Millions of dollars wasted on water projects in Africa --
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on rural water projects in Africa because the donors and aid agencies that built them ignored maintenance, a new report claimed Friday.
A paper published today, November 24, 2011 by the International Institute for Environment and Development, warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades, with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities.