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Deliberate Targeting Water Sources Worsens Misery for Millions of Syrians
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kanya D'Almeida on August 26th, 2015
Inter Press Service: Imagine having to venture out into a conflict zone in search of water because rebel groups and government forces have targeted the pipelines. Imagine walking miles in the blazing summer heat, then waiting hours at a public tap to fill up your containers. Now imagine realizing the jugs are too heavy to carry back home.
This scene, witnessed by an engineer with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is becoming all too common in embattled Syria. In this case, the child sent to fetch water...
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Posted by Inter Press Service: Kanya D'Almeida on August 30th, 2011
Inter Press Service: On the tenth day of a protest wave that has been gaining momentum since Aug. 20 and will continue until Sep. 3, nearly 300 people gathered in Lafayette Park directly across from the White House in Washington D.C., chanting, "When I say 'tar sands', you say 'no!' When I say 'action', you say 'go!'"
The protest - a sustained effort against the building of a new oil pipeline connecting the tar sands of Canada's southwestern province to several refineries around the Gulf of Mexico – is the most recent...
Water Crisis Offers Chance for Unity over Strife
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kanya D'Almeida on July 30th, 2011
Inter Press Service: As record-breaking temperature highs and rapidly melting ice caps fuel fears about impending "water wars", some experts in Washington say that the threat of full-blown conflict is exaggerated, adding that robust institutions and solid treaties could transform water crises into international cooperation.
The planet is currently home to 276 international river basins, which cover almost a half of the earth's land surface and are home to 40 percent of the global population.
Many of these basins...
Dire Development Issues Converge in the Drylands
Posted by Inter Press Service: Kanya D'Almeida on December 17th, 2010
Inter Press Service: Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is crucial, for it is human behaviour that has led to the proliferation of hyper- arid, uncultivable drylands over the past few decades.
As vast amounts of land are increasingly lost to desertification, the United Nations General Assembly declared the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification (UNDDD), scheduled...