カテゴリー: Water
New Zealand’s booming dairy industry has polluted 95% of rivers in pastoral land – now Māori are taking the government to court On the eve of their tribe’s settlement with the crown, Gabrielle Huria and Te Maire Tau walked out on to the cracked, dry ea…
This year’s Guardian and Observer campaign supports charities fighting global climate injustice. Here, we look at Practical Action, which helps small farms in BangladeshDonate to our charity appeal hereThe cyclones that repeatedly hit his village deep …
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After years caught in the crossfire between the Taliban and security forces, farmers in Kandahar face a new threat, as water sources dry upThe war in Afghanistan might be over but farmers in Kandahar’s Arghandab valley face a new enemy: drought.It has …
‘A crisis is brewing’, experts warn, with contaminated water exposing villagers to increased risk of cancer and affecting children’s brain developmentNine members of Pankaj Rai’s family have died from cancer over the past 20 years. But the 25-year-old …
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The Kiribati island survived droughts due to sacred caves that captured rainfall but rampant phosphate extraction ruined this precious resourceRead more of our Pacific Plunder series hereThe last decent rain on Banaba was more than a year ago.Without r…
Faced with climate change, farmers in Jammu and Kashmir are switching from maize to essential oilsIt’s late June and the field is glowing with fragrant purple as the women in their flowing shalwar kameez arrive with scythes to harvest the lavender. In …
Japan has announced it will dump 1m tonnes of contaminated water into the ocean, sparking controversyFukushima: Japan announces it will dump contaminated water into seaJapan’s decision to release more than 1m tonnes of treated radioactive water from th…
Access to clean, safe drinking water across the Pacific is the lowest of any region in the world, raising fears for the rapid spread of coronavirus Papua New Guinea’s battle against a climbing rate of Covid-19 infections is being hampered by the most b…
A duo in India have been spurred into action to fix pipes to conserve the water supply in KolkataThere is light drizzle as Vijay Aggarwal and Ajay Mittal manoeuvre their two-wheelers through the labyrinthine alleyways of Kolkata’s Tiljala road slum. Ea…
Rare discovery made of freshwater aquifer that could contain as much as 2,000 cubic kilometres of waterAn aquifer has been discovered under the Pacific ocean off New Zealand’s coast, with scientists saying some of the South Island could draw on it for …