Word: regionalization
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...Toowoomba's residents are slowly running out of water, and have been for the last 15 years, along with nearly everyone else in this corner of eastern Australia. It's the region's worst and longest-lasting drought in over a century, and dead flower beds and brown football fields are the least of their worries. Toowoomba was the go-to city for a large rural area, including nearby Darling Downs, a fertile farmland, until the rain went away and never came back. "We've been in water restriction in Toowoomba since 1992," says Dianne Thorley, the city's mayor...
...seeding than others. Up to now, the right weather-measuring tools have never been in the right program at the right time. Starting in November, they will be. A project staff of about 30 will use a recently installed CP2 Doppler radar to analyze what's happening in the regions' clouds before, during and after silver iodide "seeds" are sprayed into them from planes. Working in tandem with other ground radars and forecasting equipment, the technology will be able to take a 3-D read of the atmosphere similar to a body scan. Not only will this mean better information...
...farmers around Toowoomba already know what nature is producing in their specific region: zilch. More specifically, zilch, with no end in sight - and it has pushed many local farmers past the point of coping. "The rural communities have suffered the most," says Toowoomba Mayor Thorley. "When things get really bad, people get depressed and anxious about what's happening. It makes it difficult for families." In the 1990s, an outreach group called the Bush Connection was established to ease the the social impact of the drought: alcoholism, domestic violence and suicide...
...think especially with the modernization of Turkey,” he said, “our long history of secularism is a good example in the region...
...wave of suicide bombings and other attacks around Pakistan in recent days. Many foreign observers believe that Musharraf's days are numbered as leader of Pakistan - raising the attendant issue of who could possibly replace America's primary ally in the war against terror in this critical region...