News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 122
Bottom Trawling Cuts Wide Swath of Destruction
- Inter Press Service
Bottom trawling, a method of deep-sea fishing, is threatening the existence of ecosystems in the deep oceans, wreaking nearly irrevocable havoc on thousands of species and the very habitat in which they live.
Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security
- Inter Press Service
All the analysis and commentary about safety and security on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 ignored by far the biggest ongoing threat to global security: climate change.
BRAZIL: Beating Drought in Semiarid Northeast
- Inter Press Service
Violent clashes looked inevitable when some 1,500 desperately hungry peasants poured into this small Brazilian town. Riot police were staked out to prevent looting. It was the year 1993, and millions of people in Brazil's impoverished semiarid Northeast had been forced to the brink of starvation by three years of drought.
U.S., EU Sign Pact to Combat Fishing 'Piracy' on High Seas
- Inter Press Service
Fisheries representatives from two of the world's four largest fish consumer markets, Europe and the U.S., signed an agreement here Wednesday pledging to combat illegal fishing on the high seas.
Palestinians Thirsting for Justice in Water-Starved Occupied Territories
- Inter Press Service
In the strife-stricken Middle East, oil has always been in the realm of politics. But in the Israeli-occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank, oil has been supplanted by water.
Africa Remains Hamstrung in Battle for Water and Sanitation
- Inter Press Service
The statistics coming out of Africa are staggering: 40 percent of Africa’s 1 billion people live in urban areas an 60 percent live in slums, where water supplies and sanitation are 'severely inadequate', according to the Nairobi-based U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP).
'Sustainable Development Must Start with People'
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet in Brazil next June for a U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, the third since the landmark 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the question lingering in the minds of many is: what really is 'sustainable development' in the context of a fast-changing world of growing poverty, hunger, pollution, political repression and social unrest?
Mega Cities Could Trigger Water Shortages and Social Unrest
- Inter Press Service
The rapid growth of urban population - described as one of the world’s major demographic trends - has triggered an explosion of 'mega cities' in Asia, Latin America and Africa, causing a breakdown in basic services, including water supplies and sanitation facilities.
OP-ED: Expanding Deserts, Falling Water Tables and Toxins Driving People from Homes
- Inter Press Service
People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees. Rising seas and increasingly devastating storms grab headlines, but expanding deserts, falling water tables, and toxic waste and radiation are also forcing people from their homes.
Too Much Water As Dangerous As Too Little
- Inter Press Service
The international community is running the risk of losing the battle for water and sanitation in many cities around the world.
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