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China to resettle at least 440,000 for water project: reportBeijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 China will resettle at least 440,000 people to make way for a massive and much-delayed project aimed at diverting water to meet growing demand in the parched north, state media said Wednesday. Authorities will move around 100,000 residents a year to allow construction of the South-to-North Water Diversion project, the Beijing News said, which aims to divert water from a tributary of the ... read more |
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Mumbai (AFP) Dec 7, 2009India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease. The Tata Swach -- named after the Hindi for "clean" -- is designed to be used in poor, rural households that have no electricity or running water, using ash from rice milling to filter out ... more  
Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 Two U.S. federal agencies say they have created software designed to offer farmers online help in assessing food production security methods. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service say the risk assessment tool called Agriculture CARVER + Shock is designed to help the food industry at the farm level implement food production security ... more  
Riyadh (AFP) Dec 7, 2009Three more bodies have been found more than a week after a flash flood hit the Saudi city of Jeddah, raising the death toll to 116, the official news agency SPA reported on Monday. Forty-seven people are still missing and more than 22,000 people have been displaced after their homes were destroyed or damaged in the November 25 flood, said Jeddah civil defence official Mohammed al-Qarni ... more |
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 Climate change has silver lining for England's vineyards From rice to rags in heart of Iraq's parched breadbasket Mars Meteorite Debate Continues Paul McCartney has a beef with world climate talks One dead in Mumbai water shortage protests: report Rotting camels poisoning Australian water supplies: report Water trucked into drought-hit Australian towns Argentina takes wind power to villages Global warming threatens food supply: Vietnam World Bank pledges to help clean India's holy Ganges |
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Beijing to hike water price to fight shortage: report Hong Kong shark fin traders criticise US report China's approval of GMO rice, corn seen boosting yields Hong Kong markets sell fins from endangered sharks: US study Study: Bhopal's drinking water still toxic Apocalypse Cow: Can vegan celebs save the planet? Farmers could fight climate change: UN food body GOES-14 (O) Moving Into On-Orbit Storage Around Earth Ball Aerospace Selected For Second NASA GMI Microwave Imager Nearly half of Venice underwater |
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SPACE.WIRE Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director |
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DISASTER.WIRE US team to assess underlying causes' of Malawi quakes
18 killed in Rio floods Security jitters as world rings in New Year 11 killed in Rio floods Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought 5.9 quake rattles northwest Mexico Two die in Polish Tatra avalanche: rescue service Hong Kong retail sales rise in November Saudi officials detained over Jeddah flood disaster: report Avalanches kill seven in Italian Alps: emergency services |
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