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WORLD WATER DAY HIGHLIGHTS EFFECTS OF POVERTY, CLEAN WATER SCARCITY ON 1 BILLION WORLDWIDE
6,000 CHILDREN DIE EACH DAY FROM LACK OF CLEAN WATER, SANITATION
22 March 2006

Parts of east Africa have not seen rain for six years and six nations there are facing extreme famine. Through events organized by UNESCO, the UN and NGOs are hosting World Water Day today, to raise awareness of the problem of scarcity of safe drinking water affecting an estimated 1 billion people worldwide. [Full Story]

RARE QUAKE HITS MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, SOUTH AFRICA
THURSDAY'S RICHTER 7.5 QUAKE KILLED FOUR
27 February 2006

The quake shook buildings in the south of Mozambique, in the capital, Maputo, reportedly causing many to flee into the streets. The tremors were also felt in Zimbabwe and South Africa. The Save river quake was Mozambique's worst in more than 100 years. [Full Story]

AFRICA SUFFERS SPREAD OF FAMINE, HUNGER
1 August 2005

As the world begins to focus on the nearly 3 million facing hunger in Niger and the catastrophic refugee crisis in Darfur, in western Sudan, an estimated 31.1 million people across the continent face food shortages.

Arable land, foodstocks and agriculture in general are suffering dangerous setbacks, making it increasingly difficult to feed African populations, some of which are growing rapidly. [Full Story]

'TREE OF LIFE' MAKES USED WEAPONS INTO SIGN OF HOPE
11 July 2005

In the wake of Mozambique's long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists set up the Transforming Arms into Tools project in the nation's capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways to secure and advance civil society. [Full Story]

WORLD'S FRESH WATER RAPIDLY BEING DEPLETED, GLOBAL SHORTAGE FEARED
19 July 2004

The United Nations has been pushing for some time for a global strategy to deal with the looming scarcity of fresh water. A BBC report from June 2000 indicated 1 in 5 of all living human beings already lacks access to safe drinking water. Dramatically making the point that our oceans cannot solve the problem, the report says "Only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is locked up in the icecaps and glaciers."

Immediately available, clean fresh water, not contaminated by industrial chemicals, parasites or natural toxins, simply does not exist in the abundance needed... [Full Story]

W.H.O. ANNOUNCES PLAN TO TREAT 3 MILLION AIDS PATIENTS
30 November 2003

The World Health Organization has announced a plan to train "barefoot doctors" (a term that orignated in China, meaning people without medical degrees) to provide care to AIDS patients in remote places throughout the developing world. The plan is designed to reach 3 million people suffering from the virus. [Full Story]