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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Water and Improved Livelihoods
By Zahira Kharsany
JOHANNESBURG - "Sanitation may hold the key to success or failure of the MDGs. It is really a time bomb in terms of health and the environment, waiting to be detonated," Professor Damas Mashauri told participants at a seminar on water and sustainable development taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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ARGENTINA: Illegal Embankment Continues to Harm Wetlands
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - The government of the northeastern Argentine province of Corrientes has been unable to enforce the ruling of the district's highest court, which nearly a year ago ordered the removal of a 30-kilometre embankment that is damaging the valuable wetlands ecosystem known as the Esteros del Iberá.
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INDIA: Water Privatisation - 'No Need For Costly Consultants'
By Keya Acharya
JAMSHEDPUR, Jharkhand state - The Indian corporate conglomerate, Tata, says it is ready to provide water services in this vast country and also prove that privatisation does not have to involve expensive foreign consultants and providers.
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DEVELOPMENT: Laos Struggles With Dam Dilemma
By E Souk - Newsmekong*
KHAMMOUANE - The Lao government places great hopes on plans to build hydroelectric dams to generate electricity for the country and to sell to neighbouring Thailand. But for residents along the Hinboun River in the central province of Khammouane, the reality has been different.
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HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Activists Say Cholera Due to Failed Leadership
By Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE - "In my nine years as a nurse, I have never been so devastated. You know how discouraging it is to see people dying before your eyes. And you know very well there is nothing you can do to help them."
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POVERTY: Water Wars Hit Rural Zimbabwe
By Ignatius Banda
PLUMTREE - When water experts warned at the turn of the millennium that soon wars will be fought not over oil anymore but over water, little did Zimbabweans know that they would be some of the first people affected by this dire prediction.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Indus Water Treaty Agitates Kashmiris
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - As Pakistan and India wrangle over the waters of the Chenab, Kashmiris - through whose homeland the river and four other tributaries of the mighty Indus flow - have reason to be agitated.
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CHILE: Native Community in Desert Oasis Threatened by Mines
By Daniela Estrada
ALTO DEL CARMEN, Chile - The Diaguita indigenous community in Huasco Alto, surrounded by rich gold, silver and copper deposits in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, are engaged in a struggle to prevent mining projects from infringing on their territory and destroying their way of life and ancestral identity.
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MIDEAST: Where Water Leaves a Bitter Taste
By Ramesh Jaura*
BARCELONA - Palestinian villagers drink unsafe agricultural water rather than trusting water provided by an Israeli company, says Buthaina Mizyed, who has worked in Arraneh village near the conflict-laden West Bank city of Jenin.
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BOLIVIA: Water, Energy Everywhere - But Not for Locals
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - Peasant farmers in 42 villages along the Zongo valley in western Bolivia stand by and watch as the flourishing electricity industry harnesses the swift-flowing river while, paradoxically, their own farms are languishing from lack of water and energy.
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ARGENTINA: Women Create Food and Jobs in Wetlands
By Marcela Valente*
SANTA FE, Argentina - Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them. Her co-workers will process and package the fish to sell as traditional, small-scale fish preserves at food fairs along the banks of the river in Argentina.
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DEVELOPMENT-ANGOLA: Building Sustainable Water Systems
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - Angola may be emerging as an African super power with its plentiful oil exports and a booming property market. But look behind the façade of this boom and real entrenched poverty continues to blight millions of lives.
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Q&A: 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams'
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews JEREMY BIRD, Mekong River Commission
VIENTIANE - Concerns over the future of fisheries in the Mekong River floated to the surface at the first round of discussions held here late this month to shape a blueprint to build a series of mega dams across South-east Asia’s largest body of water.
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From drought to floods, from privatisations to citizen-led management, from toxic spills and devastation to sanitation and conservation, from water wars to water as a human right, IPS correspondents track the issues surrounding this precious liquid.

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By Catherine Ashton

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By Leonardo Padura Fuentes

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By Walden Bello

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By Maurice Strong

BRAZIL: SHOWING THE WORLD HOW TO END HUNGER
By Andrew MacMillan

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