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HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Bleak Future For the Country's Water (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2008 at 04:00:48
| GRAHAMSTOWN, Jun 30 (IPS) - Earlier this month, a private pilot reported to a
Johannesburg radio station that while flying over the Kruger
National Park, in the far eastern reaches of the country, he had
spotted the carcasses of several large crocodiles floating in the
Olifants River. This was unusual because the crocodiles within
the country's largest game reserve are protected from hunting.
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CHINA: ?Within a Generation Beijing Will Cease to Exist? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 07-01-2008 at 12:00:55
| BEIJING, Jul 1 (IPS) - Few in the Chinese capital are aware of the price
their city would pay for staging
the world?s first ?green
Olympics? in August. The fabulous capital of Chinese
emperors
and the epitome of modern China?s ambitions is being driven to
extinction by its chronic lack of water. And the Olympic games
are expediting
the city?s slow demise, according to experts.
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