South Asia Stares at Looming Water Crisis
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It's been 10 years since farmer  Bhairu Singh saw water in the well on his rocky patch of land  in western India.
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A crisis decades in the making has reduced middle-class people in New Delhi, IndiaÂs richest city, to foraging for water.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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Millions of people will be at risk of disease unless there is immediate action to provide clean water in communities hit by tidal waves in South Asia, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned.
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Certain regions of Japan have begun taking precautionary measures in light of a growing water shortage across the Asian nation.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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By Celia Hall, Medical Editor and Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Disease could kill as many along south Asia&#39;s stricken coasts as have been killed in the disaster unless clean water and medical help reaches
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An international scientific report warns of floods, famine and global water scarcity. Sound familiar? But the government has yet to edit before it's presented in April in Brussels. By the Associated Press.
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The death toll from floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains and snow melt in South Asia since June approached 3,200 Monday as some rivers in India continued to overflow, the government said.
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Survivors risk water-borne diseases in the aftermath of the sea surges that struck across south and east Asia, aid groups say.
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People in India and Pakistan struggle to cope with the effects of three days of rain that left 350 dead.
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From the destruction that swept over south Asia claiming more than 115,000 lives, hope is emerging in one stricken country that relief efforts are diverting a path to civil war.
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BEIJING, Sept. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In many parts of the world, good quality fresh water resources are becoming increasingly scarce.
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The states of central Asia are negotiating to solve their disagreement over water, a senior Uzbek official says.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Devastated coastal areas across South Asia struggled yesterday to prevent hunger and outbreaks of disease as dazed survivors searched desperately for the missing a day after massive tsunamis surged across the region. The death toll rose to more than 23,000, almost half of them on this island nation in the Indian Ocean.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.