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Biochar — menace or benefit?
water and fertiliser. As a result, food production would shrink. An array of economic pressures would ... Land and Water scientist, Evelyn Krull, points out that biochar "has a chemical structure that ... this process consist almost entirely of water vapour and carbon dioxide. The small amounts of nitrogen ...
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Is population the problem?
however, Gillard makes a point of emphasising the impact that population growth has had on water ... availability. She ignores the fact that households used only 11% of all water consumed in Australia in 2004/05, ... despite the data coming from the federal government’s National Water Commission. Countries with much ...
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BOLIVIA: Neoliberal era about to end?
foreign-owned companies of the country's natural resources such as water and natural gas (the second ... Olivera, leader of the Coordinator of the Defence of Water and Life in Bolivia, the coalition that led the ... water revolt of 2000 commented to GLW: "The May-June events were a clear demonstration in this ...
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UNITED STATES: Barbarism and socialism
apartment, counseling us to fill the bathtub with water, tape the windows, unplug all electrical items, get ... usually schools. Every shelter is stocked with food, water and medical supplies. There are even plans for ... become water under the bridge in a few days because the meteorological giant ran into a human ...
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UNITED STATES: New Orleans: Barbarity of US capitalism exposed
ground as the prisons went under the waters — every one of which I saw was black; of the black parents ... over dead in their wheelchairs; and dead black children, who didn't receive food, water or ... into stores to get food and bottled water. Some also grabbed things poor people had been deprived of, ...
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Controversy over Venezuelan mine killings
beautiful area has become an environmental disaster: Illegal mines have caused deforestation in the water ... stretches of the rivers, making the water undrinkable for communities that live alongside the Caroni and ... non-Venezuelan, make huge fortunes by renting water pumps and sand-blasting equipment to individual miners, who do ...
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What would it take to make poverty history?
biggest killer of children is preventable diseases caused by lack of clean water. The G20's solution ... — the privatisation of water supplies for the benefit of Western multinationals — will decrease access ... to clean water. The term "free market" is deceptive. Freedom for multinationals to exploit ...
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Mision Vuelvan Caras- changing lives in Venezuela
few agro-chemicals, the least possible. "In one area, there is a problem with the lack of water ... , and in another area there is plenty of water. They call it 'Ojos de agua' [springs]. ... there is strength. "The major problems they face are the lack of water, and the bad state of the ...
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Why Tamils flee Sri Lanka
island's Tamil minority, in Australian waters near Christmas Island highlights the situation of war and ... of Tamils have fled to India. However the waters between India and Sri Lanka are heavily patrolled by ... the Sri Lankan Navy, and many boats have been sunk in these waters. Hence it is not surprising that ...
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Imagine: a real alternative energy plan
essential water and sewage pumping could be pumped off peak using wind power. Similarly, water could be ... water has obvious uses and the hydrogen can be blended with natural gas to run the gas-fired power ...
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Cuba: Fighting capitalism's climate crisis
water. Cuba has put in place a conservation system that starts at house level and continues to the public ... was accumulating organic waste from four large slaughterhouses that were contaminating the water. To ... piping to stop leaks and save water, to the South Coast Project, which is cleaning up the environment ...
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South Africa: The 'Zumafication' of left politics in the Alliance
SACP Congress on water cut-offs, pre-paid water meters and the provision of adequate water for the ...
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Bolivia: Right-wing violence as draft constitution approved
Rosalio Tinta is an indigenous activist involved with the Coalition in Defence of Life and Water, which ... lead a successful uprising against water privatisation in 2000, spoke to Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly about the ... then defending water [from privatisation]. He is a leader of the social movements, and is therefore ...
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Australia\'s hidden empire
sanitation, running water, rubbish collection, decent housing and decent health. This is typical. In the ... Aboriginal community of Mulga Bore, the water fountains in the school have run dry and the only water left is ...
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PALESTINE: The one-family bantustan in Mas'ha
farm in Azzun Atma. "I bought 3000 chickens, water tanks, an electricity generator, and paid for ... the water tank, solar panels and windows with rocks. The Amer children have been stoned several times ... the importance of water to farmers, he would agree if they want to replace him. Thus, Hani, Munira and ...
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VENEZUELA: US finances coup conspiracy
vaccination campaign lowered the infant mortality rate. Three million people received potable water for the ... meals a day in schools and the provision of clean water to 2 million people for the first time, have ... worker families not only have land, but new homes, running water and electricity for the first time. ...
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Progressive candidates assess WA election
WA's water crisis, had an impact. According to Watson, this "tended to polarise things, especially ... Perhaps we could have made some clearer points about solutions to the water shortage issue, but again the ... seriously put in place targets for sustainability in areas such as energy, land degradation and water ...
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Write On: Letters to the Editor
resource. Future generations will not have oil, soil, air or water of suitable accessibility and quality. ... water-solar-hydrogen-water, etc, etc. If the economics does not support the reality change the economics! Nuclear energy and ...
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UNITED STATES: Hawaii protests ADB
population. The second dominant issue was the Samut Prakarn waste water treatment plant being built in the ... Klong Dan province of Thailand, which will collect waste water from a large industrial district ... [Villagers acknowledge that something needs to be done to address the problem of the waste water — the plant ...
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QUEBEC: Police brutality provokes mass anger
the warm greeting extended from local residents, offering water, bathrooms, food and shelter, and, as ... with heavy gassing going on outside, no access to restrooms and little or no access to food and water ... , and male detainees being stripped naked and sprayed with cold water. A number of pre-emptive arrests ...
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Aussie cops implicated in refugee drownings
lucky ones. The rest went on. The next day the engine failed, in international waters about 60 nautical ... Water poured in. The waterlogged boat overturned and broke up. Of the 397 passengers on board, 353 ... back to Indonesian waters. Indonesia also finally agreed to co-host an international anti-people ...
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SOUTH AFRICA: COSATU: from independence to subordination
of basic services such as water, electricity, health, housing and education; the socialisation of the ... a watered-down resolution on COSATU's engagement with the emerging progressive social movements simply ... evictions, water and electricity cut-offs and for access to anti-AIDS medicines — is a result of the ANC ...
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IRELAND: Socialists jailed in bin tax battle
services through their income tax. If the bin tax can be introduced, taxes on water and sewerage are likely ... successful campaign against water charges in Dublin between 1994 and 1997. During that period, residents ... that deals with failure to pay debts. The water charges were eventually abolished throughout the ...
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The Poors of Chatsworth: South Africa's undeclared war on the poor
As early as July 1994, eviction notices were served on 950 tenants who were in arrears. Water and ... insisting that electricity and water cut-offs and evictions be visited on the poor". She found that the ... 23,786 households had had their water cut off by the Durban City Council. In Chatsworth, cut-offs were no ...
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Repression escalates as Shell returns to Ogoniland
massive sum will be spent on opening new oil fields in the Niger delta and the waters off-shore. Blind eye ... 6 million people who live in the region remain desperately poor. There is no electricity, no running water ... of the world's largest and most profitable companies. Drinking water in the delta contains ...