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Growing Slums 'Face Water Crisis'
Environment  (tags: Water is Life!, Poverty, Human Rights )

Ben
- 1656 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Rapid urbanisation in developing nations threatens to trigger a water and sanitation crisis in quickly expanding slums, a report has warned. An estimated 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation...
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Uganda Says Poverty Destroying Its Forests
Environment  (tags: Uganda, Africa, poverty, deforestation, wood poaching, clearcutting, unsustainable farming, urbanization )

Rooibos
- 2223 days ago - planetark.com
While Uganda suffers violent protests over plans to turn a big chunk of its rainforest into sugarcane, Ugandans are destroying eight times as much forest every year due to poverty, a minister said on Wednesday.
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Water Wars in Pipeline for a Parched Planet
Environment  (tags: Drinking Water, Human Rights, Poverty, Overpopulation )

Ben
- 1578 days ago - article.wn.com
A SWELLING global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding "water footprint" could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water. The warnings, in an annual report by the Pacific Institute in California, come as ecologists have begun...
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