News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 112
Study Damns Mekong Dams
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Aug 28 (IPS) - Impoverished Laos is unlikely to cancel a Thai project to build a mega dam across the Mekong River at Xayaburi, despite warnings from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that it could devastate the region’s rich biodiversity.
'Eating' Water Latest and Rising Threat to a Thirsty World
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM, Aug 27 (IPS) - Paradoxically, the water we "eat" is likely to become one of the growing new dangers to millions of the world’s thirsty, hungering for this finite natural resource.
Cambodia’s Hydro Plans Carry Steep Costs
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 18 (IPS) - The Cambodian government has committed to the construction of two dams along the Mekong River in order to meet a huge demand for electricity, but environmental groups warn that severe repercussions loom for this strategy.
Q&A: Water and Food Security Are Inseparable
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) - With the U.N. ominously warning of an impending food crisis following severe droughts in farmlands in the United States, Brazil, Russia and at least two rain-deprived states in India, the world will once again turn its attention to a finite natural resource: water.
U.S. Drought Exposes "Hydro-Illogical" Water Management
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (IPS) - The historic drought withering much of the United States this summer has revealed a need for strategies to better manage water supplies that could remain under severe pressure both this year and in the longer term.
Mexican Communities Fight Mini-Dams
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Aug 03 (IPS) - Small-scale hydroelectric dams with a capacity of under 30 MW are seen by the authorities in Mexico as an important alternative for generating energy. But local communities reject them on the argument that they would cause social, economic and environmental damages.
Human Right to Water and Sanitation Remains a Political Mirage
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 01 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N.'s highest policy-making body, declared water and sanitation a basic human right back in July 2010, the adoption of that divisive resolution was hailed by many as a "historic" achievement.
India Drowning in Waste, Experts Warn
- Inter Press Service
BANGALORE, Aug 01 (IPS) - Almitra Patel, a civil engineer by qualification, says she was first alerted to India’s huge problem of inadequate waste disposal when she noticed that the frogs in the marshlands near her farmhouse, on the city’s outskirts, had stopped croaking.
Climate Change and Poverty, a Deadly Cocktail for Dominicans
- Inter Press Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Jul 26 (IPS) - "Nobody mourns the poor, you know." That is the grim conclusion of a resident of La Ciénaga, one of the many poverty-stricken settlements clustered along the banks of the Ozama River in the Dominican capital, and which are at the mercy of the weather.
Cultivating Toxic Crops
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Jul 25 (IPS) - At a time when spiraling input costs and perennial shortages of irrigation water are breaking countless farmers’ backs, a small village community on the outskirts of Lahore appears to have been spared.
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