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  1. SOUTH AFRICA: Welcome to the 'new' Johannesburg

    most South Africans still rely upon untreated water. There has been virtually no installation of ... having their piped water cut off. For the 17 years before, water had been supplied free by the apartheid ... formal townships, and cut-offs of municipal services like water and electricity. Contributing to the ...

  2. CISLAC responds to Salvadoran quakes

    to the third quake but, more importantly, international relief agencies report shortages of water ... landslides. Damage to social and productive infrastructure is enormous, with communications, water and ... water shortages caused massive price hikes in what little was available (with one litre of bottled water ...

  3. Colombia: Peace and the 'war against drugs'

    guerrillas. 'Taking the water from the fish' Consequently, the military and the US have stepped up ... their efforts of “taking the water from the fish”. This strategy has been twofold. On the one hand ... mainly subsistence farmers who had their only source of food destroyed and their water contaminated. Van ...

  4. Latin America's rising anti-globalisation movement

    By Stephen Marks In shanty towns outside Buenos Aires, the French-Argentine water company Aguas ... homes to the water mains. Privatised water companies like this arrangement as they don't have to ... the privatisation of the municipal drinking water system joined in the strike, while in Sara province ...

  5. Accord ends Ecuadoran Indian uprising

    indigenous health, education and development agencies; resolve conflicts over land, water and other natural ... Salesian Polytechnic University. The government had previously cut off water and electricity to the site ...

  6. IRAQ: US escalates 'hidden' war

    a water reservoir, homes, hospitals and schools. In 2000, 69 civilian buildings were bombed. This steady ...