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Save Cheltenham Park!
water per year could be harvested from the site, pumped into the local aquifer and re-used. This would ... National Water Initiative; •that the council prove that flood mitigation work for stormwater is not ... water entering via the Torrens Road catchment. For more information about the campaign, visit ...
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Sri Lanka: Conditions 'rapidly deteriorate' in war zone
reported that "stranded families packed fields filled with human waste, water supplies dwindled and ... crowding, water supplies, toilet facilities and stress in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). On ... enough food and drinking water." In a statement issued on February 24, the World Health Organisation ...
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Afghanistan: Cholera deaths, failing services and starvation
drinking water and sanitation as well as poor awareness about personal hygiene appear to be major causes of ... Afghanistan's estimated 27 million people have access to clean drinking water and 12 percent to safe sanitation, ... with cold water." September 19, 2009 811 World ...
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The campaign to save Lake Cowal
Lake Cowal mine, which will nearly double water consumption. Last July, the grassroots campaign against ... eat gold and you can't drink cyanide. We must remember water is more precious than gold. Water is ...
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Global warming: 'We need emergency action now!\'
focused on renewable energy and public transport. The Your Water Your Say (YWYS) group came from ... in infrastructure that captures that water, recycles it, reuses it, we continue to flush it out to ... the increased difficulty of sustaining agriculture and access to drinking water on her homeland and ...
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World Environment Day forests rally
forests, water catchments and threatened species habitat. Special guests include the John Butler Trio, ... spokesperson Fiona York said. "These areas are [also] vital for clean air and water. It is madness to be ... logging our water catchments while the state faces serious drought." Victoria's forests are ...
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Pakistan socialists oppose war
Lahor. Pakistan newspapers also reported that India has called for the scrapping of the Indus Water ... Treaty. The Indus Water Treaty of 1960 governs the distribution of water from the Indus River and its ...
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INDONESIA: Communities fight oil giants
oil refinery. Local residents were demanding compensation for the air and water pollution that has ... long plagued the surrounding waters and farmland. UNOCAL asked 60 police and BRIMOB officers to break ... waste disposal systems. A water sample taken earlier this year after the break of a UNOCAL pipeline ...
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Southwood activists score a victory
the state government to announce on June 5 that it is “shelving its plans for a deep water port at ... is based on a potential threat to water quality and marine life, as well as the future of the ... need to take more water out of the Huon River than actually flows through it at that point. Campaigners ...
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Little help for West Papuan drought victims
are compounding problems. Water supplies are low and unhealthy, and malnutrition is contributing. The ... down to the coast. Although this is a water-intensive operation, the mining operations have not slowed. ... Independent monitoring of mine operations, including toxic effects on the water supply, are forbidden. This is ...
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Goldmine threatens Timbarra wetland
thick plastic sheeting. It also plans to pump up to 2.5 million litres of water per day from the ... Timbarra River, which would significantly affect aquatic habitats and downstream water users. The ... result in contamination of the water courses leading to the Timbarra River. Those most adversely affected ...
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Green thumbs up
gardening and permaculture, such as how to make the most of limited resources (such as water) or how to ... and use up to 12 wheelie bins full of water in one year. Choosing less water-hungry and hardier plants ...
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Subsidising environmental destruction
environmental costs of industries involved in electricity, water supply, sewerage, solid-waste disposal, ... The biggest financial subsidy was $3.3 billion to the water supply industry; the second highest — $1.2 ... biodiversity, reduction in water catchments and loss of tourism. August 7, 1996 241 News ...
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Billabongs 'a biodiversity jungle'
as rich in biodiversity as the waters of the Amazon jungles, according to a scientist with the ... said. Flowing water provided few niches for species to live in, while still billabongs had a diverse ... spill out into the flood plain and breed in the shallow flood water, providing instant food for native ...
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New evidence on bleach and HIV
the 2*water 2*bleach 2*water method. Recent US evidence, verified by the NSW Users and AIDS ... on clean needles, water, spoons and swabs when injecting drugs. Stock up on equipment at every ...
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US to phase out cancer-causing pesticides
the ruling for dozens of chemicals on a host of crops. The agreement should also help protect water ... supplies from pesticide contamination. Agricultural chemicals are one of the biggest water pollutants, and ... the EPA has found that one of every 10 public water supply wells in the US contains at least one ...
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Loose cannons
— Sunday Telegraph, March 3. Remember when it came from the tap? "Water is the fastest growing ... beverage in the world. In the US the average person consumes 70 litres of packaged water a year." ... — Stephen Elliott, managing director of a company that produces water in a cask, quoted in the Good Weekend. ...
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Deliberately contributing to disaster
and agricultural supplies to critically low levels. The Baghdad water supply was operating at 10% of ... its previous capacity, and some of the available supply was drawn from sewage-polluted sources. Water ... With the Iraqi summer imminent, a serious escalation of water, food, sanitation and health problems was ...
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Turkey is committing war crimes in Afrin
been seized by Turkish-backed jihadists, farms have been destroyed, cattle killed, water and ...
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Who’s afraid of BDS?
checkpoints, theft of resources like water and cold-blooded murder, such as the recent massacres in Gaza. ...
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Gaza flotilla activist denounces Israel’s attack on humanitarian boat
journalists on board. This took place in international waters, rendering Israel's interception an act of ... released. Coleman said: “The seizure of the Dignite Al Karame in international waters was a violation of ...
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South Africa: Workers launch new revolt
water, electricity and health. But even as the ANC was doing that, it moved away from a social welfare ... government services. This has meant people losing secure access to basic things such as water, electricity, ...
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Cuba cleans up hurricane damage, sends medical staff across Caribbean
Minister of Interior Nestor Luis Reverol Torres said Venezuela has sent 10 tons of food, drinking water ...
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Misnamed ‘Green Revolution’ eyes Africa
yielded higher than the Green Revolution varieties when measured on production per water use or per ... yielding varieties require three times more water. In Punjab, where water comes from bores, there has been ... a drop in the water table of 30cm per year. In areas irrigated by canals, water tables have risen, ...
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United States grinding down its Puerto Rico colony
Now! noted that the board’s website said it had told the governor that his “plan for the water ... authority was not sufficient, that they wanted a 17% cut in costs, because the water authority is projecting ... a 17% loss in water revenues as a result of the storm. They also told the government that its overall ...