Tag Archive | Japan
Yemen: Japanese funding for small-scale rural water projects
In 2010, the Japanese government has funded several small-scale water projects in Yemen though its “Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects” scheme. These projects include: construction of a water supply system in an arid area in Al-Mouza’ District, serving 800 people including the pupils of a primary school a water supply system serving about […]
Japan: selling sewage to Australia
Japan has an unlikely new export product: the sewage it normally dumps into rivers or the sea. The first buyer is the Australian mining industry. Could this also become a new money earner for developing countries? Well, no. The “export quality” sewage in question is effluent from high-tech Japanese wastewater treatment plants. An innovative trade […]
Nicaragua, Granada: Japan grants US$2.5mn to improve sanitation
The Japanese government has signed a 55mn-cordoba (US$2.56mn) grant agreement for the expansion of the sanitation system in western Nicaragua’s Granada city, local paper La Prensa reported. The project involves installing 17km of pipelines to channel untreated sewage to help stop the contamination of Cocibolca lake, the country’s main reservoir. Some 100,000 people will benefit […]
Nigeria: Japan to fund rural water supply and sanitation centre
President Umaru Yar’Adua’s seven point agenda and the Vision 2020 have received a boost from the Japanese Government which [has] agreed to make significant contributions in the area of health, education, water supply, rural electrification and agriculture to the vision as well as significantly enhance its bilateral Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Loan to Nigeria in […]
Japan to restart loans to developing countries via JICA, priorities include water
A government panel has given it’s approval to the proposal to allow the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to make investments and provide loans to developing countries again, reversing a 2001 decision to strip JICA of such power, officials said. The Overseas Economic Cooperation Council, spearheaded by PM Taro Aso, gave its nod to the […]
Japan unveils $5 bln green loans for Asia at G20
Japan announced a $5 billion loan fund on Saturday [14 March 2009] to help developing nations, hard hit by the global credit crisis, to put in place running water, solar power systems and other environmental infrastructure. [...] Under the initiative, announced by [Finance Minister Kaoru] Yosano at the G20 [Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors […]
Japan: sewage yields more gold than top mines
A sewage treatment facility in [Nagano prefecture,] central Japan has recorded a higher gold yield from sludge than can be found at some of the world’s best mines. [T]he high percentage of gold found at the Suwa facility was probably due to the large number of precision equipment manufacturers in the vicinity that use the […]
Millions to benefit from UK-Dutch water and sanitation initiative
Millions of people in Africa and Asia will be provided with clean drinking water and decent sanitation thanks to a new joint initiative from the UK and the Netherlands. Announcing UK support for the “Framework for Action”, DFID Minister Gareth Thomas spoke of the need for greater progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on […]
Africa: Japan vows to double aid by 2012, sets up “Water Security Action Team”
Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to double his country’s aid to Africa within five years. Mr Fukuda made the pledge in front of leaders from more than 50 African countries at the opening session of the Fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IV) in Yokohama. Japan is competing with other countries […]
