News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 95
Tanzania’s Costal Communities Forced to Drink Seawater
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 22 (IPS) - The freshwater drinking supply of the coastal town of Pangani in northeast Tanzania is becoming increasingly contaminated as salt water steadily seeps in from the Indian Ocean.
The United States of Drought
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (IPS) - As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.
Conflicts Over Water Rise in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
PANGANI, Tanzania, Oct 18 (IPS) - Conflicts over water are increasing in the sprawling Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania as farmers and herders jostle for dwindling water resources in the face of climate change.
When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
- Inter Press Service
No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 15 (IPS) - Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world's oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday.
Chevron Fights Amazon Pollution Verdict in U.S. Court
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 15 (IPS) - Two years after they were awarded 18 billion dollars by an Ecuadorian court for environmental damage caused by Chevron in the Amazonian rainforest, a group of indigenous villagers and their U.S. lawyer went on trial Tuesday in New York, accused by the oil company of bribery and racketeering.
U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered Species
- Inter Press Service
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Oct 15 (IPS) - The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer.
Conserve Water or Perish, Warns U.N. Chief
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 (IPS) - Just 17 years from now, nearly half the global population could be facing water scarcity, with demand outstripping supply by 40 percent.
Argentina Blindly Exploiting Groundwater, Scientists Warn
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10 (IPS) - Half of Argentina is supplied with water by invisible underground aquifers, which are crucial in the country's arid and semi-arid regions, experts say. But Tierramérica discovered that nobody – not even the government – has any accurate scientific data on these groundwater reserves.
The Coming Plague
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 (IPS) - A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world's tropical regions.
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