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After Ike, Texas survivors clamor for gas, food

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Rescuers flew into a hard-to-reach area of the swamped Gulf Coast Monday and ( Read more... )

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Ike's survivors clamor for food and water in Texas

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FEMA bashed for Hurricane Ike response: U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson, D-Houston, said he was told before the storm by FEMA officials that there was food and water already staged at the Ellington Air National Guard base. "Now it's on the way? That doesn't make any sense to me," he said. "I don ( Read more... )

  Saturday September 06, 2008 10:15 by Ron Taylor  Eight tankers are parked on the rough ground at the filling point. The drivers look anxiously at a metal box attached to a large water-pipe that carries a trickle of water into the nearest tanker. Dr Hassan of the Palestinian Hydrology Group explains: "They are looking at the pressure gauge. ( Read more... )

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Alarmingly, unpublished studies conducted by Basem Shomar, from the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry in Heidelberg, ( Read more... )

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McCain suggests raiding Colorado's water

By Bob Ewegen

The Denver Post

Article Last Updated: 08/15/2008 08:44:49 PM MDT

Memo to: John McCain.

From: Five million thirst-crazed Coloradans.

Subject: Forget about winning our nine electoral votes next November. We don't vote for water rustlers in this state; we tar and feather them!

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According to BBC online President Mikhail Gorbachev stated that there have been 21 armed disputes over water in recent history - and 18 of them involved Israel.

"It's highly unfair," said Yehezkel Lein, a water expert for Israeli human rights group B'tselem, who help to solve water problems in Palestinian areas. "We are talking about mainly the ( Read more... )

By Peter Chamberlin

The following article by Stephen Lendman on the extreme water crisis in Israel and Palestine (Refuse to call Palestine “Territories”!) is a good place to begin to discuss the problem caused by Israel’s decision to take control of all available water. This creates a two-edged problem, one is the life-threatening thirst of the ( Read more... )

Friday, July 11, 2008

By Travis Wilkerson

Per capita consumption only two-thirds of minimum needed

An Israeli human rights organization says the West Bank is facing a severe water crisis in the coming months. The B’Tselem human rights group issued a report July 1 linking the chronic shortage to Israeli policies.

A drought, the most serious in the past ( Read more... )