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India drought migrants head to cities in desperate search for water
2016-04-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: No one in the slum of Murtinagar wants to play with Temri and Chinna. The brother and sister dont speak the local Hindi or Marathi languages they came here, to Mumbai, Indias financial capital, 10 days ago from their village, Andhra, and grew up speaking the regional language of Telegu. Jaya Kummari, their mother, brought Chinna and Temri to Mumbai because of a drought that has left Andhra without water. In the corner of the one-bedroom apartment that their parents are renting for 4,000 rupees...
Harvesting Rainwater to Weather Drought in Northeast Argentina
2016-04-25 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In a semiarid region in the northeast Argentine province of Chaco, small farmers have adopted a simple technique to ensure a steady water supply during times of drought: they harvest the rain and store it in tanks, as part of a climate change adaptation project. It's raining in Corzuela, a rural municipality of 10,000 inhabitants located 260 km from Resistencia, the provincial capital, and the muddy local roads are sometimes impassable. But it isn't always like this in this Argentine region...
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'It's a disaster': children bear brunt of southern Africa's devastating drought
2016-04-21 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Chidyamakondo high school, near Masvingo in southern Zimbabwe, has won the national girls football championships three years in a row. But that cherished record and far, far more is now at risk. Students are fainting, struggling to concentrate in lessons, dropping out of school were having to shorten our assemblies and cut back on sport, says headteacher Morrison Musorowegomo. Some of our players would rather leave the school and get married, or they will simply stay in the villages...
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How much has drought screwed the West Coast?
2016-04-18 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: It was only a year ago that Californians were marching into another relentless summer, having endured an almost water-free winter, and the entire western United States was stricken by drought. Even if you dont live in this part of the world, you surely heard about it. Maybe you wondered how you would get avocados and almonds once California shriveled up. Who would make movies once the desert sands swallowed Hollywood? Who would fund Tinder for wombats when the last Silicon Valley venture capitalist...
Answer to California drought may be just under our feet
2016-04-16 02:23:12| Agriculture - Topix.net
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and ex-presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina said recently that environmentalists were the cause of water problems in California because they had blocked the creation of more dams in the state. She was quickly raked over the coals by environmentalists, who pointed out that it doesn't matter how much storage you have if you have no water to store.
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