No one should have to give birth, receive treatment for an infection or undergo surgery in a healthcare facility without access to clean water,’ says WaterAid

The Independent UK

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The rise and fall of Jason Arday: a full rundown of the questions being asked

From accusations of plagiarism to queries over his charity work, we list all the allegations against the academic

The Guardian - UK

RANDOM MUSING | Empire's Guilt? How Cambridge's youngest black professor 'conned' Great Britain

How did Jason Arday’s extraordinary claims travel from interview to interview without serious scrutiny? His rise and fall tells a larger story about Cambridge, imperial guilt, institutional theatre and the modern Britain that wanted to believe.

The Times of India

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

The Guardian - UK

Almost 100 humanitarian groups call on Burnham to commit to climate action

Call comes following the decision to reallocate international aid to help fight the climate crisis towards funding a cap on UK bus fares

The Independent UK

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Voices: As a chef, I can take access to water for granted. But it is everything for mothers forced to risk their lives giving birth

COMMENT: In Malawi, broadcaster Andi Oliver sees the transformative impact on clean water can have on communities where having a baby brings any number of challenges

The Independent UK

A mother risked everything to bring her twins into the world. Her story should shock us all

COMMENT: Basile Ouedraogo salutes the strength of a mother – Dorcas – who undertook a terrifying journey to try and get the help she needed to safely give birth, and how her story is far too familar

The Independent UK

The women forced to risk death so their babies can live – and the fight to help them

IN FOCUS: Would-be mothers in northern Ghana have to travel miles across river and road while heavily pregnant – to reach health centres without clean water and all the means to help them. Rachel Hagan reports

The Independent UK

Mothers and midwives from across Africa and UK demand world leaders protect women giving birth

Protest in Geneva calls for clean water in every health centre and maternity ward to save mothers and newborns from dying – with the call coming in the wake of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The Independent UK

Baby clothes, razor blades and water buckets: Exposing the reality of global inequalities in maternal care

In a new campaign, WaterAid are showcasing what mothers bring to hospital in their maternal bags. In London that means baby clothes; in Malawi, razor blades to cut the umbilical cord and in Ethiopia, a bucket to collect water to help deliver the baby

The Independent UK

As a new mother, it is terrifying that woman around the world give birth without clean water

COMMENT: Amira Aleem gave birth to her son surrounded by the care afforded by a London hospital. She knows many mothers around the world are not so lucky – and wants to see that change

The Independent UK

The Independent partners with WaterAid for Earth Day 2026

The Independent donates £20,000 in advertising to help amplify WaterAid’s message and reach new audiences

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World Bank announces clean water plan for one billion people

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Landmark push to provide an extra one billion people with reliable clean water

The World Bank – alongside partners such as WaterAid – aim to complete ‘Water Forward’ project by 2030

The Independent UK

I’m forever grateful my baby and I got the hospital care we needed – mothers across Africa need our help

COMMENT: Women everywhere want to be assured of a safe and dignified birth, where they are listened to and their needs – that they and their baby are protected from preventable harm and illness – acted upon, writes Helen Hamilton

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‘A mother giving birth could bleed to death while I’m out looking for water’

ON THE GROUND: Two midwives in Africa describe the transformative power of clean water to stop mothers dying during childbirth – something they fear happens all too often. Rachel Hagan reports

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Women almost 150 times more likely to die from maternal sepsis in Africa than Europe – costing thousands of lives

New WaterAid report says investing in and delivering water, sanitation and hygiene across healthcare facilities could prevent 10 million cases of maternal sepsis and 8,580 deaths worldwide every year

The Independent UK

Campaign launched to protect lives of new mothers and babies with clean water pledge

Charity WaterAid says every two seconds a women gives birth in a hospital or healthcare centre without clean water as it begins ‘Time to Deliver ‘ campaign

The Independent UK

The UK is shirking its responsibility to ensure one of the most basic rights

COMMENT: A year after the government announced significant cuts to the UK’s aid budget, Rupa Huq argues that we need to project access to water and sanitation for women and girls around the world

The Independent UK

Aid groups struggle to attract donors as floods devastate Mozambique

The country director for WaterAid Mozambique says it is proving much harder for aid agencies to generate funds to help than in previous crises

The Independent UK

The climate crisis, aid cuts and deepening poverty are combining to drive a crisis in Madagascar

IN FOCUS: The humanitarian crisis in the south of the country has worsened in recent months, with the head of the country’s UN humanitarian operation telling Nick Ferris there is currently little hope for improvement

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of mothers are bleeding to death giving birth. Aid cuts are denying them a solution

IN DEPTH: A breakthrough to stop life-threatening bleeding in childbirth was only just starting to reach the mothers most at risk when Donald Trump’s aid cuts hit. Rachel Schraer speaks to health workers about the dire consequences

The Independent UK

How super-rich influencers are helping to supply international aid

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