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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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  • A stream of water at the Meu Deus waterfall in Sapatú quilombo.<br />
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Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.
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  • A farmer gives water to his sheep in Tubas district in the northern part of the West Bank. <br />
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Despite there being nearby wells that pump water into Israeli settlements, Palestinians are denied access to the water network here and have to buy all their water from tankers. This is roughly four times more expensive than buying water from the network, because of the cost of the tanker transport.<br />
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This is Area C, which is completely under Israeli military control, no building is allowed - not one stone on top of another - and if buildings are erected they are quickly demolished by the Israeli military. Consequently, farmers are obliged to live in tents. This farmer made it clear that he is not a Bedouin, and didn't like being called a Bedouin as he is not from a nomadic tradition, he is a farmer who is not allowed to build farm buildings, have an irrigation system like his Israeli neighbours, or be connected to the water network.
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  • A woman pumps water at a well built by World Renew partners Christian Extension Services. The village has no electricity and is not on a treated water network. The building of the well and pump brought a protected and convenient water supply to the village, reducing water-borne diseases and an enormous amount of carrying water that is a job done by women.<br />
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The small village of Seduya, Koinadugu is in a remote district of Kabala province, in northern Sierra Leone, an area heavily affected by the civil war in the 1990s. Working with partner Christian Extension Services, World Renew is helping the village with agricultural trainining to improve harvests and with sanitation and clean water supply.
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  • Inside the West Bank, there are dozens of wells, water treatment plants and pumping stations that pump water straight into Israel and the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but leaving inadequate allocations for the Palestinians.<br />
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In the West Bank daily consumption of water per capita for domestic, urban, and industrial use is just 73 litres, but as low as 20 litres in some places. In Israeli towns daily consumption is 242 litres per capita. <br />
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The World Health Organization and other international bodies recommend 100 litres of water per capita per day as the minimum quantity for basic consumption. <br />
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This amount includes, in addition to domestic use, consumption in hospitals, schools, businesses, and other public institutions. Palestinian daily consumption is one-third less than the recommended quantity. <br />
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This inequality reflects a broader policy of discrimination against the Palestinians.
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  • Israel Martínez, Tolupan indigenous man from Montaña de la Flor, Honduras. "See the frogspawn? Look, it's everywhere. See the snails in the water, on the stones? The animals drink this water, we drink this water straight from the river. The water in their [ladino] places is poisoned with fertlizers and by the ones who do the mining, they don't have frogs and snails any more, they're already dead, maybe they don't understand. They cut down their trees and now it doesn't rain any more. And now they want our land, our trees, they want to ruin our water, dry up our rivers. And they want to kill us. They are killing us".
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  • Alvaro Contreras, in charge of environmental control at the coffee mill at Farallones, runs a water processing plant that processes all the waste that comes out of the coffee mill. The waste from coffee mills is toxic and highly acidic and in most mills it is poured into the local water system without treatment. The treatment plant, which was built with Fairtrade Premium, runs for ten hours a day and turns all the poisonous waste water into pH neutral, filtered, clear and sterilised water before returning it to the water system. The solids are turned into compacted fertilisers and soil improvers for the farmers in the coop.
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  • Juana Zuniga, Guapinol, partner of José Abelino Cedillo, one of the men who has been in prison for 15 months for protesting against the mining company in Guapinol.<br />
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"The struggle we have here is in defence of this lovely river. The mining company Los Pinares ha been causing damage here since 2018. We began our struggle when we couldn't use the water from this river for seven months, it's essential for this community. This river provides the water for more than 3,000 people in the community... We began our struggle, a non-violent struggle, we wanted to recover our river as when the mining company started work the water turned into thick chocolatey substance that even the animals didn't want to drink. It was sad, we had to start buying large bottles of water. But some people didn't have the money to do that, we suffered seven months with water like that. Thank God, the water is clean again, but the flow is reduced, we don't know what the mine is doing to make that happen. For us, water is life, it is eveything. We have eight men in prison in Olanchito, without any evidence against them, we want them back, and we want the mining company to leave."
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  • Juana Zuniga, Guapinol, partner of José Abelino Cedillo, one of the men who has been in prison for 15 months for protesting against the mining company in Guapinol.<br />
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"The struggle we have here is in defence of this lovely river. The mining company Los Pinares ha been causing damage here since 2018. We began our struggle when we couldn't use the water from this river for seven months, it's essential for this community. This river provides the water for more than 3,000 people in the community... We began our struggle, a non-violent struggle, we wanted to recover our river as when the mining company started work the water turned into thick chocolatey substance that even the animals didn't want to drink. It was sad, we had to start buying large bottles of water. But some people didn't have the money to do that, we suffered seven months with water like that. Thank God, the water is clean again, but the flow is reduced, we don't know what the mine is doing to make that happen. For us, water is life, it is eveything. We have eight men in prison in Olanchito, without any evidence against them, we want them back, and we want the mining company to leave."
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  • In La Flor, near Somotillo, water scarcity because of the persistent drought continues to cause major difficulties for people living there. Through the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua, ELCA has run several projects aimed at dealing with the difficulty. A deep well has been drilled and a solar-powered pump unit set up to pump water from around 45m depth. This water provides neighbours with water for drinking and washing.
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  • In La Flor, near Somotillo, water scarcity because of the persistent drought continues to cause major difficulties for people living there. Through the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua, ELCA has run several projects aimed at dealing with the difficulty. A deep well has been drilled and this solar-powered pump unit has been set up to pump water from around 45m depth. This water provides neighbours with water for drinking and washing.
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  • Jesus Defender of Water<br />
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Jesús Salazar, Suyapa, Pespire<br />
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"I am the coordinator of COCOPDDHHEP. It’s our orgnisation for the defence of human rights and our shared resources, the water and woods here. We began organising to defend ourselves four years ago.<br />
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We need to defend the water. It’s scarce here in the south, and it’s our life. We depend on it to live.<br />
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In 2003 we began to hear these promises, that the road was going to be improved and the church would be built, if we let the mining company in. The municipal authorities, our representatives in the National Congress, they all supported it. They promoted it. But, that’s not development for us. That’s the sale of our territory to transnational companies. It’s against our will and against our interests. They can always find an ally in the communities - people who will help them. They give them some money and brainwash them, but these people bring long-term difficulties for our communities, which will affect our children and grandchildren. It will poison them and rob them of water. We need to be very clear about this - they are bringing death.<br />
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They came here with an environmental licence, which they got fraudulently, with the support of members of Congress and the mayor. But because we were already organised, there was a defence. We have 19 groups organised in the villages around here, and we have lawyers. We won’t let them in. They’ve tried. There have been confrontations and injuries. Twice those rats have come here with their machines. They even came at Christmas because they thought it’d be easier.<br />
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They came one evening when we were planting corn. There weren’t many men here. Everyone was in the fields planting. Women with babies stood in front of the excavators to stop them coming in. Then, with mobile phones, we mobilised more than 300 people to come quickly with machetes and sticks, and we stood in front of the machines and we all raised our machetes in the air. The men they sent were
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  • Los Laureles, one of two reservoirs that serve the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is currently at approximately half capacity, the water level drops more frequenty than ever and the driest months of the year bring the water level to previously unseen levels. The reservoir, according to the national water authority, SANAA, serves around 210,000 people with drinking water. The UN climate change panel, IPCC, have repeatedly predicted likelihood of reduced precipitation for the region, and cities as well as smaller rural communities are in danger of running out of water.
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  • Los Laureles, one of two reservoirs that serve the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is currently at approximately half capacity, the water level drops more frequenty than ever and the driest months of the year bring the water level to previously unseen levels. The reservoir, according to the national water authority, SANAA, serves around 210,000 people with drinking water. The UN climate change panel, IPCC, have repeatedly predicted likelihood of reduced precipitation for the region, and cities as well as smaller rural communities are in danger of running out of water.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
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  • José Santos deepens his well to find water in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras. With ongoing drought and irresponsible management of water resources by commercial agriculture, the water table has dropped and this has brought water scarcity for many villages and subsitence farmers.
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  • José Santos deepens his well to find water in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras. With ongoing drought and irresponsible management of water resources by commercial agriculture, the water table has dropped and this has brought water scarcity for many villages and subsitence farmers.
