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  1. The human right to water and sanitation

    a Bolivian resolution to make water and sanitation a human right. No country voted against the resolution, ... presentation of this resolution by recalling that human beings are essentially water. About two thirds of our ... organism is comprised of water. Some 75% of our brain is made up of water, and water is the principal ...

  2. Australia joins 40 nations who won鈥檛 back water rights

    abstained in the July 28 UN General Assembly vote on Bolivia鈥檚 resolution to recognise access to water and ... opponents of access to water, but many made statements that revealed their hostility to the very idea of ... recognising water as a human right. Australia 鈥渉ad reservations about declaring new human rights in a General ...

  3. Poisoning of Gaza water puts population at risk

    estimates Monther Shoblak, director general of the Coastal Municipality Water Utility (CMWU). In some areas, ... poisoned. Ninety percent of the water available in Gaza from its only source 鈥 the coastal aquifer 鈥 is ... Palestinians in Gaza, Monther and his staff at the Coastal Municipalities Water Utilities are forced to ...

  4. Floods devastate Pakistan, government adandons people

    than 20 million people had been affected by the floods in Pakistan. Waters remained at dangerous levels ... Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa and Southern Punjab, the water has now washed down the Indus River Valley, causing a deluge in ... Sindh. The water has been powered by unusually fierce monsoon rains that began in the country鈥檚 northern ...

  5. Pakistan: A town completely destroyed

    people told how water more than 14 feet (4.27 metres) high reached the town鈥檚 rooftops. The flood came ... government for failing to warn them in time about the danger of the flood. Some also alleged that water was ... providing some food. There is still water all over Pir Sabaq. A bad smell is everywhere and no clean ...

  6. Coal expansion opposed

    leader John-Paul Langbroek from the organising coalition said: 鈥淥ur land, our water and our future are ...

  7. Ecocide and consumption: a case study

    water-filtration systems in Israel. That鈥檚 in addition to his luxurious duplex apartment on Park Avenue in New York ... contamination 鈥 [including] arsenic, chromium, mercury, copper, and zinc; acidic waste water; chlorinated ... hydrocarbons (PAHs).鈥 Waste-water ditches around MagCorp鈥檚 plant were reported to be contaminated with dioxin ...

  8. Russia, Pakistan show need for climate action

    villages. Thousands of hectares of crops have been destroyed due to flood water. Livestock, household goods, ... clothes, shoes and other items have been destroyed. Residents of villages are without drinkable water ... desperate need of food and clothing. Disease is spreading fast due to the lack of drinkable water. Flu, ...

  9. Rallies for equal marriage rights

    It was the biggest protest for equal marriage rights so far. The crowd threw water bombs at cardboard ...

  10. Huge crowd at energy plan launch

    water recycling and conservation, and automated waste processes. He also endorsed the 100% renewables ...

  11. Venezuela's process of struggle

    from some fancy hotel, the brigade endured the energy crisis and water shortages in the capital along ... now working with the state to obtain durable building materials and access to potable water. 鈥淭he old ...

  12. Amnesty blasts Indigenous policies

    they've got toilet blockage, the water doesn't go down the drain in the shower, it runs out ...

  13. Big companies should open their books

    on super-profits of mining corporations, since watered down by Gillard, reveals the logic. The ...

  14. Gillard plans for education counter-revolution

    watered down by the employment of such poorly trained 鈥減rofessionals鈥. 鈥淭he skills required to teach ...

  15. Bolivia: Social tensions erupt

    exploded, beginning with the opposition to water privatisation in Cochabamba and uprisings in support of ...