Essay: While clean water isn’t a partisan issue, it is a faith issue
In an article first published on Religion News Service, CASSANDRA CARMICHAEL, executive director of National Religious Partnership for the Environment in the US, says the removal of clean water protections for wetlands, such as the US Supreme Court is considering, leaves too much to chance…
Flood risk for one million in Phnom Penh as wetlands destroyed
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation More than one million people in Phnom Penh face the risk of increased flooding and loss of livelihoods as wetlands in the Cambodian capital are destroyed to build apartments and industries, human rights groups warned on Monday. Developments – including the ING City township – will reduce the Tompoun wetlands to […]
Uganda wants people to leave flooded wetlands – and not come back
Entebbe, UgandaThomson Reuters Foundation For the last decade, Silus Musasizi has lived on a wetland on the shores of Lake Victoria. For most of that time, Uganda’s government has been trying to chase him away. Now, it is the water itself that has driven him from his small house on the edge of Entebbe, […]