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  • In a project for clean drinking water in the village of Buenos Aires in Santa Barbara, Honduras, villagers dug trenches for several kilometers and provided all the non-expert labour for the project. Until the project was implemented, drinking water was fetched mainly by the women, many of whom had to carry heavy water containers for an hour a day.
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  • Jesús García Hernández, in the village of Los Horcones, Langue, Valle, Honduras. "The community is affected by a prolonged drought. We’ve just lost another harvest, it’s gone on for nine years. Winters used to be good, we’d have rain. Now we have years where there’s no water in the streams, the rivers, the wells. We need water, without it we suffer. The crops need water, without it they don’t grow and we don’t get a crop, it’s simple. The trees keep the humidity, but man has chopped down the trees. Now the trees that are left are drying up”. <br />
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Jesús stands next to an empty rainwater harvesting tank at his house.
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  • In La Flor, near Somotillo, water scarcity because of the persistent drought continues to cause major difficulties for people living there. Through the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua, ELCA has run several projects aimed at dealing with the difficulty. A deep well has been drilled and a solar-powered pump unit set up to pump water from around 45m depth. This water provides neighbours with water for drinking and washing.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_0359.jpg
  • In La Flor, near Somotillo, water scarcity because of the persistent drought continues to cause major difficulties for people living there. Through the Lutheran Church in Nicaragua, ELCA has run several projects aimed at dealing with the difficulty. A deep well has been drilled and a solar-powered pump unit set up to pump water from around 45m depth. This water provides neighbours with water for drinking and washing.
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  • Salome Anyango runs the standpipe. Kibera in Nairobi is the biggest slum in Africa with around a million inhabitants. Potable water and waste management are not government supported and are resolved by community based organisations, CBOs. Maji Na Ufanisi an NGO focusing on water and sanitation works with Ushirika a CBO in the Soweto and Laini Sapa districts of the slum, supporting the construction of potable water infrastructure and community latrines, which are then managed by the community.
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  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Through the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, large Israeli agricultural projects are run by settlers on illegal Israeli settlements. They produce fruit and vegetables and palm oil for export. These projects are all irrigated. <br />
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Meanwhile, Palestinian villages in the same area have restricted and inadequate water supplies, and many are prevented from getting connections to the water network. <br />
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in the northern part of the Jordan Valley, Israel has dismantled Palestinian irrigation systems and imposes the most restrictive water regime.
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  • Asmitaben carried three water containers to her house. The local water system was supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
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  • Cristi Carina Reyes lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried. This means that people have to walk long distances to collect water. Cristi walks about an hour a day collecting water for her family.
    Honduras_Hawkey_LWF_0893.jpg
  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
    Honduras_Hawkey_LWF_0071.jpg
  • In a project for clean drinking water in the village of Buenos Aires in Santa Barbara, Honduras, villagers dug trenches for several kilometers and provided all the non-expert labour for the project. Until the project was implemented, drinking water was fetched mainly by the women, many of whom had to carry heavy water containers for an hour a day.
    honduras_hawkey_20110615_398.jpg
  • Maria collects water from a pond on the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
    Honduras_Hawkey_LWF_0117.jpg
  • Oscar Alexis Maldonado Ramírez rides his horse 'Palomo' along a stretch of the Rio Nacaome. <br />
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"We're in the middle of the river, in the middle of what was the river, it shouldn't be like this should it? Even when it rains, which is rare now, the water disappears quickly, the crops fail without irrigation, but now the wells keep drying up so we can't irrigate. I've just taken my cattle away, they can't survive here without water. In fact we can't survive here without water."
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  • In Buenos Aires village, Santa Barbara, villagers are working to secure safe drinking water. Here villagers stand atop the new water tank they are building.
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  • Maya Chortí men help a water engineer take topographic readings for a drinking water system. The water system was never built because of threats from local landowners.
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  • Students drink from a water system in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India. The water system was also supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_598.jpg
  • Students drink from a water system in the playground of a Fairtrade-supported school in Rapar district, Gujarat, India. The water system was also supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India.
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_026-2.jpg
  • In a project for clean drinking water in the village of Buenos Aires in Santa Barbara, Honduras, villagers dug trenches for several kilometers and provided all the non-expert labour for the project. Until the project was implemented, drinking water was fetched mainly by the women, many of whom had to carry heavy water containers for an hour a day.
