News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 120
CENTRAL ASIA: Together They Lose
- Inter Press Service
Rarely have so many donor countries spent so much for so long to achieve so little. In fact, the scores of Western countries ranging from the Netherlands to the United States that have tried for 20 years to coax the Central Asian nations to use their water cooperatively and create a win-win situation for all have found that the Central Asians are cooperating less and less, not more and more.
ASIA-PACIFIC: Refugees of Climate Change Rising Steadily
- Inter Press Service
Asian countries, home to about 60 percent of the world's population, will be hit hardest by changing weather patterns and a degrading environment, research indicates.
Floods Leave Thai Economy Gasping
- Inter Press Service
No guns are needed in this battle. Only the muscle of Thai soldiers defending a sprawling industrial estate on the eastern end of this city from an advancing enemy - flood waters.
CLIMATE CHANGE: A Rising Sea Threatens Pacific Islands
- Inter Press Service
As world leaders gear up to spend the coming weeks in South Africa haggling over economically bearable cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is already exacerbating environmental conditions and threatening the lives and livelihoods of thousands of Pacific Islanders.
China Steps in to Patrol the Lawless Mekong
- Inter Press Service
China plans to send armed patrol boats down the Mekong River and assert its authority over a corner of Southeast Asia infested by warlords and drug traffickers.
Climate Change Arouses Scientific Curiosity in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
Climate change has inspired dozens of scientists at Mexican public universities to conduct research on its effects and seek ways to confront them.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Bangladeshi Women on the Brink
- Inter Press Service
Char Nongolia village is a basket case when it comes to climate change impacts such as increasing salinity, frequent cyclones, tidal surges, erratic rainfall and extended droughts.
ENVIRONMENT-THAILAND: 'Bangkok Ignored Warnings'
- Inter Press Service
This sinking mega-city’s eight million people are paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
LATIN AMERICA: Communities Should Go to Court Over Water
- Inter Press Service
Local communities in Latin America should go to court more often to fight for access to drinking water, regarded as a universal right, and combine legal action with social protests and political lobbying, experts say.
EL SALVADOR: Water Bill Stagnates in Congress
- Inter Press Service
A bill for protection, recovery and use of water resources in El Salvador, drafted by a platform of about 100 social, religious and academic organisations, has been bogged down in parliament for the past five years in spite of the country's water crisis.
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