Participants in a seminar on the World Environment Day said signs of climate change had begun to look ominous for Pakistan.

Milind Ghatwai Posted: Thursday , Jun 04, 2009 at 0118 hrs IST

People in the remote areas of the south and south-eastern districts, inundated by tidal surges associated with cyclone Aila on May 25, are still facing acute crisis of drinking water, food and medicine amid an alarming spread of water borne diseases.

BERHAMPUR: Water scarcity is a perennial problem for Berhampur people despite huge budgetary allocation for a number of water projects under the State and the Central Government schemes.

The city, with over four lakh population, requires 49 million litres (ML) of water on a daily basis.

Parimal Dabhi

DHOLI (SURENDRANAGAR): In summer, water is a precious commodity in many parts of the country. But at Dholi village in Limbdi taluka, one of the driest villages of Gujarat

May 31: With a drastic fall in ground water levels, Adivasis living in the forest areas of the district are grappling with an acute shortage of drinking water.

The challenges facing Africa to fight climate change are enormous and costs are huge though hard to quantify, South Africa's environment minister said on Friday.

Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said her peers from more than 30 African countries, meeting in Nairobi, had agreed a joint position on climate change, to be presented at negotiations in Copenhagen this December.

Facing water shortage, farmers led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) today held a protest demanding release of water in Western Yamuna canal from Hamida headworks. In view of the BKU threat to open the gates of the headworks, a heavy police force was deployed at the headworks since morning.

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Suresh Pachauri has accused the state government for its negligence and short-sight policy for the unprecedented water crisis faced in the state.

No relief materials reached many remote areas in the south and south-west left battered by tidal surges whipped up by cyclone Aila even three days after the inundation in which thousands of people were marooned without food and drinking water.
The unofficial death toll rose to 178. The disaster management ministry on Thursday confirmed the death of 147 people.