Drought leaves millions in Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking
After years of underinvestment, reservoir has had to be topped up from estuary, raising health concerns More than half of Uruguay’s 3.5 million citizens are...
Category : Drought
Human-driven climate crisis fuelling Horn of Africa drought – study
Region is suffering its worst drought in 40 years after five consecutive years of below-average rainfall The devastating drought in the Horn of Africa would...
Swimming pools of the rich driving city water crises, study says
Pools and well-watered gardens at least as damaging as climate emergency or population growth The swimming pools, well-watered gardens and clean cars of the rich...
Water ban in drought-stricken Tunisia adds to growing crisis
Risk of unrest rises amid fourth dry year, poor grain harvest, weak economy and likely food subsidy cuts Tunisia has introduced water rationing as the...
Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of them young children
New report uncovers tragic scale of climate-led crisis and warns of up to 34,000 more deaths so far this year A new report released by...
Kenya declares war on millions of birds after they raid crops
Toxic pesticides used to eradicate grain-eating quelea may harm the country’s endangered raptors, say conservationists A drive by the Kenyan government to kill up to...
Former development secretaries urge Sunak to increase east Africa aid amid drought
‘Famine in all but name’ ravaging Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, yet British aid is one-fifth of 2017 amount The UK urgently needs to do more...
Severe drought torments British Columbia, a year after devastating floods
Lack of rainfall takes toll on Canada’s ‘wet coast’ as experts warn of further extreme weather events fueled by climate change Nearly a year ago,...
Shanghai says water supplies ‘normal’ after shortage scare sparks hoarding
People rush to stockpile bottled water amid emergency measures at reservoirs after record drought A wave of panic buying has swept Shanghai in recent days,...
UK’s lost leadership role hurts Somalia’s fight against famine, says drought envoy
Britain is no longer the key humanitarian player and ‘great ally’ it once was, says envoy trying to get support for Somalia’s drought The UK...
