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1. South Africa: The Neoliberal loo

   latrines and other devices to limit their consumption of water? A resounding yes was heard at the Africa ... water/sanitation infrastructure. Today, most African states are run by venal elites who don't care where their ... Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council is blunt: "The need is to take sanitation ...

2. Offsetting democracy

   European Union for drinking water, in a number of soft drinks being sold by Coca Cola in India. The ... severe water shortages for local communities and that its bottling facilities pollute the surrounding ... polluted local water supplies. In August 2007, while he sipped a can of Diet Coke in front of the ...

3. SOUTH AFRICA: Resistance to privatisation continues

   crucial water and energy sectors. Access to water and electricity has become a key struggle in South ... alongside a government research agency, found that an estimated 10 million people have suffered water ... — especially young African children — contract diarrhoea each year because they cannot afford purified water ...

4. Off course: golf in South-East Asia

   social impact posed by golf course development is consumption and disruption of water supplies. The ... construction of golf courses has destroyed forests and wetlands, important elements in maintaining water flows. ... One golf course requires 3000 to 5000 cubic metres of water a day to keep the turf green. This amount ...

5. The fading legend of Xolotlan

   basin. Nicaraguans once admired Xolotlan's beauty and drank from its clear waters. Today, however, ... Managua, making it an important reference point for city residents. With 6669 square kilometres of water ... , it is one of Nicaragua's most important bodies of water. At the beginning of the century, ...

6. Venezuela: Despite the crisis, Chavez’s legacy endures

   blackout affecting access to water and telecommunications, was striking. Extreme contradictions Equally ...

7. Ilhan Omar responds to attacks: Rashida and I are here to stay

   and generations. “There is a direct correlation between not having clean water and starting endless ...

8. Canada: What politicians are hiding about the tar sands

   its impacts on water. The parliamentarians even destroyed draft copies of their final report. After ... for water science and technology, admitted that a 2003 study found that oil-sand pollutants did indeed ... professor at the University of Waterloo, testified that “seepage of process affected water is occurring from ...

9. As strip searches rise so does anger at police abuse

   Naval Base. The men were literally being starved out, denied fresh drinking water and electricity. ...

10. COP24: Make 2019 the year of action on climate change

    consequences for many vulnerable people. Walgett, in north-western NSW, ran out of water and catastrophic fires ...

11. New hope that Santos may drop Narrabri CSG project

    construction of the Leeward waste water facility — a holding pond for the waste water bought up from the wells. ... Leewood water treatment plant to make way for irrigation with treated gas field produced water right next ... the licence to provide certainty to the community and protect the land and water”. “Developing new ...

12. Western Sydney residents say ‘Clean air, No incinerator’

    three local schools. Prospect Reservoir forms part of Sydney's drinking water and is only five ... kilometres from the proposed site: this would put the drinking water of 4.5 million people under threat of ... stopped and is dead in the water. Until that time we will keep up the fight." Melinda Wilson from No ...

13. Of course Jim Molan's no war criminal, he just happened to allegedly oversee alleged war crimes

    city were sealed off. “On October 16, the Washington Post reported that ‘electricity and water were cut ... were also denied access to deliver the most basic of humanitarian aid — water, food, and emergency ... water as a weapon of war against the civilian population [in] flagrant violation’ of the Geneva ...

14. Budget silent on climate change

    huge land clearing in Cape York, which will impact on water quality. According to the Treasurer, $443.8 ... reef's resilience, such as by improving water quality. Dealing with the effects of climate change, ... towards combating water quality issues, such as agricultural runoff and the culling of the ...

15. When it comes to fascist vote, Coalition senators were ‘just following orders’

    of water supplies due to the actions of mining corporations that pay bugger all tax. Environment ...

16. Manus Island crisis becomes an emergency

    October 31. They began collecting water from a well they dug and set up the gutter system to catch rain ... water. PNG authorities then went into the centre and removed the water, turning tanks over and spilling ... want to maintain a peaceful protest. At their daily protest on November 15, 400 men held up empty water ...

17. PAC savages proposal to mine Bylong Valley

    putting at risk prime agricultural land, precious water resources, heritage values and the community. The ...

18. Letter from the US: Hurricanes, global warming and dire projections for the near future

    amount of water the atmosphere can hold. It also is creating a rise in sea levels, increasing ocean ... communities. The couple, residents of Flair Bluff, N.C., were left wading through flood waters once again last ...

19. Industrial manslaughter ‘must be made a crime’ – Victorian unions

    treatment plant for Melbourne Water. The worker drowned after falling through a missing grate on a walkway ... more than two years and the issue had been reported numerous times. “Melbourne Water, one of the ...

20. UN finds torture 'routine’ and 'systematic': Australia must accept Tamil asylum seekers

    fingernails, insertion of needles beneath the fingernails, use of various forms of water torture, suspension of ...

21. People power stops toxic incinerator in Western Sydney

    impacts on air quality, water quality and human health”. A spokesperson for No Incinerator for Western ...

22. UN confirms that torture is ‘routine’ and ‘systematic’ in Sri Lanka

    fingernails, insertion of needles beneath the fingernails, use of various forms of water torture, suspension of ...

23. Ecological agriculture needs to be made a priority

    water does not stay in the soil. Herbicides are also fast losing their effectiveness. Agricultural ...

24. Eyewitness: Manus is ‘like a war zone’

    off power and water to the detention centre. Boochani told �鶹��ý Weekly: “Some of the refugees ... were working so hard overnight to find water by digging holes in the ground in Oscar compound. They ... were digging for hours and finally found water. “I don't know if this water is clean enough to ...

25. Manus Island refugees are ‘political hostages’

    water and power were cut. About 15% of detainees were taking prescribed psychotropic drugs. McKim said, ... order. Local Manusians smuggled food and water in through the military blockade on land and on small ... serious hygiene and safety issues and lack running water and food. Aziz said all they hear from ...

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