News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 58
Interoceanic Canal Bogged Down in Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Apr 08 (IPS) - Nearly three years after Nicaragua granted a 50-year concession to the Chinese consortium HKND to build and operate an interoceanic canal, the megaproject has stalled, partly due to a severe drought that threatens the rivers and lake that will form part of the canal.
Sri Lanka Braces for Extreme Heat
- Inter Press Service
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, Apr 07 (IPS) - Sri Lanka is facing the heat from a scorching sun for the past one month. In recent times, the country has imposed power cuts after almost a decade. The main reason was the stoppage at a coal power plant, but engineers at the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) admit that the island's hydro-power generation capacity is at such a critical low that without additional coal, diesel and renewable generation, the country's full demand for power cannot be met.
Saving Beira
- Inter Press Service
BEIRA, Mozambique, Apr 06 (IPS) - Mozambique's second largest city, Beira, is heading for climate change-induced disaster. Cyclones, floods, storm surges and the rising sea level are threatening to annihilate this important Indian Ocean coastal city; a city which is strategic for landlocked countries like Zimbabwe and Zambia.
Climate Change Dries Up Nicaragua
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Apr 05 (IPS) - A three-year drought, added to massive deforestation in the past few decades, has dried up most of Nicaragua's water sources and has led to an increasingly severe water supply crisis.
Heavy Rains Once Again Scatter the Poor in Asunción
- Inter Press Service
ASUNCION, Apr 01 (IPS) - Néstor Colman, 69, remembers the river overflowing its banks nine times in Bañado Sur, the poor neighourhood in the Paraguayan capital where he was born and has lived all his life. "A record," he jokes.
Corruption Swallows a Huge Dose of Water
- Inter Press Service
MOMBASA, Kenya, Mar 22 (IPS) - While the United Nations marked this year's World Water Day on March 22 focusing on the connection between water and jobs, a new report has rung loud alarm bells about the heavy impact of corruption on the massive investments being made in the water sector.
Three International Days in a Week, But Is Anybody Listening?
- Inter Press Service
BONN, Germany, Mar 22 (IPS) - For three consecutive days this week, we gave thought to our future. On International Forests Day, Monday, 21 March, we were reminded that forests are vital for our future water needs. On Tuesday, 22 March, World Water Day, we learned that half the world's workers are involved in the water sector and some 2 billion people, especially women and girls, still need access to improved sanitation. World Meteorological Day, on Wednesday, 23 March, concluded with the warning of a hotter, drier and wetter future. A reality that is already evident and frightening, as productive land turns to sand or dust.
Water Crisis in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Mar 22 (IPS) - A narrow dirty trail snakes through what used to be a small dam in Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme south of the eastern border city of Mutare. And what remains of this once perennial dam is just a small puddle of mudded water; the dirty water is completely covered with thick green algae.
Forests Help Quench Urban Thirst
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 21 (IPS) - The next time you turn on the tap to fill the kettle, you might want to spare a thought for the forest that made it possible. It may be a hundred kilometres away or more from where you are sitting, but the chances are that you owe your cup of tea, in part at least, to the trees that helped to capture the water, and to filter it on its long journey to you the consumer.
World Water Day: Water Scarcity Is a Clear and Present Danger
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 21 (IPS) - Water scarcity is already a clear and present danger, and it is the innocent, particularly women and children, who are harmed most. When we are inundated with information about water it's easy to become desensitized. World Water Day on March 22nd gives us an opportunity to reflect on the one simple truth: water is life.
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