A giant pipeline, 896- km long and 13 fit in diameter, has come to the rescue of the parched people of the Cyrenaica and Benghazi regions in north-eastern Libya. The "great humanmade river"

The garden city will have to walk on a bed of thorns with water supply becoming a scarce commodity by the turn of the century

WHILE air pollution and smog are nothing new to them, Mexico City residents now have to contend with a disaster which could leave them literally dying of thirst. The aquifer, the main source

KATHMANDU'S summer of discontent seems to have set in. As the residents of the capital city of Nepal faced an unprecedented drinking water shortage, Bimarsha, a Kathmandu weekly, reported that the

WHATEVER their area of work, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have made the most headway in involving people in managing their natural resources. Says one NGO activist, "Local people are very