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...northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide. Out the right side of the cockpit sprawls another equally devastated landscape...
...Friday in Assam, 211 people were dead and 1.3 million were forced to shelter in 1,500 relief camps. In Bihar, 520 people were killed, half a million houses were destroyed and 5.2 million hectares flooded. Farmer Kapelshwar Bhagat, 30, saw 25 neighbors drown in a day, including his 62-year-old uncle who slipped into the torrent after trying to save his own son. Now, Bhagat's one-year-old daughter has cholera and he has only enough wheat to last his family two months. "We're told the floods won't drain from our fields until winter...
...Chidambaram was asking businessmen to pray for rain and warning that drought might cut economic growth to below 5%. And when Singh arrived in Bihar, the state asked in the same breath for $2.4 billion for flood alleviation and $890 million for drought. "It's crazy," says Bihar air-relief coordinator Gautam Goswami. "Absolutely crazy...
...comply. "Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other measures against our country," said Osman al Sayed, Sudan's ambassador to the African Union. But aid groups say that the watered-down resolution has let Khartoum off the hook. Relief workers in Darfur say 2.2 million people need food or medical treatment. Rains have turned overcrowded camps into muddy open sewers, increased the threat of disease, and complicated the distribution of emergency food in the region and in neighboring Chad, where 200,000 people have taken refuge. "We need to stop...
...much fuel the 6-m "banana boat" dinghy required; deciding to head for land, he reached the island in the early hours with half a cup of fuel remaining. After a check of their permits and belongings, the Papuans are given fuel, food and water and, with great relief and gratitude, they continue their journey to Yorke. Based on Thursday Island, Leeman has joined the crew of the Hervey Bay to intercept a 10-kg cargo of cannabis. A week ago, a cross-border patrol of P.N.G. waters by Botany Bay (carrying law-enforcement agents from both countries) produced intelligence...