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Importing goods, exporting drought? : In the News
Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website
- Source: The Ecologist
22nd June 2009
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic. South Korea’s biggest is 1.3 million hectares in Madagascar. China’s is 1.24 million in the Philippines. Qatar’s most problematic is 40,000 hectares in Kenya. We’re talking breadbaskets, parcels of land bought in poorer countries where food is grown to feed foreign markets.
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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed
- Source: The Independent
- 15th June 2009
The rivers that made Iraq's dry soil so fertile are drying up because the supply of water, which once flowed south into Iraq from Turkey, Syria and Iran, is now held back by dams and used for irrigation. On the Euphrates alone, Turkey has five large dams upriver from Iraq, and Syria has two.
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Hosepipe ban extended after 60 years
- Source: The Daily Telegraph
- 23rd April 2009
Hosepipe bans will be extended so households cannot fill swimming pools, wash windows or clean the patio during a dry spell as part of new legislation to deal with the increased threat of droughts and flooding.
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Fit every home with water meter by 2020, says Environment Agency
- Source: The Guardian
- 30th March 2009
Climate change and population growth could lead to serious shortages without universal metering, warns chief executive
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China plans 59 reservoirs to collect meltwater from its shrinking glaciers
- Source: The Guardian
- 2nd March 2009
Major project for Xinjiang province amid concerns over future water supply
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Droughts ‘may lay waste’ to parts of US
- Source: The Guardian
- 26th February 2009
The world's pre-eminent climate scientists produced a blunt assessment of the impact of global warming on the US yesterday, warning of droughts that could reduce the American south-west to a wasteland and heatwaves that could make life impossible even in northern cities.
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L.A.’s water emergency
- Source: LA Times
- 13th February 2009
Recent rains mean nothing; the city must get serious about dealing with water shortages.
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Solution for the world’s water woes
- Source: BBC News
- 10th February 2009
Rising populations and growing demand is making the world a thirsty planet, says David Molden. In this week's Green Room, he says the solution lies in people reducing the size of their "water footprints".
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