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China Devastated by Floods
Huge floods in southern China have killed at least 132 people and displaced 800,000, the government said today as the annual storm season picked up ferocity.
Local media showed images of people abandoning their homes in rubber dinghies in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, one of the worst-hit areas.
Location
China
Missouri River Flooding
The swollen Missouri River washed over and punched through levees in northwestern Missouri early Sunday, spurring authorities to urge about 250 nearby residents to leave their homes.
Heavy rainfall in Montana and North Dakota, combined with melting snow from the Rocky Mountains, have sent the Missouri surging downstream, according to the National Weather Service. The 6 to 12 inches of rainfall in the upper Missouri basin in the past few weeks is nearly a normal year's worth, and runoff from the mountain snowpack is 140% of normal, the agency says.
Location
United States
MAP OF THE DAY: The World Water Crisis
This marks another year when water gets less attention than oil, and the coming crisis becomes more severe.
Through the Middle East and parts of America and Asia, water is a physical scarcity.
In Africa and other parts of the southern hemisphere, water is an economic scarcity, which means an adequate supply is not economically feasible.
Vaal River water crisis looms
Acidic seepage from waste on abandoned mines threatens supply.
A water time-bomb is ticking for millions of users of water from the Vaal River (South Africa) - by 2014, it will not be suitable for human consumption.
Researchers said the problem was caused by acidic water seeping from waste on abandoned mines and by the discharging of untreated acidic mine water into rivers and streams tributary to the Vaal River system.
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ReplyWater crisis in Yemen
Photojournalist Matilde Gattoni went into Yemen undercover to report on the current water crisis and the burden it places on women. Yemen's population is expected to double by 2035. The wells of the capital, Sana'a, are expected to dry out by 2015, partly due to illegal drilling to water qat plantations.
Click here to view the audio slideshow: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audioslideshow/2010/sep/20/water-y...
ReplyCrisis - Global Water Crises
Javascript is required to view this map.Peter Brabeck - Water Crisis
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