News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 141
MIDEAST: Settler Sewage Ruins Palestinian Crops, Drinking Water
- Inter Press Service
Residents of this Palestinian village refuse to buy the idea that the flood of raw sewage from the adjacent Israeli settlement of Kfar Etzion, that destroyed vineyards and contaminated their drinking water, was an accident.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Sharing the Okavango
- Inter Press Service
Each January, a giant pulse of water from heavy summer rains over the south of Angola enters the Okavango River system and begins a five-month journey through Namibia to a richly biodiverse swamp in Botswana's Kalahari desert. The river is a rarity, scarcely disturbed by human development along its 1,100 kilometre length: shaping its future is the delicate task of the Okavango River Basin Commission.
MOZAMBIQUE: Co-existing With Floods
- Inter Press Service
April signals the tail end of the flood season in Mozambique. The country's water managers will soon be able to appraise the effects of changing policies.
WATER-LESOTHO: Getting Community Consultation Right
- Inter Press Service
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project will move into its second phase in 2010. The first phase has been praised as a shining example of transboundary water sharing in Africa, but community dissatisfaction may mean a rough ride for its extension.
MOZAMBIQUE: Weather Service Key to Flood Disaster Management
- Inter Press Service
Mozambique's government learned some tough lessons from the devastating floods that hit the country a decade ago. Experts say the disaster management plans drawn up since are a model for other African countries.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Benefits of Working Together on Water
- Inter Press Service
The river basin organisation people are gathered in Botswana again: the theme this year is 'benefit-sharing', an approach to allocating water that, it is promised, will accomplish nothing less than to make more water.
NAMIBIA: Banking Water for the Future
- Inter Press Service
In the driest capital city south of the Sahara, water engineers are 'banking' ground water to meet future demand, but the enormous costs might sink the project before water can be harvested.
SOUTH AMERICA: Clear Water - Mercosur's Underground Treasure
- Inter Press Service
Invisible beneath a vast area of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the Guaraní Aquifer is one of the world's largest reserves of freshwater. Despite supplying water to millions of people, it is neither contaminated nor overexploited.
WATER: Swazi Village Gets a Self-Sustaining Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
No one loves the bill collector, and Sifiso Shongwe gets a chilly welcome as he goes from household to household collecting money for Maphilingo's community water scheme.
BIODIVERSITY: Trade Trumps Concern for Threatened Marine Species
- Inter Press Service
As details emerge about the backroom politics and contentious votes that led to the failure to protect any of the several marine species up for international protection at a key conference the past two weeks, conservation advocates are looking ahead to influence regional, local and even individual choices in the next round of battles to save the threatened species.
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