News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 100
EUROPE: Floods Are Here to Stay
- Inter Press Service
BUDAPEST, Jun 15 (IPS) - Record floods in Central and Eastern Europe have highlighted some of the challenges of climate change for the continent, as well as the floods' potential to spur populist politics.
Climate Change Threatens Water and Food Security in Antigua
- Inter Press Service
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 12 (IPS) - With their islands devoid of rivers or streams, farmers in Antigua and Barbuda have been building dams and ponds for centuries, harvesting rainwater to irrigate their crops and provide drinking water for their livestock.
Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
- Inter Press Service
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Jun 12 (IPS) - Khadija Komboani's nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar.
Q&A: U.N. Looks to High Seas to Alleviate Food Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 (IPS) - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is convinced there is sufficient global capacity to produce enough food to adequately feed the world's seven billion people.
Making a Business Out of Water Rationing
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jun 09 (IPS) - For 61-year-old Sarah Chikwanha from water-starved Chitungwiza, a town about 25 kilometres outside Harare, Zimbabwe, there is no choice. She must buy her water from illegal water traders, whose businesses have sprung up across the country.
The Future of the Pacific Ocean Hangs in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jun 08 (IPS) - The immense scale of the Pacific Ocean at 165 million square kilometres inspires awe and fascination, but for those who inhabit the 22 Pacific island countries and territories, it is the very source of life. Without it, livelihoods and economies would collapse, hunger and ill-health would become endemic and human survival would be threatened.
French Town Makes Environment Everyone's Business
- Inter Press Service
BESANÇON, France, Jun 05 (IPS) - Christina E. is a mother of three who lives in an apartment building in an upscale neighbourhood in Paris. As someone who prepares meals daily, she wishes she had a place besides her household garbage bin where she could put biodegradable waste.
Ecuador’s Fragile Páramo Ecosystem Threatened by Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Jun 04 (IPS) - The "páramos" or high plateaus of Ecuador, a crucial source of water, are showing signs of extreme fragility and a troubling loss of capacity to conserve this vital resource and sustain the survival of numerous species found nowhere else on earth.
Water Debt and Leaks Plague the Poor
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 23 (IPS) - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill.
New Effort Targets the Leading Killers of Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 22 (IPS) - PATH, a Seattle-based global health development organisation, is aiming to save two million lives by 2015 by jointly tackling diarrhea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally.
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