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  1. Fijian women oppose water privatisation

    The Fiji Women's Rights Movement is protesting the March 13 promulgation of the Water ... will provide more "effective management" of water, including "opportunities for ... competition in the provision of water" and facilitating the "corporatisation of the Water Authority ...

  2. Gunns pulp mill to be fast-tracked

    protest pointed out that the pulp mill would have "devastating water supply effects". It would ... use 26 gigalitres (26,000 million litres) of water annually. According to the March 4 Launceston ... would be a colossal mistake. It would rob the people of West Tamar of their drinking water. Supplies on ...

  3. Demand justice for Bhopal survivors

    care, uncontaminated drinking water, jobs, and pensions for those who are too ill to work. Wells in ...

  4. Brutal crackdown as Zimbabwe crisis escalates

    others were arrested; police have been accused of torturing detainees. Police fired water cannons and ... have witnessed massive increases in water bills, electricity, council rates, school fees and drug costs ...

  5. NSW election: progressive choices in Newcastle

    asked if he would rejoin the party his reply was an unequivocal "No". Osborne, a water ... council has also been doing small but good things on water and energy, for example bore holes in parks and ... water, transport and developer donations." The Newcastle branch of the Socialist Alliance is ...

  6. Iraq: the biggest lie of all

    and still there is scant clean water, electricity and no suitable sewerage system. While more than ...

  7. Why Tamils flee Sri Lanka

    island's Tamil minority, in Australian waters near Christmas Island highlights the situation of war and ... of Tamils have fled to India. However the waters between India and Sri Lanka are heavily patrolled by ... the Sri Lankan Navy, and many boats have been sunk in these waters. Hence it is not surprising that ...

  8. Global warming refugees- left to drown?

    water scarcity to 1.1-3.2 billion people by the end of the century; an additional 200-600 million people ... gardens and contaminated fresh water supplies. The plight of the Carteret islanders "brings home the ...

  9. Global warming refugees — left to drown?

    water scarcity to 1.1-3.2 billion people by the end of the century; an additional 200-600 million people ... vegetable gardens and contaminated fresh water supplies. The plight of the Carteret islanders "brings ...

  10. Union leaders discuss how to stop Howard and Work Choices

    as the Greens'. Any watering down of [Labor's policy] and workers will say, ...

  11. Letters to the Editor

    Melbourne's water supply, and in the severity of some recent tropical cyclones (George, Jacob, and the two ...