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UN wants more access to help with water in parched Somalia
Posted by AlertNet: None Given on March 22nd, 2011
AlertNet: A Somali family sits outside their hut in Medina Xoosh district in Mogadishu January 12, 2011. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - The United Nations appealed on Tuesday for greater humanitarian access to communities in Somalia, where a severe drought is having a devastating effect on a population already weakened by two decades of armed conflict.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) used World Water Day to urge warring sides in the semi-arid Horn of Africa...
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Flooded Bolivia faces long-term water woes
Posted by AlertNet: None Given on March 3rd, 2011
AlertNet: Widespread flooding in Bolivia, which prompted the government to declare a national emergency last week, shows the vulnerability of one of South America's poorest countries to changing weather patterns linked to climate change.
Landlocked Bolivia, which runs from the rugged Andes to the Amazon jungle, faces a variety of climate change-related pressures, from disappearing glaciers to worsening droughts and more intense and unpredictable rainfall. Combined with rising urban demand for water, the...
Southern African farmers face heavy flood losses
Posted by AlertNet: None Given on February 23rd, 2011
AlertNet: A woman enters her home flooded with water, close to the swollen Limpopo River in Mozambique, Temba Mduli's fields resemble a vast lake, studded with treetops and half-submerged buildings. Once-green corn, soya beans, potatoes and sunflowers have been turned yellow by some of the worst flooding to cut through northern South Africa in years.
"I will be lucky just to get fodder out of the bad parts,' he says, as his two John Deere tractors sit nearby, submerged to their steering wheels. "That's...