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1. Buffalo Music: benefit for East Timor

   will help poor East Timorese buy water buffaloes to plough fields for crops of rice, the staple food. ... Water buffalo herds have been decimated by war and hunger. The concert will be broadcast live on the ...

2. Breast cancer and pesticides

   particularly vulnerable to ground water contamination. Because ground water provides a large portion of ... Hawaii's population with drinking water, the study argues that people living in Hawaii may have experienced ... ground water contamination and human exposure. For instance, in Oahu, growers regularly fumigated ...

3. When Morning Breaks

   came to take me back We danced in canopies of trees That shake the water from their backs We slept in ... sleepy villages above the ground They say our water is not safe And yet, how else to quench this thirst ...

4. UN sanctions compound Iraqi devastation

   that access to safe water is diminishing rapidly. UNICEF, which is trying to create a social and ... water. In 1991, 15 people out of 16 lacked access to safe water. Another UN body, the Economic and Social ... power stations has also aggravated environmental problems concerning water quality and soil salinity ...

5. Anning’s censure makes playing race card harder

   burqa stunt in parliament in 2017 and then-attorney general George Brandis’ call in 2014 to water down ...

6. 10 new political albums from all over the world

   Waters, who pointed out that the Red Cross and United Nations were already providing aid in Venezuela and ... had warned Trump not to "politicise aid". On February 22, Waters' fellow ... "victory"- found on his latest album. The book came a month after Waters chartered a jet to rescue two ...

7. Hundreds unite against drilling in Great Australian Bight

   waters of the Great Australian Bight. The same day, Kangaroo Island mayor Peter Clements spoke at ... around the world who are fighting to protect their Country, livelihoods, and water from dangerous oil ... marine environment, with 85% of its marine species found only in these waters. The Bight is a haven for ...

8. Locals take a stand against CSG in Ingleburn

   Sydney's water catchments, threatening the viability of Sydney's water supply. The meeting was also ... extraction in water catchments if elected. Challenged about continued coal mining in catchments, however, ... in sensitive water catchment areas. The meeting was organised by Stop CSG Macarthur along with Stop ...

9. �鶹��ý TV: Perth protest says stop the Super Trawler

   Margiris, one of the world's biggest fishing trawlers, from fishing in Australian waters. For more ...

10. Baillieu’s coal seam gas moratorium does not go far enough

    from the coal seam. These chemicals can leak from the seam or drill holes into land and ground water ... water.” Friends of the Earth campaigns coordinator Cam Walker said: “Coal seam gas mining can produce vast ... amounts of contaminated waste water, which thus far appears to be inadequately managed. In addition, ...

11. BHP Billiton plans desalination 'Dead Sea'

    work is starting on the desalination plant that is to supply fresh water for BHP Billiton's ... would provide water to local users in the Upper Spencer Gulf and Eyre Peninsula regions as well as to ... Australian Water Fund. These pledges have created consternation among observers, since projections in 2006 ...

12. SOUTH AFRICA: Clashes at union protest

    after 2000 workers marched through the city against the privatisation of water and electricity. One man ...

13. Cuba night in Brisbane

    a water tank project in El Salvador. Latin American solidarity activist Rafael Pacheco (pictured) spoke. ...

14. Beverley uranium mine approved

    mine. The technique involves dissolving uranium into ground water by pumping sulphuric acid and oxygen ... underground. The mix is then brought to the surface, the uranium extracted and waste water injected back into ... concerns that radioactive water could leak from the Beverley aquifer into surrounding ground water ...

15. Sewage flows into Sydney Harbour

    handled by existing sewage-treatment works. Nearly all waters in Sydney receive sewage from sewage ... ground for toxic waste. A recent Sydney Morning Herald report revealed a Water Board plan to dump ... chemicals from Bondi and other treatment plants. The Water Board had ordered excessive quantities of ferric ...

16. Large Stars Looking Small

    And who can stand under the raindrop become the water drip, the white torrent nothing resists when the ...

17. Rally and march marks 9th anniversary of SIEV X tragedy

    19, 2001. The boat was under Australian surveillance but was allowed to sink in international waters ...

18. Israel attacks new Freedom Flotilla seeking to aid Gaza

    Al Awda  (The Return) as she was in international waters.” Israeli soldiers beat passengers and used ... commandos  boarded and seized several boats  in international waters as they tried to reach Gaza. “Israeli ...

19. CFMEU imposes green ban on Pyrmont site

    former Water Police site at Pyrmont's Elizabeth MacArthur Bay. "We don't want to see Hong ... middle-class retirees and well-heeled business executives. The former Water Police site is under the control of ... group's call for the former Water Police site to become a public park. [For more information on the ...

20. NSW Not 4 Sale

    struggling without water, resources, jobs, education and any hope of ever achieving any sort of equality. And ...

21. The hell that was British India

    adequate food, shelter or water, and remaining water tanks were choked with rotting corpses and the fields ...

22. Hundreds rally, march against coalmine at Jondaryan

    shock jock Alan Jones, maverick federal MP Bob Katter, Greens Senator Larissa Waters and local farmers. ... as things like heavy metals." Waters said: “We are behind the community on both the coal and ... coalmine. They chanted, “our land, our water, our future” and “don’t wait, lock the gate”. Australia ...

23. Death of a dairy cooperative — Part 4

    factory farming projects. As the Murray Darling Basin Plan takes water from irrigators, corporate water ... Nationals. Irrigated dairy farmers have been the biggest losers in the cuts to water licences across the ... southern basin under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, which is making water scarcer, less reliable and dearer ...

24. Venezuela creates ecosocialist ministry

    and Water, which will be tasked with protecting the environment in the context of Venezuela's bid ... to build “21st century socialism”. The new body will supervise the National Water Plan, designed to ... ensure public access to water, as well as the Tree Mission, which involves the community in reforestation ...

25. Radioactive Exposure Tour arrives in Dubbo

    concerns and were raised over contamination of drinking water from the tailings dam. The mine is upstream ... of Dubbo's water supply, near a creek that flows into the Macquarie River. Other concerns ... acid and caustic soda; the mine’s water usage; leaving toxic waste for future generation to deal with; ...

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