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  1. High-speed rail better than a second Sydney airport

    '99, the report showed most of the site is in a water catchment area for Sydney and Wollongong, and all ... can't even use flame retardants — they have to use plain water because everything disappears into the ... out the welcome mat to the coal seam gas industry, a direct threat to water supplies. Airplane fuel ...

  2. India: Commonwealth games brings homelessness and debt

    have been felled. Rain water drains have been covered. “The Games Village has been built on the flood ... plains of the River Yamuna, causing a drop in the ground water table in Delhi. The river bed is ... “Dengue and water is strongly related. Delhi is already dug up because of the games and it is also raining ...

  3. Change needed in Tasmania

    government undemocratically acquired control of water and sewerage provision from local government. The ... polluters; returning water and sewerage to local control with state government back-up; and for free and ...

  4. Hunger strikes, rallies against genocide in Sri Lanka

    began to worsen rapidly. After 106 hours without food or water Thanbalasingam was rushed to Canberra ... strikers from Sydney took their first sip of water late on April 15. Thanbalasingam explained he only ... decided to drink water because "people kept telling me I have to be alive and well to tell the ...

  5. Iraq: Occupation continues suffering

    November 1: "It was a scene from hell, dead bodies, flesh, body parts. Fires, water, broken pipes, ... the streets of many towns and cities, the lack of clean water, fuel and electricity, and the ever ...

  6. Young people to camp for climate action

    "When it comes to water, climate and jobs, actions speak louder than words!" The Climate Camp ...

  7. Britain hosting Games in age of discontent

    water have severe and debilitating birth defects. “The Olympic organisers could not have chosen a worse ... December 18: “In 2009, at the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, the BBC took a sample of water from a hand ...

  8. Stop the genocide: Sri Lanka wages war on Tamil people

    a single meal a day. Chronic malnutrition is simply a matter of time. Potable water, too, is in short ... defecate in the open. The area's medical officers fear an outbreak of water-borne communicable ...

  9. Forest 'peace deal' signed

    agreement fails to include principles of protecting water supplies sucked up by plantations and poisoned by ...

  10. Lebanon: Israel withdrawal not nearly enough

    Farms, a water-rich area, which both Lebanon and Syria agree is a part of Lebanon, but which Israel ...

  11. Egypt: Protesters demand changes, Mubarak detained

    reported from Cairo in an April 9 post on his Moon Under Water blog that the army had “blocked off all ...

  12. New sanctions placed on Iran

    sanctions imposed by the Security Council did not go as far as the US wanted and had to be watered down in ...

  13. Thailand: Behind the protests

    workers in strikes to crimp the supplies of power and water to government offices and disrupt ...

  14. Stop Bush!

    massive unemployment. Around 68% of Iraqis have no access to safe drinking water. Provision of basic goods ...

  15. Egypt: People's power takes on dictatorship

    tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons. The protesters however, did not retreat. In many places, ...