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Abundant rainfall, intellectual drought

By on September 26, 2010 in rainwater, water conservation, water crisis

On a visit to South Africa, I walked into some Nigerian street hawkers in Johannesburg. One of them, noticing I was just visiting, commented, “Do you see how clean and nice this place is?” It reminded me of the conversation between two South Africans on my flight. They were returning home after a business trip […]

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River mismanagement behind massive Pakistan flooding

By on August 24, 2010 in climate change, environmental issues, floods, wetlands

Years of river mismanagement have made the massive floods in Pakistan, which have inundated a fifth of the country and rendered millions of people homeless, worse, experts have said. The Indus River is considered as Pakistan’s lifeline, and since the partition in 1947 people have expanded the canal system to cater to the needs of […]

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