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  • Free a family, Malawi<br />
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Nasoweka Thungo carries her baby on her back and draws water from a well at dawn in M'nchere village, near Dedza in central Malawi.<br />
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They live in a straw-thatched hut, there's no running water or electric.
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  • Palestinians at the spring in Battir village near Bethlehem, one of very few places in the West Bank where Israel hasn't taken control of the water source. The spring has been managed here since Roman times. <br />
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The line that the Separation Barrier is following has annexed significant water sources in the West Bank.
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  • Young girls pump water using a pump in a village in southern Malawi. There are no houses with their own pump, and no one is connected to a water network.
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  • A government vehicle sprays passers by with muddy water in La Lima, Honduras.
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  • Maria de la Paz Ortiz Caceres lives in Tempisque, Langue, Valle, Honduras with her family. Many water wells in the area have dried up and water levels continue to drop. Maria has lost most of the plants in her garden despite taking good care of them.
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  • A flooded area of Pimienta near San Pedro Sula, Honduras, directly after hurricane Iota. The water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Palestinians at the spring in Battir village near Bethlehem, one of very few places in the West Bank where Israel hasn't taken control of the water source. The spring has been managed here since Roman times. <br />
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The line that the Separation Barrier is following has annexed significant water sources in the West Bank.
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  • The end of the road. The main highway between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • A boy cycles through the flood water in La Lima, Honduras, after hurricane Eta and Iota.
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  • The main highway between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201118_13...jpg
  • The end of the road. The main highway between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Daniela Orellana, carries a cloth with all her belongings and waits for the flood water to recede in Pimienta, Honduras.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201120_23...jpg
  • The end of the road. The main highway between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
    Honduras_Eta_Iota_Hawkey_20201118_12...jpg
  • Two women laugh while they work a water pump in Niger
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  • In the village of La Carbonera, near Somoto, Nicaragua, the persistent drought has left villagers without food. Through a project supported by ELCA, a large water tank has been built as part of a small-scale irrigation project for community-based irrigation-fed agriculture. Here Exequiel Viscay checks the tank with his son.
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  • An aerial view of scorched earth near Choluteca, southern Honduras where a prolonged drought is affecting agriculture and daily life with severe water scarcity.
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  • A water cannon was used several times against protestors in the centre of Tegucigalpa.
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle, Honduras. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change..
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  • A boy carries a water container to his house in El Burrillo, Valle, Honduras
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  • A bridge at Pueblo Nuevo in northern Nicaragua. Without the hoped-for rains, the bridge hasn't seen any water running under it for many months. The rains just didn't come. In wide areas across Central America harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing great hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
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  • A woman walks through the flood water in La Lima, Honduras, after hurricane Eta and Iota.
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  • Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • The Rokel river, Kabala district, Sierra Leone. During the conflict in the country, the areas most affected by the violence enjoyed a restoration environmentally: deforestation slowed significantly and water resources were recovered.
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  • Just below the edge of Ma'ale Adumim, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank, an artificial lake has been built for Israelis. Palestinian neighbours are not allowed to use the park, and they have a restricted allocation of water that is considered inadequate by the World Health Organisation.<br />
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The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prohibits an occupying power from transferring citizens from its own territory to occupied territory. 1000 Palestinians were evicted to make way for the construction of the Ma'ale Adumim settlement.
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  • a woman about to drink water from a gourd in Niger
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  • The Rio Grande at Agua Fria, now reduced to a small stream of water and stagnant pools. In previous years during rainy season, the river would be in full flow, but in recent years the river has reduced and in many areas dried up.
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  • Rivera Hernández, on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, is known for being extremely violent and dangerous. Unemployment and poverty, are thought to be even more important factors in the wave of migrations to the US than the violence that affects the area. Here José Maradiaga digs a well because water was cut off for the whole neighbourhood four weeks previously.
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  • A boy wades through water in the Guapinol river, Colon, Honduras.
