The 18,000 litres of clean water that Jakarta consumes per second are expected to hit 26,000 litres by 2015. The solution? A 54-km stretch of toll road cut through prime paddy land to access the water resources of this salubrious hill district.
The 18,000 litres of clean water that Jakarta consumes per second are expected to hit 26,000 litres by 2015. The solution? A 54-km stretch of toll road cut through prime paddy land to access the water resources of this salubrious hill district.
On the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit near Washington,
President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a major new
initiative aimed at shoring up food security and combating
global hunger.
Energy integration in South America will be a reality "in the medium to long term," driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil's experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country's Ministry of Mines and Energy.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Malian
soldiers who overthrew the government on Mar. 22 have neither the right to
remain in power nor the strength to deal with humanitarian and security
challenges facing the West African country.
Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh, which is caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and rivers.
In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000
southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are
returning home in the midst of an economic crisis that has the U.N. warning it
may appeal for more funding to scale up humanitarian operations.
At first glance Nortey Quaynor looks like any ordinary 29-year-old Ghanaian. If
you spend a little time with him, though, you soon realise that something is
different.
As Malawi's poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48
percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic
commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost
the country's export market.
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