Hundreds of people flocked to a beach in the Indian city of Mumbai after reports claimed the seawater had turned sweet.

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Villagers of Siring in Sidoarjo, East Java, save whatever is left of their property after mud flowing from nearby Lapindo Brantas Inc drilling well flooded the village.

Villagers of Siring in Sidoarjo, East Java, save whatever is left of their property after mud flowing from nearby Lapindo Brantas Inc drilling well flooded the village.

 

The residents had to leave after an emergency dike built to control mudflows spouting from the failed drilling of a gas well, which started in May, also collapsed.

The continued mudflows continue three months after steam, water and mud first began to flow from the area where the oil and gas company PT Lapindo Brantas Inc was drilling a gas well in Porong district, Sidoarjo province in East Java.

For now, a bridge to nowhere.

For now, a bridge to nowhere.

 

For more than half a century, these villages with 70,000 people have been getting a severe beating come rainy season, which practically isolates them from the rest of the world. Located in Bajwat, 20 kilometres north of Sialkot city, the area is prone to severe flooding during heavy rains from July to August.

STOCKHOLM, Aug 25 (IPS) - The world's future wars will be fought not over oil but water: an ominous prediction made by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the British ministry of defence and even by some officials of the World Bank.

Australians need to change the way they think about water, as the days of free or cheap H2O dry up, the conservation organisation WWF says.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Aug 22 (Asia Water Wire) – Just when they thought it was safe to go home, the displaced survivors of the Oct. 8, 2005 temblor have had to quickly scuttle back to tent villages – and meagre supplies – due to landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains affecting the country.

God of the sea, also called the Earthshaker, since he was thought to cause earthquakes, Poseidon was the son of Cronus and Rhea and brother of Zeus and Hades. He was the husband of Amphitrite, with whom he had Triton. He also had children with his many mistresses, for example the Cyclops, Pegasus, Thesus and Orion.

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ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (Asia Water Wire) — Khairullah Khan, grappling with inadequate and erratic water supply that sometimes lasts three to four days, is forced to store as much water as he can for his family’s daily needs.

DUBAI, Aug 9 (Asia Water Wire) – Being a popular campus figure is now within a twist of a faucet or a flick of a light switch away for most students at UAE University in Al Ain, a town in Abu Dhabi. With the ‘UAE-U-Can Campaign for Efficiency’, students compete by showing who takes shorter showers and plays less music, among other energy-saving measures.

Water Wally watches over a reservoir park in Eastern Singapore, popular with joggers in the neighbouring estates.

Water Wally watches over a reservoir park in Eastern Singapore, popular with joggers in the neighbouring estates.

 

“That thing has a name?” Kamariah, a 22-year-old undergraduate exclaimed incredulously when asked for her opinions about Water Wally.

The mascot of the Public Utilities Board (PUB), a statutory board under Singapore’s Ministry for the Environment and Water Resources, appeared out of the blue at various water installations here last year.

 

Artykov, who is from the Khojeli district of Karakalpakstan, is just one of a handful of farmers who persists in planting the hardy cotton variety in this Central Asian country.

He does not need to water the crops all throughout the growing period and these crops would not need to irrigated by water drawn from the already shrunken Aral Sea, in sharp contrast to cotton grown on irrigated plantations in the region.

Farmers learning how to cope with disaster.

Finding water in the jungle is relatively easy--just wring out your shirt for starters. But in the desert, when mile after mile of sand and rock stretches in a shimmering sea before your eyes, the search for water can become somewhat tenuous.

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COLOMBO, Aug 3 (IPS) - As heavy fighting continued this week between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebel militants, to gain control over an irrigation sluice near Trincomalee port, fears are growing over the fate of a ceasefire brokered by Norway in 2002.

Farmers learning how to cope with disaster.

 

Residents of southern Kyrgyzstan are now more prepared to face natural calamities after skills learned under programme, which was jointly conducted by the Civil Social Support Centre (CSSC) and the southern department of the Ministry of Extreme Situations (MES).

 

Holding her shirtends and wringing the water out, she said, “We were without water for a whole month and now the place is flooded. But yesterday after the rains, even the electricity played truant,” she said. Still smiling, she added, “But the weather is so beautiful.”

Rehana, like all Karachi residents, is quite used to the havoc played by monsoon rains. It fails to dampen their mood for rain is a rarity and this despite the fact that the routine life across Pakistan’s largest city gets completely disrupted when the city comes to a grinding halt.