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Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangladesh
Gopālpur :: Bangladesh | 2 days ago
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Fresh Water More Precious Than Gold in Bangladesh Women collecting water from a deep tube well in Chapainawabganj, Bangladesh...Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On
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Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage
Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 days ago
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IPS Articles The 2012/2013 Kenya country brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations stated that the October to December short-rains' season performed poorly (and) a series of dry spells also caused poor germination leading
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Water Flows Again in the Valley
Rome :: Italy | 3 days ago
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To date, the fund has enabled the construction of 124 irrigation pipes feeding over 8,000 acres of farmland; 60 rainwater harvesting ponds, each about the size of an acre; five delay action dams that collect surface water and are ideal for the Valley'
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Tackling Crime Takes on Import As Urban Populations Rise
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 days ago
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As people around the world continue to migrate into cities, swelling urban populations, they have sparked growth in another area: crime and security issues. Big cities arewhere the greatest opportunities are, but also where more criticalities
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Seeking Justice for Dictatorship Victims – Two Continents Apart
Seoul :: South Korea | 3 days ago
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Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Oblivion and Silence, is an Argentine rights group founded in 1995 when children of people disappeared by that country's 1976-1983 military regime came together to hold escraches or outings of human
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
Bridgetown :: Barbados | 3 days ago
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IPS Articles Strawberries don't usually grow in these climates but we have managed to grow them successfully and we are still growing them at the moment, he said. Hydroponics is a technique used to grow plants without soil, instead using mineral
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Caribbean Scientist Warns of Climate Change Disaster
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 days ago
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The Caribbean does not have the luxury of time for decisive action on climate change and global warming. In fact, it is on the brink of calamity, according to a prominent scientist. Conrad Douglas, a Jamaican scientist who has published over 350
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Explosives Shatter Lives in Kashmir
Jhelum :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
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Aadil Khan and his two siblings had been playing as usual behind their house in the village of Diver, 110 kilometres north of Kashmir's capital, Srinagar, when they came across what they thought was a plaything laying on the ground. But no sooner had
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Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo?
Tōkyō :: Japan | 7 days ago
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IPS Articles The paper went on to blame the complete lack of strategic planning by the political leadership and Caricom Secretariat in positioning our regional citizens for top jobs. Earlier in the week, the country's former prime minister P.J...At
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Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by Human Expansion
Phetchaburi :: Thailand | 7 days ago
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The spoon-billed sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus), seen here in Phetchaburi, Thailand, could be extinct within a decade...Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as
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