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BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
By Stephen Leahy*
VICTORIA, Seychelles - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.
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Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
David Cronin interviews ISABELLA LÖVIN, Swedish fisheries policy activist
BRUSSELS - The perilous state of the world’s fish stocks has received less media attention than the more visible, palpable environmental problems like air pollution. Isabella Lövin is seeking to redress that balance. Her 2007 book ‘Tyst hav’ (Silent Seas) hit the best-seller list in her native Sweden, garnering her three awards, including the title of 'Journalist of the Year'.
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ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
By IPS Correspondents
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.
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ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
By Stephen Leahy
VICTORIA, Seychelles - Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a country's 'green jewels', even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops.
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EUROPE: Privatised Services Back in Public Hands
By Julio Godoy
BERLIN - After the wave of de-privatisation of water services facilities that started across the world two years ago, municipalities in Europe are now buying back the electricity utilities they sold to private investors in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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MAURITIUS: These Women Chose the Sea
By Nasseem Ackburally
PORT-LOUIS - She cannot swim, but Marie-Claite Hector is not afraid of the ocean. The 53-year-old pushes her small boat with all her strength towards the blue lagoon, starts the engine, and sets out to sea.
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CHILE: Water a Matter of National Security
By Daniela Estrada*
SANTIAGO - In its proposed constitutional reform, the Chilean government recognises that the availability of freshwater is a matter of national security. Environmentalists applaud the initiative, but some business groups are worried it will hurt their bottom line.
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ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers
By Busani Bafana
BULAWAYO - A project in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using "marginal water" to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living.
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MALAWI: Green Belt Initiative Taking Shape
By Charles Mpaka
BLANTYRE - Let the rains fail, even for several successive seasons, and Malawi should still be able to produce enough to feed itself. 
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TANZANIA: Community Still Worried By Mine Contamination
By Jessie Boylan
TARIME DISTRICT, Tanzania - Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
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URUGUAY: 'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
By Inés Acosta
BARROS BLANCOS, Uruguay - Marisabel's modest home had no plumbing, like the rest of the dwellings in this poor suburb on the outskirts of Montevideo, the capital of this small South American country.
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AFRICA: Drying, Drying, Disappearing…
By Paul Virgo
ROME - Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is less than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years.
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PARAGUAY: Bottled Water Scare Exposes Threat to Groundwater
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN - It all started with a warning on the quality of bottled water in Paraguay. But concern has now spread about the extent of pollution of the country's underground water reserves.
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From drought to floods, from privatisations to citizen-led management, from toxic spills and devastation to sanitation and conservation, from water wars to water as a human right, IPS correspondents track the issues surrounding this precious liquid.

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AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: A CRITICAL MOMENT TO SUPPORT SUDAN
By Wangari Maathai

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By Supachai Panitchpakdi

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By Candido Grzybowski

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By Mario Soares

THE WORLD MUST BUILD A CULTURE OF PEACE
By Anwarul Chowdhury

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