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Ethiopia's Water Minister Seleshi Bekele says his country will continue to fill a mega-dam on the Nile River that has caused a dispute with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 2011. SOUNDBITE
People queue with plastic jerrycans at a water filling point in Gaza City as war rages on. The impoverished Palestinian territory, under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for years and besieged since war erupted on October 7, suffers severe shortages of food, water and fuel, and medical supplies are scarce. IMAGES
Islamic State militants have closed a major dam, shutting off water to pro-government towns in Western Iraq, prompting families to evacuate the region, according to a Reuters report. The move gives ISIS a better position from which to attack government forces downstream on the southern bank, local officials said.
Brazil’s record drought has dried up once plentiful reservoirs to seriously low levels, causing the country’s most populous city of Sao Paulo to consider having their water turned off five days a week.
Brazil’s record drought has dried up once plentiful reservoirs to seriously low levels, causing the country’s most populous city of Sao Paulo to consider having their water turned off five days a week.
Southeastern Brazil’s drought has dried up once plentiful reservoirs to seriously low levels, causing the country’s most populous city of Sao Paulo to consider having their water turned off five days a week.
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