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Project Snapshot: Bringing drinking water to the desert
Country Algeria Sector Infrastructure Challenge: Severe water shortages in the city of Algiers Solution: $200 million in OPIC financing for the construction of a reverse-osmosis water desalination...
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Timeline: A look back at OPIC’s swift response to the 2011 uprisings in the...
January marks the first anniversary of the protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, which set off broader uprisings that spread throughout the country and much of the Arab World. In the year since then, the...
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Development and health
Saturday April 7 is World Health Day, an annual event the World Health Organization hosts to call attention to public health challenges across the planet. Although these health challenges are not...
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Investing in food security
President Obama delivered the opening keynote on May 18 to the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington, D.C. The event precedes the G8 summit Saturday May 20 at Camp David,...
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Monthly news wrap-up: May 2012
OPIC provided political risk insurance to rebuild a flour mill and animal feed facility that was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake. This picture is from a tour at the grand reopening of the facility on...
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Featured photo: World Water Week
In Ghana, water is purified to make it safe for consumption. The technology is part of the country's National Water Infrastructure Modernization Project, a partnership between Belstar Corp., a Florida...
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Project spotlight: Hamma desalination plant provides clean drinking water for...
A decade ago, Algeria’s capital city of Algiers was suffering a severe shortage of clean drinking water, resulting in strict rationing, stockpiling, as well as the consumption of dirty water by...
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Featured photo: Supporting clean and dependable drinking water in Algeria
In a desert city surrounded by seawater, a water desalination plant is bringing clean drinking water to many of Algiers’ residents. The plant, which uses reverse osmosis technology, was built with the...
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Four ways OPIC projects support access to water around the world
World Water Week seeks to highlight the key role that water plays in advancing global health and prosperity, and to foster discussion around innovative and effective ways to increase access to water...
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Desalination, irrigation, sanitation and more: How OPIC supports access to...
Clean water is essential to life and also to addressing many of the world’s biggest development challenges from poverty to malnutrition. World leaders formally recognized the importance of water to...
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