News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 130
Tourism Is Poisoning the Mexican Caribbean
- Inter Press Service
The booming tourist industry along Mexico's Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the 'Riviera Maya,' is polluting the world's largest underwater cave system and harming the world's second largest coral reef, a new study has found.
Pakistan Sinking Into Water Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Pakistan is still reeling from flooding that caused one of the world’s costliest natural disasters in 2010, with millions of people lacking shelter, infrastructure in ruins and donations falling short of appeals. But worse may come.
MEXICO: 'They Don't Want Their Town to Vanish' - Underwater
- Inter Press Service
The people of three towns that would be flooded by the El Zapotillo dam to be built in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have refused to be relocated and are fighting to save their homes.
ZIMBABWE: Filtering Fact Fiction About D.I.Y. Water Treatment
- Inter Press Service
The southern Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo has not been spared the heavy rains that have fallen across Southern Africa; the water is welcome in this semi-arid part of the country, but the coming of the rainy season has provoked fresh memories of the 2008 cholera epidemic.
China and Brazil Inundate Latin America with Dams
- Inter Press Service
The growing presence of Chinese and Brazilian capital in Latin America's energy sector is facilitating the construction of hydroelectric complexes, but is also the fuelling nationalist stances that are adding to the environmental criticisms of those major projects.
ZAMBIA: Unsolved Riddle of Sustaining Water Utilities
- Inter Press Service
Sebastian Chilekwa’s job title at the Luapula Water and Sewerage Company is 'Managing Director of Dilemma'. Or it should be.
Arctic Defrost Dumping Snow on U.S. and Europe
- Inter Press Service
The world's northern freezer is on rapid defrost as large volumes of warm water are pouring into the Arctic Ocean, speeding the melt of sea ice, according to a new study.
SRI LANKA: East Reels Under Triple Whammy
- Inter Press Service
The name Mawilaru will be indelibly linked to the history of over 25 years of civil strife in Sri Lanka, especially its bloody end. It was here that the final phase of the war was triggered in June 2006.
Europe Begins to Run Short of Water
- Inter Press Service
Half of the Czech Republic’s population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned.
BRAZIL: 'Don Quixote' of River Transport Starting to Win Battles
- Inter Press Service
It is mere ignorance that stands in the way of Brazil having a broad network of navigable waterways and leads to the wasted potential of the country's great rivers, laments José Alex de Oliva, superintendent of inland navigation at Brazil's national waterways transport regulator (ANTAQ).
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