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Archive of November 2006
KAZAKHSTAN: Fisheries Experts Keep Watch on Decreasing Fish Stocks
BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 30 (Asia Water Wire) - It's difficult for Balkhash-born Daut Shishov to just sit back and watch his beloved lake, whose waters he had enjoyed as a young boy, destroyed and die before his very eyes. 
Water A Precious Commodity in Slums
DHAKA, Nov 23 (Asia Water Wire) - Rokeya Begum, her two children and her husband
Abdul Latif, a rickshaw puller, live in Begunbari Basti, one of many slums here in the Bangladeshi capital.
Depths Of The Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known submarine trench, and the deepest location in the Earth's crust itself.
Floods A Burden Borne By The Poor
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (Asia Water Wire) – While relief operations are underway for the inundated provinces of central Thailand, debate goes on as to how government policies have impacted on rural farmers living in flood-affected areas.
Shiga's Female Governor Leaves Her Mark
becoming Japan's fifth female governor and the prefecture’s first
woman to hold this post.
Decades Later, 'Model' City Still Battling Desert Storms
KORLA, China, Nov 8 (IPS) - When the city of Korla rose from the Taklamakan desert in mid-1950s, it was hailed as a triumph of human willpower over adverse nature. Thousands of soldiers dispatched by the Chinese Communist Party put this place on the map in China's far west Xinjiang province, by digging 600 kilometres of channels to coax underground water to large collective farms.
Dam-Building Culture Takes A Hit
TOKYO, Nov 14 (Asia Water Wire) - Japan's vaunted dam-building culture, involving millions of dollars in public funds, is taking a beating these days with growing public opposition and the election of environmentally-conscious governors.
KAZAKHSTAN: Planned Nuke Plant Generates Worries
BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 4 (Asia Water Wire) – Residents taking a stroll along this town’s sandy beach, strewn with broken bottles and discarded tyres, often talk about the prospect of a nuclear power plant being built a few hundred kilometres from here. 
Why Is It Called The Dead Sea?
Sounds kinda creepy, doesn't it? It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it. It is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, almost six times as salty as the ocean!
Read more at (http://www.extremescience.com/DeadSea.htm)
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KAZAKHSTAN: Balkhash Lake Headed for another Aral?
BALKHASH, Kazakhstan, Nov 3 (Asia Water Wire) - Lake Balkhash, one of the largest inland bodies of water on Earth, is in danger of turning into an environmental death zone whose impact would be felt throughout Central Asia.
Taklamakan - Where Oil and Water Don't Mix
HOTAN, China Oct 30 (IPS) - It takes two people to do it. To keep a watch on the desert road which emerges from the sands and disappears back into the sands. The cabin by the road where they live -- the sole human dwelling that meets the eye in the flat, open infinity of the desert -- is a well station, identified only as ‘no. 27'.
