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Kenya: Marking of Mau Borders Begins
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2010
Daily Nation: Marking of the Mau Forest Complex boundaries started on Tuesday. It is after completion of the demarcation being undertaken by 12 government surveyors that settlers targeted in the third phase of the evictions will know whether they will be ejected from the country's largest water tower. The surveyors seek to mark forest blocks that form the great Mau complex. Lands PS Dorothy Angote and her Forestry counterpart Mohammed Maoche were joined by officials of the Interim ...
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Drought ravages famed Philippine rice terraces
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: A worsening drought is exacting a terrible toll on the world-famous mountain rice terraces of the northern Philippines, local officials said Tuesday. A state of calamity was this week declared for the Banaue area that is home to many of the ancient stone-walled paddies and one of the Southeast Asian nation's most popular tourist destinations, the officials said. "The tourists still come here, but all they see are parched fields and forest fires and leave disappointed," Abriol ...
Uganda: Landslides – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2010
Inter Press Service: Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. When he heard the sound of rocks and soil tumbling down Mountain Elgon on a path to destroy part of his school, Wadyegere, along with other pupils, fled home. But instead of finding the refuge he hoped for, disaster awaited Wadyegere. His house and family were ...
United Kingdom: Gardeners urged to stop using peat-based compost
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on March 9th, 2010
Independent (UK): The star of the BBC's Gardeners' World has been drafted in by the Government as they try to persuade the public to stop using peat compost. Ministers hope that Diarmuid Gavin will help them convince gardeners to stop using peat, which is present in almost half of all compost sold by garden centres. Yesterday the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn announced a new target to phase out the use of peat compost in amateur gardens by 2020 but shied away from imposing a ban, provoking ...
Water Woes Fall on Women’s Shoulders
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 9th, 2010
Inter Press Service: As a wife of a rice farmer and mother of two children aged nine and two, Sanjeevani Bandara's days are packed with chores. Yet while she used to be able to keep up with all she has to do in a day, this Sri Lankan mother now finds herself struggling to accomplish even the most basic tasks. Blame it on the weather, which has been causing water shortages that force Bandara to spend more and more time fetching water for her family, farther away from home. While the volume of annual ...