Donation Helps Expand Water Well Work in Darfur
Thirst No More, an Austin-based humanitarian organization, has received a major donation from Weatherford International to expand its relief work in the Darfur region of Sudan. The donation includes a large cash grant, along with an in-kind grant of vehicles, furniture, office equipment and shipping containers.
The non-profit group plans to use the donation to expand its operations in Darfur, w
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Is Water The Next Crisis? Analyzing the Flow of Water News In South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa: “There is no crisis”, a recently common term ascribed to Government’s reaction to what media considers ‘crisis issues’. The term made headlines in the wake of the Zimbabwean elections and somehow have been associated to a range of other challenges facing South Africa and its Government.
Crime, Zimbabwe, Xenophobia, Energy, Water, all easily summed-up under one category
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UN: War, drought and inflation threaten Horn of Africa
A deadly cocktail of calamities -- including war, drought and rising prices -- is engulfing the Horn of Africa, threatening its children with suffering of disastrous proportions, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) warned on Wednesday. ... read more >>
perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region
This paper provides a reappraisal of contemporary perspectives on climate change in southern Africa's Okavango Delta sub-region by drawing on time-line evidence from historical/archival records, field-compiled information and multi-date remotely sensed imagery. By using temporal variations in stream discharge and surface and groundwater distribution as proxies of declining rainfall from the begin ... read more >>
Vanishing Lake Chad — A Water Crisis in Central Africa
Once the third-largest source of freshwater in Africa, Lake Chad is disappearing according to new satellite images — putting millions of people in four Central African countries at risk of losing their primary water supply.
The vast shallow lake, with a surface area equivalent to Lake Erie only 40 years ago, is now one-twentieth its previous size. The region surrounding the basin continues to
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UN official says strong measures needed to tackle climate change
The Executive Director of the Addis Ababa-based UN Economic Commission or Africa (UNECA), said climate change policies were closely linked to water provision.
He said efficient delivery of safe water and decent sanitary conditions was essential for the safety and wellbeing of the African people, especially mothers and children, whose health was greatly affected by the failure to access safe d
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Lakes of the African Rift Valley
The lakes of the African Rift Valley exhibit wide variations in water color as can be seen in this SeaWiFS image. From left to right the lakes are: Lake Upembe, Lake Mwaru, Lake Tanganyika (largest), and Lake Rukwa. This image spans the southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeastern Zambia, and southern Tanzania. ... read more >>
