News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 91
A Nation Chewing Itself to Death
- Inter Press Service
SANAA, Jan 31 (IPS) - The Yemeni capital of Sanaa is reputed to be over 2,500 years old, making it one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. But it is living on borrowed time.
Nile Delta Disappearing Beneath the Sea
- Inter Press Service
EL RASHID, Egypt, Jan 29 (IPS) - It only takes a light covering of seawater to render land infertile, so Mohamed Saeed keeps a close watch on the sea as it advances year after year towards his two-hectare plot of land. The young farmer, whose clover field lies just 400 metres from Egypt's northern coast, reckons he has less than a decade before his field – and livelihood – submerges beneath the sea.
Dammed Rivers Create Hardship for Brazil’s Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
FOZ DO IGUAÇU/PAULO AFONSO, Brazil, Jan 22 (IPS) - The Itaparica hydroelectric power plant occupied land belonging to the Pankararu indigenous people, but while others were compensated, they were not. They have lost land and access to the São Francisco river, charge native leaders in Paulo Afonso, a city in northeastern Brazil.
Voluntary Fracking Certification Kicks Off in U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (IPS) - A controversial new certification process that could cover a significant portion of the U.S. oil-and-gas "fracking" industry began accepting applications on Tuesday, indicating the formal start of an initiative that has the backing of some key industry players and some environmentalists – but by no means all of either.
Alto Maipo Project Endangers Santiago's Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 21 (IPS) - A hydroelectric project under construction near the Chilean capital poses a threat to the supply of drinking water to more than six million people living in the Santiago Metropolitan Region.
Caribbean Sees Worrying Rise in Climate-Sensitive Diseases
- Inter Press Service
ROSEAU, Dominica, Jan 20 (IPS) - Caribbean countries, struggling to emerge from a slump in exports and falling tourist arrivals brought on by the worldwide economic crisis that began five years ago, have one more thing to worry about in 2014.
Development Follows Devastation from Brazilian Dam
- Inter Press Service
PETROLANDIA, Brazil, Jan 13 (IPS) - Valdenor de Melo has been waiting for 27 years for the land and cash compensation he is due because his old farm was left underwater when the Itaparica hydroelectric dam was built on the São Francisco river in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast.
Four Years Later, USAID Funds in Haiti Still Unaccounted For
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (IPS) - As the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti approaches on Jan. 12, development analysts are decrying an ongoing lack of transparency in U.S. foreign aid to the country, even as those assistance streams are drying up.
Impunity Stinks in Havana’s Quibú River
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 10 (IPS) - The stench hits as you walk through the door of one of the pleasant houses along the Quibú river in the Cuban capital’s Náutico neighbourhood. “The garbage piles up, it stinks, and there are even rats,†said MarÃa Angélica Suárez, a local resident who is tired of living this way.
Seedpods Worth More than Gold in Argentina’s Arid North
- Inter Press Service
GUANACO SOMBRIANA, Argentina, Jan 02 (IPS) - Tired of the drought driving away their men and killing their livestock, the women of Guanaco Sombriana, a town in northern Argentina, have found a new source of income by using the seedpods of native trees that up to now merely provided shade in this arid landscape.
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