News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 119
SRI LANKA: Tsunami Demons Haunt the Coast
- Inter Press Service
Seven years after monster waves crashed into homes, hotels and vehicles on Sri Lanka’s coast, people in this island nation continue to be haunted by demons from the sea.
ARGENTINA: Water - Some Waste It, Some Want It
- Inter Press Service
In Argentina, the availability of water far outstrips demand, yet 11 percent of the population still lacks piped water, while a large proportion of the rest squanders it without a second thought.
MIDEAST: Life Without Water a Growing Threat
- Inter Press Service
'Taking our water is not like taking a toy. Water is life, they cannot play with our lives like this,' says Maher Najjar, deputy general director of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) of the recent Israeli threat to cut electricity, water and infrastructure services to the occupied Gaza Strip.
HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
Despite, or perhaps because of, a host of international actors, 2.5 million U.S. dollars in funding and five years of empty promises, residents of some of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighbourhoods have yet to see running water in their vicinity.
HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water — PART 1
- Inter Press Service
2.5 million U.S. dollars to supply water to several marginal neighbourhoods in the capital. Approved in 2006. Five years later the water has yet to run. Children are still in the streets bearing bottles and buckets.
Belo Monte Dam and Hunters Endanger Amazon Turtles
- Inter Press Service
Luiz Cardoso da Costa was horrified as he watched the Amazonian manatee, a large docile beast, bleeding out from the knife wound he had dealt it, yet greedily gulping down grasses as if eating could somehow stave off death.
Bangladesh Demands Climate Justice
- Inter Press Service
Mosammet Monwara walks more than three km every alternate day to fetch water for her family of five in a heavy earthen pitcher.
SOUTH AMERICA: Coming Together to Preserve the La Plata Basin
- Inter Press Service
Five South American countries have launched a joint sustainable management programme for the Río de la Plata basin, to preserve one of the largest fresh water reserves in the world.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan Nations Yet to Break the Ice
- Inter Press Service
Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban.
U.S.: Bottled Water Companies Target Minorities, But So Do Soda Firms
- Inter Press Service
Water is the lifeblood of this planet, whose inhabitants are watching its accelerated spiral into crisis mode even as they struggle to address the issues and lifestyles that are stretching the earth's resources thin.
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