News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 128
WATER-SOUTH AFRICA: Managing Flooding on the Orange River
- Inter Press Service
Many farms and crops were devastated when the January floods hit South Africa at the start of this year. Farmer organisation Agri South Africa (AgriSa) estimated damages as high as 270 million dollars.
BRAZIL: Belo Monte Dam Faces Endless Hurdles and Controversies
- Inter Press Service
The Xingu river flows around small isles and islands and across rapids and waterfalls in Brazil's Amazon jungle, and has a dramatically reduced flow during dry season. Navigating it presents constant hurdles and risks.
A Fatal Addiction to Plastic
- Inter Press Service
'Be fantastic, don't use plastic!' chanted a troop of 10-year- olds from President Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in Honolulu at the conclusion of an international conference on the millions of tonnes of trash that enter the oceans every year, with serious consequences for marine life and habitats as well as to human health and the global economy.
BOTSWANA: Capital Upgrade for City's Sewers
- Inter Press Service
The evidence of Gaborone's inadequate sewerage system hangs in the air over the Botswana capital's low income area. Pit latrines dominate, and residents complain that the city doesn't empty them frequently enough. But the end may be in sight.
Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastics Lobby
- Inter Press Service
Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life.
Heaviest Ever Floods in Northern Namibia
- Inter Press Service
North-central Namibia is experiencing the heaviest floods ever recorded, but unlike in previous years, the area is fully prepared.
Plastic Particles Circulating Endlessly in World's Oceans
- Inter Press Service
That plastic bottle or plastic take-away coffee lid that has 20 minutes of use can spend decades killing countless seabirds, marine animals and fish, experts reported here this week.
MALAWI: Enterprising Approach Underlies New Sanitation Campaign
- Inter Press Service
The market can do better: a sanitation and hygiene campaign to be launched in Malawi plans to apply this tenet to improve cleanliness and public health the country's cities.
BOLIVIA: Cochabamba Still Thirsty
- Inter Press Service
There is still no apparent solution to the unsatisfied demand for drinking water in Cochabamba, 11 years after this central Bolivian city made international headlines with a popular uprising that halted the privatisation of water service.
ECUADOR: Water Management Transcends 'Public or Private' Debate
- Inter Press Service
For one day, civil servants are trading their desks for the chilly highland plains in a rural community 3,500 metres above sea level on the outskirts of the Ecuadorian capital, where they are helping to plant native trees.
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