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Contributor [1]
Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
129 [3]
Article-Summary: 

“The taps are dry, only my eyes run,” said a school-boy from Nairobi, a water-starved country. The deadly dip in water resources - on an average 4 out of 10 people in the world live in water-starved areas - has become a grave concern. It is predicted that by 2025, 5.5 billion of the world population will be pushed to the severely water-starved areas.

Category: 
Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/17834 [5]

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