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  • Swollen rivers still threaten millions of Chinese lives
    27 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Continuous rainstorms have continued to raise the water levels of many rivers across China, putting the lives of millions of people at risk and causing huge economic losses.
    The water level of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river has continued to rise quickly with many sections exceeding the danger line.
    Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province, is on high alert as the level of the Hanjiang river, a main tributary of the Yangtze that passes (…)

  • Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurie
    20 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    WSWS : News & Analysis : North America Interview with Dr. Michael Gros, a victim of water contamination at US Marine base By Joanne Laurier 20 June 2007
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    For more than 30 years, residents of Camp Lejeune, a US Marine Corps base in North Carolina, were exposed to contaminated water. From 1957 to 1987, Marines/Naval personnel, family members and civilians drank and used water (…)

  • The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The wrath of 2007: America’s great drought By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Published: 11 June 2007
    America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
    From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has (…)

  • Asia’s river systems face collapse
    23 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Asia’s river systems face collapse By Alan Boyd
    Water in the Indus River is so clouded that the native dolphin has in effect lost its eyesight and has to detect prey and other objects through sound waves.
    More than half of all the industrial waste and sewage in China flows into a single waterway, the Yangtze. And tributaries of the Ganges, one of Asia’s greatest cultural and religious treasures, are running dry because of the crippling burden of irrigation.
    Such has been the legacy of (…)

  • Water shortages may affect two-thirds of World by 2025, UN Says
    15 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 15 (APP): Two-thirds of the world’s population may be living in areas where there are water shortages by 2025...
    – http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?...

  • Israel’s Aquifer that provides 20% of water could become unusable
    10 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israel’s Aquifer that provides 20% of water could become unusable
    09/02/2007 By Zafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent
    One of Israel’s three sources for fresh water, the coastal aquifer, is in danger of becoming unusable because of contamination, according to data collected by the Water Authority and the Health Ministry.
    The data shows that over the past decade, 160 wells were shut down (because of various kinds of contamination) from an overall figure of 1,000 wells, which provide about (…)

  • We Can Stop Iraq’s Humanitarian Crisis
    9 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq is Having a Humanitarian Crisis! - What We Must Do
    The situation in Iraq is a full blown humanitarian crisis. Water and food supplies are either foul or insufficient. Lack of sanitation has produced an environment that supports disease. The people suffer from cold, heat, lack of light, clean water and food. Their medical system is in desperate need of medical supplies and clean, safe facilities. Since the US invasion, 3 1/2 years ago, they have lived the trauma of a 9/11 (…)

  • Canada fights to keep its water
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Canada fights to keep its water By Linda Duffin Business Reporter, BBC World Service, Calgary, Canada
    One country has abundant fresh water, far more than it needs. Across the border there is simply not enough and it has yet to find a solution to the problem.
    This is the situation Canada and the US find themselves in.
    Canada has, by some estimates, up to 20% of the world’s fresh water supplies and only 0.5% of the world’s population.
    You would think there would be enough to go (…)

  • Israel’s Water Wars
    19 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israel’s Water Wars Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 by Jason Godesky The stated rationale for Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was nonsense. Ostensibly, Israel invaded Lebanon because Hizb’allah captured two IDF soldiers that violated the Lebanese border.1 Later reports in Western media were changed so that Hizb’allah was entering Israel in an unprovoked attack; this is the generally understood scenario in the West, though it conflicts with the original reports and Lebanese police. Hizb’allah asked (…)

  • China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
    13 Aug 2006 04:03:41 GMT
    Source: Reuters
    BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - About 17 million people in southwest China don’t have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday.
    Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of 9.23 billion yuan ($1.15 billion), the Beijing News and the (…)