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Technology offers hope in tackling water scarcity

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INTERNATIONAL

Droughts threaten knock-on effects for areas without direct water scarcity challenges, in the form of food price pressures, increased irregular migration from displaced…

Overhauling South Africa's utilities will take time

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SOUTH AFRICA

A longer-term rainfall deficit has worsened the problem in some areas. This occurs at the same time as the electricity parastatal Eskom has escalated load shedding (electricity…

Drought will harm industry and farming in Colombia

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COLOMBIA

The severe drought that has hit Colombia's agricultural and energy sectors.

Politics will delay Mexican water reform

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MEXICO

Water scarcity and management.

Long Chile drought raises profile of climate impacts

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CHILE

Drought and agriculture.

Malagasy energy production goals will not be met

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MADAGASCAR

Andekaleka is the country’s largest power plant and the government has blamed the event on sabotage. This occurs as the national electricity and water utility, Jirama, faces a…

Middle East and North Africa water security in 2030

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PROSPECTS 2030

Growing populations and climate change are putting additional pressure on the region’s water resources at a time when food security risks are rising in many of the MENA countries…

Funding gap looms over ASEAN water security

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ASEAN

The outlook for water security in South-east Asia.

Water management will raise wider concerns in Uruguay

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URUGUAY

The water crisis raises questions about prevailing attitudes to water as a resource at a time of increasing climate variability, and highlights tensions between human and…

Water shortages constrain Iran's economic outlook

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IRAN

Iran water crisis.