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Indian states' water dispute escalates
July 19 2004� India's government could
be forced to intervene this week in a dispute over water sharing between two of
the country's most important farming states, in what is seen as a test of the
national government's promise to reform bureaucracy�
Govt to go on conserve water mode
July 18 �New Delhi: The Delhi government is
praying for the monsoon to come to its rescue. The Haryana chief minister is
making noises on restricting the city�s water supply, and it doesn�t have a
contingency plan in place�
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=91908
Tourism
drains Mediterranean water supply
15 July
2004� MADRID
- Tourism is damaging freshwater in the Medditerranean basin and growing demand
from water-guzzling golf courses, hotels and aquaparks will further strain
resources, environmental group WWF has warned�
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=547760§ion=news
Tajikistan asks for aid to solve
water crisis
15 Jul 2004 DUSHANBE - Tajikistan appealed for help on Thursday after torrential
rains left a million people without drinking water in its capital Dushanbe�
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15201421.htm
Water Wars�
- California's 'liquid gold' shouldn't be entrusted to private
conglomerates
July 11, 2004� You are driving down the California coast to Monterey, looking out over
the blue Pacific, and your view is interrupted by tugboats pulling what appear
to be huge plastic bags the size of football fields going south. The bags are
filled with water from Northern California rivers that has been sold to thirsty
Southern California and Arizona residents�
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/11/INGBJ7I02E1.DTL
July 11, 2004� Having virtually exhausted its supplies of fresh water, California is
preparing to dip its straw into the Pacific Ocean. At least two dozen proposed
desalinization plants have surfaced in the last two years and are under review
by local water boards and the California Coastal Commission�
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/11/INGBJ7I0OG1.DTL
08 July 2004� The European
Commission on Thursday issued final warnings to nine EU countries including
Britain and Germany that have failed to implement an ambitious new law designed
to protect Europe's waterways...
http://www.eubusiness.com/afp/040708115004.33ng1dri
IP/04/870� 08/07/2004:
Recherche
http://www.attac.de/gats/wasser/index.php
engl.:
http://www.attac.de/gats/wasser/hintergrund/zehngruende.php
mit Quellenhinweis auf: Public Citizen,
Washington ( http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/
)
http://www.thewaterpage.com/religion.htm
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/water/religionchina.html
Water for Life: In
Defense of our "Sister Water"
How Religious can
express reverence and concern for the precious gift of water. A project of the Ecology Working Group of the JPIC Promoters, Rome,
Italy. June, 2003.
deutsch:
http://www.ofm-jpic.org/aqua/dl/deutsch/water_de.pdf
Johannes
Paul II.: �Wasser ist ein Recht aller�
Botschaft des Papstes f�r
Bruderschaftskampagne 2004 in Brasilien
VATIKAN,
4. M�rz 2004 - Wasser ist ein �Geschenk Gottes� und �ein Recht aller� erkl�rt
Papst Johannes Paul II. in einer Botschaft an Brasiliens Bisch�fe f�r die
Br�derlichkeitskampagne 2004 ...
http://www.zenit.org/german/visualizza.phtml?sid=50100
...und dann
war da noch:
Hohe Temperaturen steigern
Todesrisiko f�r �ltere Menschen - Experten empfehlen einen
"Trinkplan" von Roland Knauer...
http://www.welt.de/data/2004/07/19/307112.html
Herzliche Gr��e von der Elbe
J�rg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html