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  1. TANZANIA: British water company sues impoverished country

    British water company Biwater has taken legal action against the Tanzanian government after the ... company was kicked out of Tanzania earlier this year, two years into a US$100 million water privatisation ... that were part of the privatisation deal, and water delivery has deteriorated. On December 1, World ...

  2. PALESTINE: Closing the circle of our ghettoisation

    territory and provides access to the water reserves of the River Jordan. The hilltops yield control over ... water wells were stolen, and 20 shelters used for around 22,000 sheep and 500 camels were destroyed. ... denied access to infrastructure for water and electricity. In addition, villagers resist regular ...

  3. BOLIVIA: Whoever wins, El Alto will fight

    potable water or electricity, and 80% live on dirt roads." In El Alto today, 45% of the population ... Water, Basic Services and Life, which FEJUVE and the Coalition in Defence of Water and Life from ... January forced out the French multinational Suez, which had bought out the city's water supply ...

  4. ZIMBABWE: Four days inside Mugabe's prisons

    for raising banners demanding food and water. The following is my testimony. * * * The demonstration ... detained from Tuesday evening to Friday evening. Chitungwiza hasn't had running water for three ... months. So we were detained at a place that had no water and no working toilets. We were packed in tiny ...

  5. Beware the road to tyranny

    saying that the federal government will not water down its anti-terrorism bill, and has no plans to scrap ... border protection zone, in international waters to the south of the Sunda Strait. I do not know whether ...

  6. BOLIVIA: Oscar Olivera: 'We are preparing ourselves for something big'

    in Bolivia and internationally for his role as a leader of the Coalition in Defence of Water in the ... heroic victory of the people of Cochabamba against the privatisation of their water supply in 2000. ...

  7. Venezuela- this is what revolution looks like

    all their lives for the things we take for granted — running water, electricity and a local doctor, to ...

  8. Football champions battle racism

    brought up, they lived in a shack with no water and no electricity. Financial adversity confined their ...

  9. CANADA: Kyoto- all talk, no action

    events and increasing temperatures on the ability of peoples across the world to attain food and water ...

  10. Solving our greatest environmental threat

    trust in the market. If more of us bought solar hot water systems and a Toyota Prius (with its hybrid ...

  11. Following them home

    desert and water cannons and tear gas and 'management'? and how do you convey that you spent ...

  12. Hurricane havoc: Is global warming to blame?

    5 hurricane, with wind speeds of 280 kph, as it picked up force from the hot Gulf of Mexico waters. At 902 ...