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1. Water crisis: how the market economy is sucking us dry

   Tony Iltis As with other environmental issues, Australia's water crisis has reached such an ... poverty, there is an underlying assumption that the water crisis can be overcome by the very thing that ... the drought means that it cannot be seen as cyclical — strategies for dealing with the water crisis ...

2. Western Sahara: Africa’s oldest conflict reignites

   water or electricity grid, there is no economy. Food and water are supplied by humanitarian ...

3. Philippines: COVID-19 crisis reveals simmering tensions in the regime

   pre-existing problems of lack of water, electricity, decent housing and the lack of jobs. “What the food drives ...

4. The world must recognise Western Sahara

   feel full, but does not have the nutrients needed to maintain health. “We get water from the desert ...

5. Disaster capitalism, national liberation and the Philippines election

   survivors were relocated to other areas where they did not even have decent housing or drinking water. That ...

6. Kenya: Flower cash crops reap hunger, destruction

   Lake Naivasha. A January 2008 report by Food and Water Watch and the Council of Canadians, Lake ... water causes levels to drop. This has had a devastating effect on plant, marine and animal life. Hippo ... water from communal taps and form long lines to do so. “Cattle herders, such as the Maasai, can only ...

7. Why the market cannot solve the environment crisis

   tradeable carbon emissions or water use rights, can provide financial incentives for corporations or ... the increasing shortage of water. The NSW government's solution is to commission a $1.9 billion ... a quarter of a million more cars on the road. Yet global warming is a major cause of Australia's water ...

8. Pakistan: Flood aid falls short

   sweep down the Indus River toward the Arabian Sea, a fifth of Pakistan was under water by late August. ... nothing more than the clothes on their backs. “All are at high risk of hunger, and water-borne diseases. ... diverting water towards poorer localities in order to protect their own land.” [Donations from Australia to ...

9. Oppose Labor's uranium push!

   "regulated" releases of water contaminated with radium as well as non-radioactive toxins are part of standard ... of contaminated water every wet season into the fragile and globally significant ecosystem of the ... Kakadu's water, plants and animals. The threat to human health by this radioactive pollution was ...

10. Philippines: Thousands take to streets for Bonifacio Day

    and the privatisation and deregulation of essential services such as energy and water. It also called ...

11. Fiji's severe cyclone-- climate change claims more victims

    and thousands left homeless, deprived of livelihood and at risk of water- and mosquito-borne diseases. ... authorities were also concerned about lack of clean water carrying the risk of outbreaks of water ...

12. G20's pledges will worsen crisis for the poor

    privatisation of basic social infrastructure (including water), enforcement of intellectual property rights and ... more than 4 million people each year. The privatisation of water infrastructure makes safe drinking ... water and adequate sanitation unaffordable to the Third World poor, which is a major factor contributing ...

13. Niger's uranium coup

    January 14 that the "use of non-renewable water sources for … underground mines and … leakages of ... radioactive matter, including the contamination of water, air and soil; the use of lethal radioactive scrap ... died." He said that water in the region had 10 times the level of radioactivity considered safe. ...

14. The real story of the Somali pirates

    British Independent columnist Johann Hari said foreign illegal fishing in Somali waters netted more than ... coastline of Somalia have been complaining of illegal vessels coming to Somali waters and stealing all the ... waters. "These European companies were said to be paying warlords about $3 a ton, whereas to properly ...

15. Philippines: Police shoot hungry protesters

    Mindanao are talking about hunger and worsening water crisis in Bukidnon, the Lanao and Davao provinces,” ... worsening the water situation in Mindanao and called on the government “to cushion impacts by ordering ... and ensure proper management of water resources among others”. In an April 1 statement, left-wing ...

16. Australia's war on people smugglers is really a war on refugees

    Indonesian navies, the refugees are lacking food, water and fuel and their boats – not designed for ... the small amounts of food and water that the navies have given them. This is Australian policy at ... May 22, 2015 1054 Rohingya women in a boat drifiting in Thai waters on May 14. Tony Abbott Analysis ...

17. Western Sahara: ‘We only want our country’

    anything. It was a very difficult situation. If the Moroccan and Mauritanian armies found some water, they ... killed camels or donkeys and put them in the water to make it undrinkable. Sometimes, planes would fly ... difficult. In summer, when it’s hot, the children go to school and they just have hot water to drink, there ...

18. Haiti: US military occupation worsens suffering, blocks aid

    deliver the humanitarian relief — the food, water and medicine — that Haitians will need in the coming ... capital, Port-Au-Prince, were still without food, water and medical supplies. Aid agencies, meanwhile, have ... downtown, where the people urgently need water, food and medicine", Wilson Guillaume, a 25-year-old ...

19. Why the West backs Israel — and how to make it stop

    maintains control over airspace, territorial waters and the movement of people and goods into or out of the ... of water in the West Bank means that Jewish settlements not only have running water in all homes, but ... water is used to fill backyard swimming pools. In surrounding Palestinian communities, by contrast, ...

20. Haiti: FoxNews lies about Cuba's role

    doctors, search and rescue experts, as well as food, water, medical supplies and rescue equipment arriving ...

21. Corporate vultures circle occupied Haiti

    Belgium, but I never saw anyone distributing water, food or shelter." The January 26 Haiti Liberte ... reported that the US has established a huge Naval presence in Haitians waters aimed at preventing ...

22. Reject Howard's climate swindle

    territory public housing) to convert from electric to solar or heat pump hot-water systems. However, the ... solar hot-water systems for schools. This means giving additional public money — up to $50,000 — to ...

23. Malaysia: Repression fails to stop anti-price-hike campaign

    Anti-people policies These policies — which have included privatising or corporatising water, electricity, ... and water cannon. One of these columns, mobilised by the PSM and the Movement of Oppressed People ...

24. Why Israel loves Trump

    suburbs. Water is given freely to, and squandered by, the settlements. Yet public taps that only work some ... of the day provide the water supply in many of the Palestinian ghettos. Legally, the settlers are ...

25. After Cyclone Pam: Climate action is urgent

    on March 17 that in the north-western island of Moso, people were without fresh water and forced to ... drink seawater. “Drinking saltwater is damaging as the more a person drinks, the more water already ... but when you think about the volume of extra water riding on a storm surge, it's a significant ...

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