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1. Fighting Ebola: Cuba shows the world how it is done

   West Point has an inadequate water service, with only four public toilets. The beach serves as the ... lavatory, provides washing and drinking water, and fish from its water are consumed. Disease is rife, with ...

2. Cyclone Lam hits Aboriginal Communities in NT who now face weeks without housing

   outstations to assess the damage. The same day, communities finally had access to safe drinking water again, ... without safe drinking water and dry bedding could have even more devastating consequences than we ... know if and when it was safe to leave the shelters or drink the water. These messages were shared, ...

3. After Cyclone Pam: Climate action is urgent

   on March 17 that in the north-western island of Moso, people were without fresh water and forced to ... drink seawater. “Drinking saltwater is damaging as the more a person drinks, the more water already ... but when you think about the volume of extra water riding on a storm surge, it's a significant ...

4. Nepal: Natural disaster brings unnatural suffering

   overcrowding, and access to piped water is difficult at the best of times. Cuts to electricity — known as load ... devastation in the villages. The prognosis for the coming weeks is grim. With water and sewage pipes burst, ... "There is great need for health care, food and water. I am coordinating to raise funds in Australia to ...

5. Secrecy hides abuse of refugees and government criminality

   smugglers to take a boat of asylum seekers away from Australian waters. But the government has continued to ... in Australian waters, on their way to New Zealand. He alleged that the six crew members were given ... government not to comment on on-water matters,” he said. Government doctrine holds all interactions between ...

6. Community cooperative points to new food system

   is that all the water used for the evaporator seals to turn tomatoes into paste was of one-time ... usage. All that water was simply going into waste treatment and then irrigation. The guys said: ‘Look, if ... we put in a recycling system we can save 35% of water usage in this factory immediately’.” Heinz ...

7. Twenty years on from Rio, we must change the system

   ecosystems provide for the conservation of biodiversity, water purification, pollination of plants, the ... include the privatisation of water, a push for agro-industrial business operations that impoverishes small ... between nations. States must guarantee the human right to water, education, health, communication, ...

8. Latin America rises up against mining giants

   want the Conga mine, saying it will damage local water supplies. A string of protests against mining ... projects have taken place in Peru in recent years. In Chile, similar concerns over water supply and quality ... increasing intense competition for water and energy, the real question now is how, institutionally, ...

9. Lessons from Manila floods on climate change, responses

   of leptospirosis, typhoid and diarrhoea due to the flood and contaminated water. The level of crisis ... and there was lack of food, water and other necessities that people need? In Barangay Olandes, ... building of dikes, water basins, barriers; modernising [the] drainage system; and dredging clogged rivers ...

10. Canada: Movement against tar sands on the rise

    sands pipelines across BC! No oil tankers in coastal waters!” read the lead banners. Two days later, ... would ply BC’s biologically rich and difficult-to-navigate coastal waters per year. In one of many ... four or five times. • The toxic ponds of waste water from tar sands production currently cover 170 ...

11. How brands sell capitalism

    bottled water does no better than tap water. Yet Coke wins in sales thanks solely to its famous logo. ... unions in Turkey and Guatemala, depleting and polluting water supplies in villages in India, and causing ...

12. Gas has worse climate footprint than coal

    “fracking” — that is, hydraulic fracturing, in which drillers inject a high-pressure mix of water, sand and ... gas releases during drilling, since an estimated 30-70% of the injected water resurfaces, bringing gas ... relatively quickly to carbon dioxide and water. Almost all of it is gone within twenty years of its release. ...

13. Palestine: Hunger strikers vow to resist occupation

    drink only water and are refusing medical treatment and any food supplements. Issawi, 33, is a political ... hunger strike and has stopped drinking water, and is resisting continuous pressure from the Israeli ... when they refused to drink water. In February, eight more Palestinian hunger strikers joined the ...

14. Carbon imperialism devastating Africa

    survived the drought, drowned livestock, displaced 200,000 people and spread water-borne diseases. NGO Save ... water. A core condition imposed on African countries by the IMF and World Bank is removing agricultural ... clean water, has fallen to little more than 40 over the past two generations.” In the 1990s, non-violent ...

15. Haiti: Aristide makes triumphant return

    sending waste and foul water into people’s tents. It’s a breeding ground for mosquitoes. It’s filled with ... to them. In fact, the Red Cross, which has been providing water to this camp, is set to cut it off ... electricity, internet, telephones or water. They’re camping out in the shell of their former home, which was ...

16. Tas forest deal comes with pulp mill catch

    a number of grounds including its location, its impacts on the marine environment, its use of fresh water ... plantations and all the problems they cause (including recent documented cases of drinking water toxity). If ... they were genuinely going to reform the industry, plantations would not be allowed in water catchments, ...

17. Capitalism: the critical environmental issue

    a number of crops have been decreased by high temperature, droughts, and floods; the drinking water for ... melting permafrost in the far north and the melting of glaciers that once provided reliable water in the ... services” — such as the role wetlands play in cleaning runoff water and providing habitat for wildlife — and ...

18. System, not consumers, the big green problem

    to turn more and more of nature into products for sale: fossil fuels, soil nutrients, fresh water ... into the sky, waste pollutants into water, and waste chemicals and toxics into the soil. In the rich ... into the water or air because that’s the most efficient way to produce plastic or wood pulp or steel. ...

19. Don't pay for a failed system

    million children to death each year due to lack of healthcare, sanitation, food and water. Ten billion ... provide basic education for the whole world, while $9 billion would provide water and sanitation, $12 ... such as water and sanitation, and the removal of food and fuel subsidies, literally means misery and ...

20. Bush is gone, now end the 'war on terror'

    water and medical assistance for the refugees are scarce. Unsurprisingly, the US strategy of expansion ... destruction of Baghdad's sewerage system. The river "water can no longer be safely drunk by humans ... or animals, the remaining fish cannot be safely eaten, and the contaminated water reportedly withers ...

21. Our Common Cause: Climate change — the danger is now

    2013-15. As the highly reflective ice is replaced by dark water, much more of the sun's heat is ... renters to use the same system. Install photovoltaic solar panels and solar hot water heaters on home ... industry to manufacture wind turbines, public transport vehicles and infrastructure, solar hot water, solar ...

22. $42 billion to stimulate profits

    hot-water service (but not both). Landlords will also receive assistance in installing insulation in rental ... spokesperson Cam Walker told �鶹��ý Weekly that he welcomed the promised insulation and solar hot water ... to install insulation and hot water systems. The underlying assumption is that the extra money and ...

23. India: Looming social and environmental disaster

    be provided with captive power plants, assured cheap water, plus dedicated infrastructure, including ... producing about 7 million tonnes of rice, will also be affected by the demand on water, ash and carbon from ... life will be contaminated by pollutants. Hussein Sagar, a huge fresh water lake in the heart of the ...

24. Sri Lanka's war on Tamils: the unknown genocide

    There is a severe lack of medical care and not enough food and drinking water", the NGO stated. Sri ... 200,000 civilians have been herded into this barren land that lacks potable water and shade. Food and ... allegiance to the LTTE. Attracted by the prize of the strategically important deep-water port of Trincomolee, ...

25. El Salvador: Left poised for election victory

    Arena would have to start by pulling back on its national water privatisation plan, signing public water ... provision agreements with the water workers' union. But then the party would be going against its own ...

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