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...human and environmental needs. Like so much of the earth's bounty, water is unevenly distributed. While people in some parts of the world pile up sandbags to control seasonal floods or struggle to dry out after severe storms, others either shrivel and die - like their crops and their livestock before them - or move on as environmental refugees. In Canada - which has about the same amount of water as China but less than 2.5% of its population - the resource has been labeled "blue gold." In parched Botswana, dominated by the Kalahari Desert, water is so precious that the national currency...
...countries. Next on the list were the related topics of desertification and deforestation. Desertification is a feature of every continent, and it seriously threatens the livelihoods of more than 1.2 billion people in more than 110 countries. Stemming from a variety of factors - including climactic variations, overgrazing of livestock, tilling land unsuitable for agriculture and chopping trees for firewood - desertification has made its greatest impact in Africa. The continent is two-thirds desert or fragile dryland, and nearly three-quarters of its extensive agricultural drylands are degraded to some degree...
...return to the rabbinical allegory, Sharon and Arafat may be doomed for some time yet to share their abode with the livestock...
...dismayed by the slaughterhouse that Europe has become as foot-and-mouth disease ravages livestock [NOTEBOOK, March 19]. It is especially upsetting because it comes so closel y on the heels of the BSE epidemic. What would happen if these diseases spread to sub-Saharan Africa? Here, there are few slaughterhouses, but where they do exist, blood and waste run into open waterways from which the towns and villages take their drinking water. MOSES IDA-MICHAELS Lagos, Nigeria...
...causing more than just culls and quarantines on the farms of Europe. The foot-and-mouth epidemic is also spreading fear and despair to farm families who are watching helplessly as their livestock - and livelihoods - literally go up in smoke. Even in countries and regions that are so far disease-free, the virus frightens farmers and changes the way they manage their flocks and fields. Here are personal stories of life - and death - on three European farms...