News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 137
BOTSWANA: Acquiring a Taste for Recycled Water
- Inter Press Service
Many Batswana are quick to recoil at the mere mention of drinking treated wastewater.
US: Govt Claims Slammed as 'Final Kill' Looms for Gulf Oil Leak
- Inter Press Service
Between April and August this year, 4.9 million barrels of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. How much remains today is not yet clear and is a hot topic of debate among academic and government scientists.
Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and marine life due to the BP oil disaster.
MALAWI: Local Management the Tonic for Water Woes
- Inter Press Service
Hop over a seep of filthy sludge behind a bathroom screened with ragged sacks, turn past the toilet with battered cardboard walls, crab between mud-brick shanties roofed with rusty metal... There: emerge into a small, neat yard where a dozen women and girls are filling plastic buckets from five water taps sticking out of concrete wall.
BRAZIL: Environmental Impact Studies on Dams Count for Little in Amazon
- Inter Press Service
'It's a fait accompli,' acknowledges André Villas-Boas, head of the independent SocioEnvironmental Institute (ISA), resigned to the fact that the legal actions and protests have failed to block the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil's Amazon jungle region.
ZIMBABWE: Questions Raised Over Water Treatment Funding
- Inter Press Service
The memories of Zimbabwe's 2008-2009 cholera outbreak are fresh in the minds of everyone except the people who have the safety of the country's water in their hands.
Ocean Losing Its Green
- Inter Press Service
The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital 'red blood cells' have declined more than 40 percent since 1950 and the rate of decline is increasing due to climate change, scientists reported this week.
ZIMBABWE: Badly Needed Work Begins on Bulawayo Water System
- Inter Press Service
Dispersing feasting flies and angry residents from a manhole cover spewing sewage from people’s homes and into the road: another day in the working life of Njabulo Siziba. It's a dirty, frustrating, thankless job as a civil engineer for Bulawayo city council, but help is at hand for Siziba and the city he serves.
VENEZUELA: Chronic Oil Leaks Sully Lake Maracaibo, Livelihoods
- Inter Press Service
Dark oil slicks are spreading from the middle of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo towards the shores -- the wetlands, mangroves, beaches and docks. Oil is permeating fishing nets, coating the garbage dumped into the water, killing off wildlife and driving away residents and tourists.
GUATEMALA: Reviving Lake Atitlán
- Inter Press Service
'There are hardly any tourists now, and nearly all the hotels are empty,' says Rosa Rosales, who works at the Hotel Pa Muelle, on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, a natural treasure that has been overcome by pollution.
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