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MSNBC
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Water levels in the lake had been rising steadily and threatened to flood surrounding areas, prompting authorities to evacuate nearly 200,000 people already uprooted by the quake.
But Xinhua said with little rain forecast for the next several days, res..
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BBC News
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The diversion of water for the Beijing Olympics threatens the livelihoods of millions of people, a senior Chinese government official has said.
The official, An Qiyuan, from Shaanxi province, told the UK's Financial Times newspaper that people in north..
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MSNBC
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It could take months to drain the water from two flooded coal mines where 181 miners have been trapped for four days in eastern China, a rescue official said Tuesday.
Families of the miners questioned why safety warnings were ignored before a dike burs..
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USA Today
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Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China.
Rescuers finally managed to repair the bre..
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Journal Sentinel Online
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This summer's distressingly low water levels on the upper Great Lakes have a lot of people scratching their heads, but a group of Canadian property owners is pointing the finger straight at the Army Corps of Engineers - an agency it says is largely respon..
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BBC News
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A vast underground lake that scientists hoped could help to end violence in Sudan's Darfur region probably dried up thousands of years ago, an expert says.
Alain Gachet, who used satellite images and radar in his research, said the area received too li..
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CNN
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A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a radioactive water leak and fire at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants and turning buildings into piles of lumber. At least eight people were killed and hundreds injured...
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Washington Post
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Less than a decade ago, this city was an industrial wasteland. The sky could be seen from Beijing's ancient monuments less than a third of the year. Nearby lakes were so contaminated that they couldn't be used to water crops. And children were warned not..
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CBC
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Canadians wanting to do something about the environment can start by drinking tap water, environmentalist David Suzuki says...
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The Fire and Disaster Management Agency has decided to introduce water jet cutters to help carve through debris and rescue accident victims without the risk of sparks starting a fire, it has been learned...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world's poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the US, according to a major new report...
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MSNBC
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When the storm made landfall early Saturday at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, its battering winds pushed a wall of water as high as 12 feet some 25 miles inland, laying waste to villages and killing tens of thousands.
Victims lived in the low-lying..
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BBC News
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China is facing its worst drought in a decade, with water in parts of the Yangtze River at the lowest level in 142 years, state media has reported.
Millions of people were short of water, and dozens of ships had run aground in the river since October,..
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MSNBC
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We lost everything,” said Manuel Gonzalez, whose house was swallowed by the floodwaters early Thursday. “I left without one peso in my pocket and I can’t find my siblings.”
The state of Chiapas, which borders Tabasco to the south, also reported..
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BBC News
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A man has been charged with murder in Australia after allegedly punching and kicking an elderly man during a heated argument over water restrictions.
Ken Proctor, 66, was watering his front lawn in southern Sydney on Wednesday when Todd Munter, 36, wal..
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USA Today
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Authorities rushed food, drinking water and medicine to India's flood-hit areas on Friday to ward off epidemics, as thousands of people returned to their damaged homes and the death toll in South Asia reached at least 575 people.
Torrential rains have..
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BBC News
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Aid workers are battling to supply food and water to millions of increasingly desperate flood victims in South Asia.
Clashes were reported over food drops in the worst hit area, India's state of Bihar, where 11 million are affected.
The state's late..
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CNN
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Floodwaters are putting China's massive Three Gorges Dam to the test and raising water levels on its longest river, the Yangtze, after weeks of floods nationwide killed about 700 people, state media said on Tuesday. Water is being released from the reserv..
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BBC News
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People living along the River Thames are bracing themselves for rising flood levels due to peak at midnight.
Thousands of homes have lost their water and electricity supplies as the flooding crisis continues in central and western England.
The Sever..
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CNN
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Venezuelan police on Sunday used water cannons and what appeared to be tear gas to break up thousands of demonstrators protesting the government's decision to close the country's most-watched television station.
The protest began in front of National T..
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