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Tuvalu water crisis highlights global concerns
Posted by Associated Press: Nick Perry on October 15th, 2011
Associated Press: Palelei Tovia recalls how Tuvalu islanders used to survive droughts with all-night vigils at wells to collect precious freshwater during the moments it seeped into the shafts.
Tovia, now a schoolteacher, said that during the last bad drought 14 years ago, she stayed up beside a well with her high school friends, telling each other stories to stay awake. As the ocean tide rose, she said, it would push freshwater into the well, and they'd take turns scooping it out, cup by cup.
This year's drought...
South Pacific Faces Water Shortages, Fouled Reserves Linked To Climate Change
Posted by Associated Press: Nick Perry on October 4th, 2011
Associated Press: Crops are wilting, schools have shut their bathrooms and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe shortage of fresh water in a swath of the South Pacific. The island groups of Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared emergencies, relying on bottled water and seeking more desalination machines. Parts of Samoa are starting to ration water. Supplies are precariously low after a severe lack of rain in a region where underground reserves have been fouled by saltwater from rising seas...
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Posted by Associated Press: Nick Perry on October 4th, 2011
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