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Humanitarian crisis

Burundi’s refugee camps overwhelmed after new fighting in the DRC

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by Mireille Kanyange

Waste management

How plastic pollution threatens life around Lake Tanganyika

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by Mireille Kanyange
Small-scale miners at a riverbed on the outskirts of Harare.

Mining

How Zimbabwe’s gold rush is poisoning water

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by Tsitsi Bhobo
People cross the Chenab River after the flow of water was halted from a dam, at Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu, India in May.

Resource conflicts

Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?

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by Imran Mukhtar
More and more people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water.

Good News

Progress in drinking water supply and disease control

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by D+C / E+Z
The prickly pear cactus can serve as a source of food and water for livestock.

Agriculture

Cactuses as a lifeline for livestock farmers

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by Nyasha J. Kavhiza

Water pollution

The lake that once gave life now poisons a city

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by Derick Matsengarwodzi
Parveen Bibi in Darkut Colony in front of a water tank that is filled by a solar-powered pump.

Internally displaced persons

Solar-powered water supply for climate refugees in Pakistan

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by Syed Muhammad Abubakar
The palace of Khudayar Khan in Kokand, Uzbekistan.

Central Asia

Soviet-era borders cause trouble today

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by Syinat Sultanalieva
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