News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 140
BULGARIA: Blue Danube Meanders Into Road Building
- Inter Press Service
The European Union Danube Strategy (DS), unfolding this year, is proving to be a litmus test for the viability of the concept of ‘green growth’ in Eastern Europe.
ENVIRONMENT: Small Islands Urge Action at UN Oceans Meet
- Inter Press Service
Faced with rising sea levels, dying coral reefs and decreasing fish stocks, small island developing states (SIDS) are feeling the effects of ocean decline, and they want wealthier countries to do more to ensure the survival of the world’s seas and other waterways.
ECUADOR: Native Groups Poised for Nationwide Protests Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous organisations in Ecuador opposed to a water reform bill that they say would give mining companies and agribusiness privileged access to water have threatened to extend their protests around the country in order to keep the legislature from passing the bill without certain modifications.
Residents Hope 2010 Flooding Prompts Govt Action in Luanda
- Inter Press Service
The water seeped into Feliciana Teresa Matia’s home from beneath its mud floor and when her 20-year-old son Francisco got up to go to work, grabbing a metal pole for guidance in the dark, he was electrocuted.
ENVIRONMENT: Oil Spill Gives Urgency to UN Oceans Meet
- Inter Press Service
The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has given increased urgency to the fifth Global Oceans Conference taking place here at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
U.S.: Offshore Drilling Badly Tarnished by Gulf Oil Leak
- Inter Press Service
As oil seeps into the environmentally and economically critical Gulf of Mexico following an explosion on a rig there two weeks ago, some groups are saying this catastrophe should mark the end of offshore drilling for oil - and be a 'clarion call' for moving away from fossil fuels.
CUBA: Drought Looming — Again
- Inter Press Service
As Cuba feels the impact of a drought that is affecting the entire Caribbean region, authorities have stepped up calls for water savings in households and the public sector.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Some For You, Some For Me: Sharing the Inkomati River
- Inter Press Service
At Ekuvinjelweni village, in South Africa's Mpumalanga Province, the Komati River flows clear and fast through the mountains. Along its banks here are commercial farms with intensive irrigation works, mixed with subsistence farmers who rely on rain for their fields and livestock - a tricky proposition in an area that has endured severe droughts in the past.
ECUADOR: Native Groups in Showdown Over Water Bill
- Inter Press Service
The second and final parliamentary debate of a new water bill to regulate water resource management in Ecuador is due to begin May 4, amid stark divisions among indigenous movements and between them and the government of left-leaning President Rafael Correa.
Savings Spurned in Zimbabwe Water Purification
- Inter Press Service
Zimbabwe spends an estimated 100 million dollars a year importing aluminium sulphate for water treatment plants. But a local entrepreneur has developed a technique to extract the needed compound from kaolin and flint clays abundantly available within the country.
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