Drowned Town Resurfaces in 6-Year-Long Drought
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Drowned 50 years ago for progress and the promise of near limitless water, the town of Old Adaminaby has re-emerged from its sunken grave as drought ravages one of Australia's biggest lakes.
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Last-minute measures to combat a drought in the Southeast belie a history of inaction when it comes to managing and conserving water.
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Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on  Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts  of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing  three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official  said.
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By Brian Mink, The Macon Telegraph, Ga.  Jun. 1--In response to the statewide Level 2 drought, pilot programs on water conservation are coming to six Georgia cities, and Macon is one of them.
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By Huang Zhiling  CHENGDU: Continued droughts have left nearly 4 million people in Southwest China's Sichuan Province short of drinking water.  Since early last month, Sichuan has witnessed a rise in rainfall.
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The torrents of water that raged down onto this city, killing hundreds of people, are testimony to a man-made ecological disaster fed by poverty that has transformed once-verdant hills into a moonscape of bedrock ravaged by ravines.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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Northern Ireland has experienced its wettest June in nearly 50 years.
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Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the middle of one of the nation's worst environmental nightmares.
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A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the areaÂs woes to a whole new level.
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Politics: 6 September 2004, Monday. Two women and a man from Bulgaria have drowned in a dam near the Spanish town of Mekinenanza, the province of Zaragoza, when their boat toppled over and cast all 13 people on ...
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TULUS, Sudan - Three years after it was burned to the ground, the village of Tulus in Darfur is springing back to life.
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For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns have periodically choked on their refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into a real crisis.
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By WILLIAM KATES  ROSCOE, N.Y. - Searchers found the body of an 81-year-old man and were searching for as many as six other people still missing Thursday after flash floods surged through the edge of the Catskill Mountains.
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One of Alaska's most eroded coastal villages faces a new crisis: the closest river has become so shallow that barges can no longer make regular fuel deliveries to the remote community.
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Las Vegas is having a hard time these days reconciling its big dreams with an unforgiving new fact of life: It is running out of water.
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Torrential rain in southwest China triggered flash floods and mudslides that have left 21 dead, while a neighbouring region is suffering its worst drought in 60 years, state media reported Friday.