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Breaking News Sun, 13 Oct 2013
India Local People walk on a bridge supported  by Country boat on a water canal in a flooded locality of  Ghatal in West Midnapore district on Friday 23 August 2013
Cyclone Phailin   Flooding   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Cyclone Phailin  
 Boston Herald 
Cyclone in India weakens; officials say few deaths
BEHRAMPUR, India — India began sorting through miles of wreckage Sunday after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore, flooding towns and villages and destroying tens of thousands of thatch homes, but officia... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
We can't take water for granted
Climate   Photos   UN Development   Water   Wikipedia: Water supply  
 New Straits/Business Times 
We can't take water for granted
RUNNING DRY: A UN study concludes that by 2025, 60pc of people in the world will live without enough water supply |    MANY among the older generation  still remember the days in the 19... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
A Filipino girl child drinking icy water to quench her thirst on a very hot afternoon in Davao City, Philippines.  BBC News 
Do you really need to drink eight cups of water a day?
Drinking eight cups or two litres of water a day is longstanding advice. But is there any scientific basis for it, asks Dr Chris van Tulleken. | You know those ads that remind us that even a small dro... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Fitness   Health Care   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Drinking water  
Activists of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) burn an effigy representing Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the central governments decision to initiate the process of creating a separate Telangana state, at their party office in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009.  The Guardian 
Andhra Pradesh blackout enters sixth day as talks with striking workers fail
Electricity plants across south-east Indian state remain shut as state employees protest over creation of state of Telangana | Residents in Vizag block a road with burning tyres to protest against the... (photo: AP / Mahesh Kumar A.)
Andhra   Electricity   Indian   Photos   Wikipedia: Telangana  
Top Stories
A fisherman on the small boat to catch fish on the bank of Hooghly River at Babughat in Kolkata on Thursday 04 July 2013 The Times Of India
Thames-like river transport to ease pressure off road, rail
KOLKATA: After the power shift, now comes the renewed urgency from the state to strengthen the river transport to ease pressure off both road and railways. | Ever since M... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Kolkata   Photos   River   Transport   Wikipedia: Kolkata  
File - Somali men and women carrying their sick and malnourished children wait outside a medical clinic established by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), an active regional peacekeeping mission operated by the African Union with the approval of the United Nations, 16 July, 2011. Al Jazeera
How Africa can feed itself in the face of climate change
With the global population approaching 9.6 billion by 2050, huge demands will be placed on states and the environment to provide sufficient food. | Already, leaders are s... (photo: UN / Stuart Price)
Climate Change   Food Security   Photos   Population Growth   Wikipedia: Food security  
In this Sept. 18, 2013 photo, a storage tank, center, is seen under dismantling operation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. Denver Post
Overflowing tank cause of new leak at Fukushima
Click photo to enlarge | This aerial photo shows the storage tank, fifth from left at left plot, which workers detected the water dripping from the top, at the Fukushima ... (photo: AP / Tokyo Electric Power Co.)
Fukushima Disaster   Nuclear Pollution   Photos   TEPCO   Wikipedia: Fukushima disaster cleanup  
Climate Change Environment and Nature
- Digging deeper on climate change
- Cloudy with a chance of... climate change: Discovery that ag
- Cloudy with a chance of... climate change
- Campaign giving hints at changing political climate
Dried up: climate change could leave another billion people without enough water
Dried up: climate change could leave another billion people without enough water
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- Cool change a 'welcome relief' for NSW fire fighters
- Cool change a 'welcome relief' for NSW fire fighters
- America is imploding
- The plight of the pangolin: One of the planet's most ext
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Desalination Hydrology
- Not far from Lake Michigan, Wisconsin city yearns for water
- Sunday letters: Is Metro listening, Proposition 6
- Can desalination plan revive fortunes of Jordan desert?
- German bank grants 271 mln USD loan to Morocco OCP
Dried up: climate change could leave another billion people without enough water
Dried up: climate change could leave another billion people without enough water
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- Rotorua geyser erupts after three decades
- Geyser erupts after three decades
- Civic body fails to revive lakes after 2010 takeover
- Best of both worlds down on the farm
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Hydropower Oceans and Seas
- The (energy) state of the nation
- Brimming Koyna hints at sufficient power
- Ethiopia plans Eurobond once rating review complete - PM
- Dam water to be lowered for deities in Kullu
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- The sea sustains our bodies and soothes our souls
- Project to replenish Dead Sea water levels confirmed
- Singh differs with China on sea dispute CHARU SUDAN KASTURI
- South China Sea dispute cloud hovers on ASEAN
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Global Warming Water Pollution
- Animated video attempts to explain the global warming debate
- Sports fans' Mexican waves help explain global warming h
- 'Frequent destructive storms as global warming intensifi
- `Frequent destructive storms as global warming intensifies`
'Frequent destructive storms as global warming intensifies'
'Frequent destructive storms as global warming intensifies'
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- Aging water systems challenge small N. Idaho towns
- Composters transform roadkill into landscape
- We can't take water for granted
- Aging water systems challenge small N. Idaho towns
We can't take water for granted
We can't take water for granted
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