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SOUTH AFRICA: Cholera epidemic linked to GEAR
to pay for previously free and clean water. "After the drought in 1993, the government installed ... communal taps in the now cholera-infected areas. The water was used by local villagers and outlying ... communities, and was free", noted Molaba. "In August, the department of water affairs, which is ...
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INDIA: Supreme Court gives Narmada dam go-ahead
instead allowing dam waters to be raised a further two metres to 90 metres. The Sardar Sarovar Dam, when ... completed, will be the second largest in the world. Dam waters will inundate 37,000 hectares of forest and ... compensation. The Supreme Court's decision is the first to raise the water levels since an April 1999 ...
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INDONESIA: Communities fight oil giants
oil refinery. Local residents were demanding compensation for the air and water pollution that has ... long plagued the surrounding waters and farmland. UNOCAL asked 60 police and BRIMOB officers to break ... waste disposal systems. A water sample taken earlier this year after the break of a UNOCAL pipeline ...
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PERU: Vulture funds hover over poor countries
medicine and clean water." BY SEAN HEALY November 1, 2000 426 World ...
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EAST TIMOR: Solidarity activists condemn oil deal
territorial waters. That is what is happening now. While Indonesia occupied East Timor, everybody's ... territorial waters. Canberra pressured Jakarta into agreeing to setting up a Zone of Cooperation (ZOCA) which ...
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Bracks, police cop it at Labor conference
police violence was, in Quantock's words, " watered down [with] words taken out and sentences ...
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INDONESIA: Impending catastrophe
slums have no fresh water. Slum dwellers must buy their water and also pay for the use of public ...
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Huon Valley threatened by massive woodchip project
woodchipping complex and wood-fired power station in the valley and a deep sea water port for woodchip export, ...