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ZAMBIA : Fishing in Troubled Waters
By Zarina Geloo*
 LUSAKA  - In two decades of fishing on the Zambezi, Darius Wamulume has never seen anything like this. With deep ulcerations and tissue decay, the fish he has caught recently is too unsightly to sell and too suspect to eat.
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WATER-UGANDA: Reducing Run-off To Protect Lake Victoria
By Pius Sawa*
GGABA, Uganda - The Ggaba landing site on Lake Victoria is the nearest wholesale fish market to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. More than 6,000 people live and work in this fishing community.
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WATER-BOTSWANA: A Garden In the Heart of the Village
By Nicholas Mokwena & Terna Gyuse
MOKOBENG, Botswana - Look, there's no drama with the borehole in Mokobeng. And that's the way it should be.
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MOZAMBIQUE: Watching the Water Flow Away
By Zenaida Machado
MAPUTO - Less than 100 kilometres from the second-largest dam in Africa, women walk with their babies strapped on their back, water pails balanced on their heads.
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ENVIRONMENT: Pipeline Renews Debate on Sea-Dumped Chemical Weapons
By Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - On Sep. 24, a beachgoer near Swansea, Wales reported a piece of military equipment washed up on the shore. Three days later, the two members of the team that had showed up to dispose of the shell developed symptoms compatible with mustard gas – a chemical warfare agent used in the two world wars and other conflicts.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Addressing Water Wastage
By Patrick Burnett
CAPE TOWN - How do you fix a leaking pipe?
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WATER-ZIMBABWE : New Wells Protect Environment, Build Peace
By  Vusumuzi Sifile
SHAMVA, Zimbabwe  - Twenty years ago, Isaac Chidavaenzi would worry when his neighbours set up vegetable gardens on river banks, trying to get closer to water sources. The number of gardens on the rivers' banks has now decreased, but Chidavaenzi is even more worried.
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Q&A: Climate Change Just One Factor in Coastal Erosion
Gabriela Cerioli interviews Argentine geologist JORGE CODIGNOTTO*
BUENOS AIRES - The Paraná River delta in eastern Argentina is the only one in the world that is not disappearing, and that is due to deforestation for cultivating soybeans, explains geologist Jorge Codignotto, a former member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in this interview.
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BIODIVERSITY: Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
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BIODIVERSITY: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday.
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DEVELOPMENT: Resource Crunch Signals Larger Ecological Crisis
By Zarrín Caldwell
WASHINGTON - How would development programmes look if viewed from the position of scarcity, especially the scarcity of food, water, and energy?
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SANITATION-ZAMBIA: Back Policy With Funding
By Kelvin Kachingwe
MANSA, Zambia - Water- and sanitation-related diseases cost communities dearly, particularly in rural Zambia.
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DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Farmers Vs Coca-Cola in Water Wars
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - As India faces its worst drought in four decades, a dispute over water resources between farmers in the Kala Dera area of western Rajasthan state and a Coca-Cola bottling plant located there has sharpened.
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