Water workers on Africa mission
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Twelve British water company workers are to visit Tanzania to raise awareness about the lack of clean drinking water.
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Emergency workers in Mozambique launch an operation to rescue thousands trapped by the Zambezi flood waters.
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Climate change and aid to Africa are top issues for leaders of industrialized nations.
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Southern Africa faces major challenges to feed its swelling populations and to keep its wells from running dry, a study showed Wednesday.
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AMASENIKO, Uganda  - Mary Akiteng has spent half her life fleeing wars and cattle raids. Now she is being chased across Uganda by flood water.
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Fresh rainfalls and slow relief have deepened the humanitarian crisis caused by record floods in Africa which have affected more than 1.5 million people and killed at least 300, aid agencies warned Tuesday.
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Forty tons of water donated by Scottish companies are flown to the Maldives as part of the tsunami aid effort.
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Aid workers use brains and brawn as tsunami relief turns toward sanitation.
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MOUNTING pressure on the world's water supplies has the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand collaborating on a research project to address the problem.
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JOHANNESBURG -- For the first time, more than half of the world's population has water piped into their homes, according to a United Nations report released today, an accomplishment hailed as a &quot;stunning success&quot; by a senior World Health Organization official.
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African nations and citizens to date raise $5m to help the tens of thousands affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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By MICHELLE FAUL  COCORICO, Mozambique - Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock.
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Working in poverty-stricken areas gives corporate travelers an up-close look at global problems such as disease, illiteracy or injustice. It also puts them in a position to bring about change.
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For the past year, Yonas Tadesse has been trying to stave off the effects of HIV with a blend of science and faith &#151; he takes anti-retroviral medicine but also drinks a liter of holy water, blessed by a priest.
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By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI  KIBBUTZ KINNERET, Israel - Wading into the Jordan River, the pastor blessed his flock, tapping the believers on the head before sending them into the hallowed waters to be baptized.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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Millions of tons of sediment-heavy water are being sent through the Grand Canyon in a bid to help local wildlife.