Pacific Currents On-Line
Vol. III, No. 8 - May 2005

Published by Pacific Environment, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the living environment of the Pacific Rim.

Defender of the Huai River:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=16905996&url_num=1&url=http://www.pacificenvironment.org/articles/huo_taishan.htm
Huo Taishan wants to change the course of a river. Only ten years ago, China's Huai River had enough clean, fresh water for dozens of villages along its route to thrive, with plenty of fish to support the economies and appetites along its path. However, industrial pollution has turned the river into a black, sudsy, and lethal flow. Alarmed by the rapid degradation of the Huai, Mr. Huo recently quit his job and formed the Huai River Defenders. Read the story of one of China's biggest environmental disasters, and the difference that one person can make, by clicking here.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=16905996&url_num=1&url=http://www.pacificenvironment.org/articles/huo_taishan.htm

17.04.2005

Globale Zerstörung der fließenden Binnengewässer dramatisch
http://www.pressetext.de/pte.mc?pte=050415020


Quelle: SAFER WORLD newsletter/d - 84 - 24.04.2005

by Fredrik Segerfeldt

Cato Institute

03/23/05

A global water crisis is looming. More than a billion people worldwide lack access to clean and safe water -- with devastating effects: 12 million deaths annually and millions of others struck by diseases associated with the lack of sanitary water. Last year, more people likely died from lack of water than from armed conflicts.

Today is World Water Day and the launch of the United Nation's international water decade, aimed at promoting the UN Millennium Goal of halving the number of people without access to clean and safe water. This is not the first time the UN has made bombastic declarations about water for everyone. It did so in 1977, when heads of state and governments of the member states promised to provide their populations with water. In fact the first international water decade actually took place in the 1980s, to little practical effect...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3715


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Die Tsunami-Flut, die kürzlich die Küsten Asiens heimgesucht und verwüstet hat, hat uns einen Einblick in die erstaunliche und wahrhaft erschreckende Gewalt gewährt, die Wasser entfesseln kann. Es gibt indes noch einen andere Wasserkatastrophe, die zur Zeit Formen des Krieges annimmt, der das Leben vieler Millionen Menschen nachhaltig beeinflussen kann. Aber dieser Krieg zieht in keiner Weise die Aufmerksamkeit der internationalen Medien auf sich. Vor allem die elektronischen Medien, zu deren Geschäft Katastrophen und Konflikte gehören, sind ständig auf der Suche nach Bildern und Berichten, die ihre Formate bedienen.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/5966.php

http://allafrica.com/stories/200502150807.html


Informant: Andy Robinson

Das bedeutet Privatisierung wirklich: Sich das gemeinschaftliche Erbe der Natur anzueignen und es in den Privatbesitz von jemanden zu verwandeln, der Kapital daraus schlägt

Kolumne von Mumia Abu-Jamal in junge Welt vom 05.02.2005

http://www.jungewelt.de/2005/02-05/011.php



Aus: LabourNet Nachrichtensammlung, Band 22, Eintrag 9