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  1. Aborigines first victims of rural crisis

    services was needed to help achieve minimum living standards. Water supply ranged from poor to totally ... inadequate. In the Bourke region, some settlements relied soley on untreated river water. Most communities had ... Sewage, water, access roads, garbage disposal and health and building inspections are services paid for by ...

  2. Write on

    Philippines, where denuded mountains affect the flow of water in the rivers, causing floods during rains and ... dry river beds or rivers which once ran clear having only a trickle of polluted water. In areas, such ... the amount of rice and vegetables planted because of shortage of water. Fishermen in coastal villages ...

  3. What the Gulf peace team saw

    found the Al Rasheed Hotel to be without water or electricity and with staff working by torchlight. The ... like water and electricity facilities. Jack explained that "accurate bombing" meant that ... addition, he pointed out that water and electricity supplies are also civilian targets and that their ...

  4. Cuba goes green

    outlying areas, cutting down on air pollution. Sewer water is to be drained off into remote ponds, where it ... will be converted into fertiliser, and the clean water pumped back to provide duck ponds in community ... areas are good. Air befouled by carbon monoxide and other chemical contaminants and waters polluted by ...

  5. Germany: Everyone's 'green', but problems mount

    Switzerland caused tonnes of highly toxic pesticides to pour into its waters. Pressure by environmental ... you found salmon in its waters, I suspect it would be one that had lost its way. It is still not an ... directly into the Elbe River. Prior to East Germany's annexation by West Germany, the Elbe waters ...

  6. Columbus and the conquest of the Americas

    use scarce water to irrigate large extensions of land along steep slopes. Llamas were used for ... transformation, since the element accumulates in animal and plant tissue. Fish caught in waters laden with mercury ... river water even in areas far from the mines that the plants they supported mutated over time." ...

  7. Campaign needed against forced resettlement

    reservoir, even as the waters poured in. Eight people drowned in the ensuing chaos. Today, over a year later, ... million Chinese have been relocated because of water management projects. According to China's ... Ministry of Water Resources, more than a third of these people are still impoverished. The World Bank is ...

  8. Greenpeace takes on Czech environmental disaster

    and water. "There are times during the winter when you really can't breathe", says ... just to stay; and of course the water is heavily polluted after 40 years of industrialism without any ... the country's water supply. A cloud of smog hung over the region between February 9 and 15, ...

  9. Australia鈥檚 鈥榞as shortage鈥 is a fiction

    they can afford to pay to replace hot water, heating and cooking appliances. Transition to renewables ...

  10. Climate change: When scientists become revolutionaries

    Climate crisis Renfrey Clarke Kevin Anderson, professor of energy and climate change at Manchester University, said on October 29 last year: 鈥淭oday, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2掳C budget demands revolutionary change to the politica ...

  11. 麻豆传媒 TV: Help make it a reality

    Media Click here to make a donation online. Keep reading to find out how your financial support will help us, and what you will receive in return. For 20 years 麻豆传媒 Weekly has been bringing you the news that the mainstream media won鈥檛. Australia has ...

  12. Chomsky raises alarm, pushes justice

    Imperialism & war Economy Phil Orchard Hopes & Prospects By Noam Chomsky Haymarket Books, 2010 US$16 www.hopesandprospects.org Noam Chomsky requires little by way of introduction. Eminent professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusett ...

  13. US bases in Australia a setback for peace

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis The increased US military presence in Australia, announced by PM Julia Gillard and US President Barack Obama during Obama鈥檚 November 16-17 visit, is a setback for peace. Australia should be closing existing US military bas ...

  14. Burma: By-election win shows desire for change

    parliament. Kawhmu is a small, rural farming town with no paved roads, electricity or running water. It is ... without running water or electricity, and are harshly oppressed under a totalitarian government, wherever ...

  15. Paying rent sucks

    a job as well as study just to keep their nose above water. On top of all this, 100,000 Australians are ...

  16. Growth machine is a capital problem

    gases. The oceans are dying, species are dying out at unprecedented rates, water is running short, and ...

  17. Japan: Scale of nuclear disaster, cover-up exposed

    vulnerability of these pools and pointed out that if somebody or something were to cause the water to drain, it ...

  18. BP Great Australian Bight oil spill would affect whole southern coast of Australia

    company鈥檚 long-term future and walks away. 鈥淭he Bight鈥檚 pristine waters are home to 36 species of whales and ...

  19. Bolivian President Evo Morales to UN: 鈥楴o imperialist walls, eradicate capitalism!鈥

    constructing walls and borders everywhere, he continued, 鈥渋n the water, on land and in the air鈥. To counter ...

  20. Syria: Amid terror, blockades, autonomous democratic federation struggles to meet refugee needs

    聽 Syria May 13, 2017 1137 A YPG fighter gives water to a young refugee. World ...

  21. Ecuador: Correa vows to 鈥榬adicalise revolution鈥

    Democracy Duroyan Fertl In the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on September 30, left-wing Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has vowed to deepen his 鈥渃itizen鈥檚 revolution鈥 in the small Andean country. After the coup attempt by 麻豆传媒 of the police an ...

  22. Alice solutions staring them in the face

    Anti-racism Larissa Behrendt Alice Springs is a town unlike any other and to an outsider its racial tensions are noticeable. Walking through the shopping centre one sees security guards tell Aboriginal people to move on when they are window shopping. Pove ...

  23. Locals outraged as Newcastle city council destroys iconic figs

    Environment Debbi Long Muloobinba/Newcastle The trees are coming down. Against a backdrop of grey skies and at times torrential rain, to a soundtrack of chainsaw, wood chipper and howls of protest and grief from anguished residents and exhausted protester ...

  24. Leave uranium in the ground

    Radioactive water, rice and cattle have been found far from the crippled reactors. Fukushima has caused people ...

  25. UN urges ban on sending children to Manus Island

    areas were extremely muddy and in some places there were large amounts of standing water.鈥 An ...

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