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1. WikiLeaks Bolivia cables: US admits 'economic roots of social revolution'

   view access to such services as water, gas, and electricity as a right that the political and social ... and still largely unresolved mix". Beginning “with the infamous Cochabamba ‘water wars’ of May ... (April) 2000”, where protesters forced the government to reverse the privatisation of Cochabamba’s water ...

2. Peter Watts: Uranium should stay in the ground

   is called Olympic Dam and it uses 33 million litres of ground water per day, for free. The water is ... Australia. But the uranium mine poisons the water, land and life through releasing radiation. When the triple ...

3. Neither Labor nor Liberal deserve to run WA

   possible, every new house built or renovated must install solar hot water and voltaic cells (Leichhardt in ... industry. •Retrofit all government buildings to maximise water collection, electricity production and solar ... hot water production. •Reject the Liberals' insane plans for nuclear power! No new coal-burning ...

4. Gaza's death throes, and no one's listening

   rights — that is, the right to food, water, shelter, security and dignity? What kind of government ... enter or leave without permission, fishermen cannot fish in their own waters, and world food aid cannot ... be delivered to the starving population? What kind of government shuts off fuel, water and ...

5. Health services in Gaza — a firsthand account

   accessing materials from outside Gaza, access to clean water within Gaza is also a problem. The water ... clean running water, resulting in an increase of unnecessary, preventable diseases. Receiving donations ...

6. A spectre haunts imperialism

   strengthens their rights over land, water and natural resources, and introduces some land reforms. These ... like India: policies of state-sponsored grabs of land and water, if necessary killing indigenous people ... and agrarian poor who stand in the way; privatisation of resources like water; and reversal of poorly ...

7. G20's pledges will worsen crisis for the poor

   privatisation of basic social infrastructure (including water), enforcement of intellectual property rights and ... more than 4 million people each year. The privatisation of water infrastructure makes safe drinking ... water and adequate sanitation unaffordable to the Third World poor, which is a major factor contributing ...

8. Hunger strikes, rallies against genocide in Sri Lanka

   began to worsen rapidly. After 106 hours without food or water Thanbalasingam was rushed to Canberra ... strikers from Sydney took their first sip of water late on April 15. Thanbalasingam explained he only ... decided to drink water because "people kept telling me I have to be alive and well to tell the ...

9. The human cost of climate change

   swallow towns and cities, small surges of sea levels will push salt water into aquifers, destroying ... supplies of safe drinking water. By 2030, 50% of the world's population will live in areas of high ... water stress or drought. Peasant farmers and fisher people are seeing their source of income and ...

10. Israel detains human rights activists, threaten deportation

    international waters on June 30 as their boat, The Spirit of Humanity, tried to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza. ... law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza ... times. The badly damaged boat was forced to limp to a Lebanese port as it began to take water ...

11. Climate change threatens more hunger

    weather patterns, water scarcity, the spread of damaging insects and pests to new areas and land ... from water-fed agriculture in Africa could be down by 50%." Wheat production in south Asia's ... mean no water for irrigation for about half of Asia's total cereal production by 2050. The region ...

12. No room at the inn

    inundations by sea water at high tide. A recent TV newsclip showed villagers waist deep in water, reaching ... time. In southern Iraq, 2 million people have just about run out of water as the Tigris and Euphrates ...

13. NSW Climate Camp speaks louder than words

    "When it comes to water, climate and jobs — actions speak louder than words". Climate Camp ... reservoir, a key water source for south Sydney and the Illawarra. Climate Camp called for the mine expansion ... to be halted given the clear threat to drinking water and the pressing need to phase out coal-use to ...

14. Rudd's renewable policy not working

    under federal government legislation, RECs are also given to solar hot water and heat pump installations ... extra certificates "phantom RECs". Garner told GLW that "solar hot water is not adding ... (RET), along with solar hot water and heat pump installations. This would benefit wind power he said, the ...

15. Dire situation for Tamil refugees

    abandoned us and the food is being delivered by the navy", said Kuhendrarajah. "Water was cut ... we have no way of preparing hot water has brought severe difficulties for the parents of children who ... generators. We also require either gas or kerosene or another form of making hot water. "We do have a gas ...

16. Bhopal disaster 25 years on — bring corporate killers to justice

    "More than 20,000 people have been forced to drink water contaminated with toxins like mercury, ... Indian government also "promised to build pipelines to bring clean water to the communities that ... have been drinking, eating, and washing with water contaminated by the chemicals that Union Carbide ...

17. John Pilger: The kidnapping of Haiti

    watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US air force dropped bottled water to people suffering ... fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until ...

18. Niger's uranium coup

    January 14 that the "use of non-renewable water sources for … underground mines and … leakages of ... radioactive matter, including the contamination of water, air and soil; the use of lethal radioactive scrap ... died." He said that water in the region had 10 times the level of radioactivity considered safe. ...

19. Secrets and lies of the nuke industry

    uranium mining company a special deal on water where it could take- for free- up to 42 million litres of ... water a day from the Great Artesian Basin. We visited some of the mound springs, oases with unique flora ... water take has adversely affected some of these mound springs and destroyed some others. Then we walked ...

20. "We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them"

    water must be diverted from the Palestinians. For settlers to commute to work in Israel without having ... overcrowding. Their water pipes cause water shortages. The bypass roads increase the distance between people. ...

21. PALESTINE: The forgotten war in Gaza

    assault many water wells remain inaccessible and hospitals are running low on water. A July 18 situation ... due to shortages of electricity and water, caused by the June 28 bombing by the Israeli Air Force of ...

22. Imagining sustainable cities

    adjacent catchment areas for its water supply and must carefully maintain and protect of them. Much of our ... areas and levels of society. We have started looking at our buildings in terms of energy and water ... includes rainwater harvesting and purification and onsite sewage treatment with recycled water being fed ...

23. Coal- leave it in the ground

    coalmining as a designated priority water user is continuing with business as usual while potentially ... sustainable industries such as dairying, cropping, viticulture and horse studs are having their water ... most implicated in climate chaos in eastern Australia is given priority status for water during ...

24. A different planet from the one we know

    become irreversible". Stern includes the consequences of a 2°C rise as: a 20-30% decrease in water ... salt water of the aquifers used by cities such as Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Kolkata, Mumbai, ... cause catastrophic water shortages across most of south America, and will turn the Amazon from being one ...

25. HCNG: An alternative to coal and oil?

    nitrous oxide emissions by around 50%). Hydrogen combines with oxygen when burnt, creating water vapour ... the electricity supply grid. Creating hydrogen from water by electrolysis uses enormous amounts of ... combination with water. On its own, hydrogen is not an immensely practical fuel, requiring sophisticated and ...

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