[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] South Africa's clean water shortage is serious and it's getting...Nevin, Tom
In response to these water restrictions350Africais calling on the government to declare the water scarcity crisis as a state of emergency. “The current drought period will not be alleviated by placing water restrictions on communities. Rather, fossil fuel industries, the largest users and po...
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根据倒数第二段“Over the years, John has taken on many big jobs. He developed a greenhouse — like facility that treated sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington. He also designed an eco-machine to clean canal...
Cape Town's water crisis“Day Zero" is approaching as South Africa's showcase city of Cape Town prepares to turn off most water taps amid the worst drought in a century. Tensions among the four million residents are highlighting a class divide in the country with one of the world's highe...
Solutions such as recycling and reuse cannot deal with this much waste, saysMarcus Eriksen, a marine scientist and cofounder of the 5 Gyres Institute, which studies plastic pollution. “There have to be drastic cuts in production,” he says, especially of single-use plastics. ...
If water is not managed better, today's crisis will become a disaster. By the middle of the century more than half of the planet will live in areas of “water stress", where supplies cannot continuously 43demand. Farmland will turn to desert and millions will be foreed to flee in ...
Ravaged by years of conflict, there has barely been enough peacetime in the world’s newest nation to begin building. Only 200 kilometers of its roads are paved. Now, South Sudan is dealing with biblical floods that began as early as June and were made worse by the climate crisis, which...
More and more wealthy Indians and Brazilians seem keen to sport a “rock” to show just how well they are doing. And the shrewd Oppenheimers do not seem to be getting out of the business because its future looks bleak. There is apparently no family member who wants to take on diamond ...