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Q&A: Regional Prescriptions for Water Management
Patrick Burnett interviews LENKA THAMAE, executive secretary of the Orange-Senqu River Commission
MASERU - The Orange-Senqu River has a one million square kilometre basin that covers Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The water it provides is crucial to industry in South Africa, but is also relied on by farmers and domestic users.
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MIDEAST: Gaza's Water Supply Near Collapse
By Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH - The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of disease could be triggered as a consequence.
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MALAWI: Questions Over Water Stats
By Claire Ngozo
LILONGWE - A set of new research data contests the Malawian government's claims that nearly all of the country’s urban citizens have access to clean water and sanitation.
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SWAZILAND: Sunshine Brings the Gift of Water
By Mantoe Phakathi
SITSATSAWENI, Swaziland - It is break time. A handful of pupils of Sitsatsaweni Primary School are crowded around a 25-litre bucket to wash their hands before tucking into a meal of samp and beans.
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ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: What Makes A Good Dam?
Prime Sarmiento interviews respected Chinese environmentalist YU XIAOGANG
MANILA - The Chinese government needs to engage local communities in harnessing its vast water and hydropower resources and pursuing sustainable development, says environmental advocate Yu Xiaogang, recipient of the 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Participatory Social Impact Assessment for Watershed Management.
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SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers - Going, Going…Gone?
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.
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WATER-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Research Not Trickling Down To Farmers
By Vusumuzi Sifile
MAPUTO - Farmers could be losing tonnes of crops every harvest just because no one has bothered to tell them that scientists have found more effective methods of using water to farm.
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WATER-NAMIBIA: For What Does It Profit a Man...
By Servaas van den Bosch*
OKOMBAHE, Namibia - "Our profit so far is 5,000 Namibian dollars, divided by twenty people," reports Anna Nauses. Silence descends on the office of the Prosopis Project in Okombahe as all do the math. Sixteen months of hard labour felling water-thirsty trees along the Omaruru River has yielded just 30 U.S. dollars per person.
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ENVIRONMENT: ‘Water Recklessness Worsening Drought’
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - India’s current dry spell, brought on by an errant annual monsoon, is rapidly turning into a full-fledged drought as a result of reckless exploitation of groundwater resources for farming, experts say.
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WATER-NAMIBIA: Running A Dry River
By   Servaas van den Bosch 
 OMARURU, Namibia  - The Omaruru River basin is one of the first in Namibia to establish a basin management committee. Its members have a difficult balancing act to perform with a water resource that’s already being utilised to its maximum.
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DEVELOPMENT: New Threats Aggravate Africa's Water Crisis
By Thalif Deen
STOCKHOLM - The widespread water scarcity in the African continent, impacting on the lives of nearly 300 million people, may be aggravated further by several new threats, including climate change, transboundary disputes and the negative fallout from military conflicts.
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EGYPT: Differences 'Narrowing' Over Nile Waters
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO - Signs are emerging of some narrowing of differences over the sharing of Nile waters.
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DEVELOPMENT: Political Power Dictates Transboundary Waters
By Thalif Deen
STOCKHOLM - A longstanding quote attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the legendary author and humourist Mark Twain has been reverberating in the conference rooms of the Swedish capital: "Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over."
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From drought to floods, from privatisations to citizen-led management, from toxic spills and devastation to sanitation and conservation, from water wars to water as a human right, IPS correspondents track the issues surrounding this precious liquid.

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US-INDIA: State Visit by Singh Could Smooth Bumpy Relations

PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals

CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk

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Trading Up
By Catherine Ashton

CUBA: OBAMA EXTINGUISHES THE HOPES HE RAISED
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes

NEOLIBERALISM: A SURVIVOR BY DEFAULT
By Walden Bello

HUMAN EXISTENCE IS AT REAL AND IMMINENT RISK
By Maurice Strong

BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
By Andrew MacMillan

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