MINGORA: The people from Swat’s high-altitude areas have demanded of the government to install the hydraulic ‘ram pumps’ for the supply of water from streams to their houses. The demand comes in light ...

For years, residents and even schoolchildren had to walk 500 meters through rough and very steep terrain just to fetch water from a river in Don Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental. But such ...

CEBU, Philippines - In the remote farming community of Sitio Tinumpagan in Manjuyod, Negros Oriental, the supply of clean running water used to be a major problem. Villagers had to bear the ...

Running only on fast-moving water, the pumps are cheap and easy to maintain, enabling farmers to grow fruit and vegetables GOJAL VALLEY, Pakistan, March 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Shovel in ...

Shovel in hand, Naila Shah regularly walks two miles from her home to a newly planted apple orchard, high in the mountains of Khyber village in northern Pakistan. Only two years ago, it would have ...