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Venezuelans on Monday converged on a polluted river in Caracas to fill water bottles and held scattered protests in several cities as growing chaos took hold in a country whose people have had little power, water and communications for...

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Tempers flared on Tuesday as more than two million residents of Zimbabwe's capital and surrounding towns found themselves without water after authorities shut down the main treatment plant, raising new fears about disease after a cholera...

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Unspoiled rivers in the Balkans are facing new dangers from small hydropower plants that have sprouted up across the region in recent years, environmental experts warned Thursday.

Arabic/Nat Working from his hospital bed in the United States Jordan's King Hussein has ordered an investigation into the pollution of drinking water in his country's capital, Amman. Residents of Amman have been complaining for weeks...

English/Nat The World Water Forum, a six-day international conference on worldwide water problems entered its second day on Saturday. Amongst the 3500 experts present at the conference in The Netherlands were speakers from the African...

For millions of people around the world, easy access to clean water is a luxury beyond reach. Up until recently this was also the case here in Sidi Taibi, a small village some 30 kilometres (18.6 miles) north of the Moroccan capital...

Tagalog/Eng/Nat Typhoid fever has struck a town in the Philippines - about four-thousand people have fallen ill in the past week. Contaminated drinking water is thought to have caused the outbreak in the town of San Jose, 50 kilometres...

Siba District, Basra (south of Baghdad), Iraq - June 23, 2010 1. Wide of Shatt al Arab River and Iranian oil refinery across river on the Iranian side 2. Various of fishermen in boats sailing on Shatt al Arab River 3. More fishermen...

1. Wide of Syrian refugees between tents looking at plume of smoke rising from the camp 2. Wide top shot of Syrian refugees using water trucks to put fire out 3. Tents on fire with people running 4. Wide of refugees holding water hose...

Galapagos File - Recent 1. Various of birds Quito - 25 July 2001 2. Set up shot of Ecuadorean President Gustavo Noboa at University Lecture 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gustavo Noboa, President of Ecuador "There is a co-operation by NGOs,...

Lack of chemicals sparks cut of supplies amid cholera epidemic Harare - 1 Dec 2008 1. Young boys fetching water from a shallow well 2. Woman fetching water from shallow well 3. Close of cup being used to get water from well 4. Close of...

1. Wide of sea shore of Mallipo Beach 2. The oil tanker, which spilt tens of thousands of crude oil into the ocean 3. Various of sea wave being mixed with black oil 4. Residents of feet and their foot prints 5. Wide of residents...

Russian/Nat Russian officials now say 866 bodies have been pulled from the earthquake rubble of the devastated Sakhalin Island, in Russia's far east. Rescue workers continue to sift through the rubble of Neftegorsk hoping to find any...

1. Close up of media and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) employees wearing protective masks 2. Wide of media reporters and cameramen looking out the window from the bus in protective clothing 3. Close up of reporter with mask...

Lima - 2 February, 2007 1. Wide of news conference 2. Close-up of President of Inter-ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle, Alberto Pizango, zoom out of news conference 3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alberto Pizango,...