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  • Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • Cocoa farmer Elvin draws water from his well at La Cruz de Rio Grande. UNCRISPROCA is a Fairtrade-certified cocoa producer in the hard-to-reach area of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
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  • Jean Felix Delice helped set up a local development organisation for farmers in the mountains of Léogane, Haiti. His group then joined with another 16 organisations in FOTADEL one of World Renew's strongest partners in Haiti. Jean Felix's organisation, with support from World Renew, works on improving how farmers deal with persistent lack of rain and the impact of drought, and has worked on humanitarian relief and emergency programs to re-establish agricultural production when seeds are lost in failed crops.<br />
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Here Jean Felix stands at a water tank, built with support of World Renew, that is used to harvest rainwater during the rainy season for use in the dry season.
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  • Water runs over rocks at the river Gualquarque. Berta Cáceres was assassinated for campaigning against the construction of a dam on the river.
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  • A woman carries a bucket to fill at a village well. The drought affecting this area near Langue, Valle, has gone on for nearly ten years, resulting from climate change. The local wells have either dried up, or they have locking hatches over them, to allow rationing of water in the community.
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  • A woman holds a padlock on a hatch on the community well. The drought affecting this area near Langue, Valle, has gone on for nearly ten years, resulting from climate change. The local wells have either dried up, or they have locking hatches over them, to allow rationing of water in the community.
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  • Yanina Avila, 18, daughter of assassinated Tolupán indigenous leader José de Los Santos Sevilla, in the remote area of Montaña de la Flor in Honduras.<br />
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Yanina talks of her father's fear of encroaching mining and logging companies, and nearby ladinos who want to take Tolupán land, and how defenceless they are against them. While non-indigenous areas are deforested, the rivers dry or poisoned, the indigenous territories have woodland and fresh water in the rivers.<br />
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Eight Tolupán leaders have been assassinated in this area. Others have been assassinated in another Tolupán area in Yoro.<br />
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"My father died protecting this forest. They will carry on killing people who look after nature, maybe until we're all gone".
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  • As the water table level continues to drop, many wells in southern Honduras have dried out, like this one in El Burillo, Valle. Communities have deepened their hand-dug wells up to three times, others have drilled deeper wells, up to 60m deep, with special rigs, but the drought has already lasted seven years in this dry corridor of Central America and is predicted to continue due to climate change. Here villagers help deepen a well.
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  • Hector Adelmo Oliva, general manager of the coop, shows a water treatment system, for dealing organically with the run off from coffee pulp. Cooperativa Fraternidad Ecológica Ltda, CAFEL is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer in San Fernando, Ocotepeque, Honduras.
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  • Rivera Hernández, on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, is known for being extremely violent and dangerous. Unemployment and poverty, are thought to be even more important factors in the wave of migrations to the US than the violence that affects the area. Here José Maradiaga digs a well because water was cut off for the whole neighbourhood four weeks previously.
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  • Sea water flooded into an area of Old Havana. Increasing extreme weather events are linked to climate change.
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  • Keeping close to the wall in flooded La Lima to avoid  getting into deep water.
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  • Río Blanco in San Pedro Sula rose and swelled with fast-running water as hurricane Iota pushed into Honduras. Precarious housing on the riverside began to be washed away and people rushed to save their belongings.
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  • A man wades chest-high in flood water in La Lima, Honduras.
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  • Two men wade through the flood water in La Lima, Honduras, after hurricane Eta and Iota.
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  • A young woman makes her way across water in El Calan after the bridge was washed away by hurricanes Eta and Iota.
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  • A boy wades through water in the Guapinol river, Colon, Honduras.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • A man rides a horse across the Carepa river as the waters subside after a night of heavy rainfall.
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  • Juan Hernandez waters a cocoa nursery in an experimental cocoa plot in Waslala. Cooperativa de Servicios Agroforestal y Comercialización de Cacao, CACAONICA, is located in Waslala, Nicaragua and is Fairtrade-certified.
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  • Nomads with camels at a watering hole near Dadaab refugee camp. Dadaab is the biggest refugee camp in the world, housing nearly 300,000 refugees, mainly from Somalia.
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  • Flood waters from hurricanes Eta and Iota in Colonia Sitraterco, La Lima, Honduras.
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  • At night in the La Planeta neighbourhood of San Pedro Sula, the flood waters of hurricane Iota flooded tens of thousands of houses destroying the contents of most of the houses. Fatalities were low, but many people spent days on roofs waiting to be rescued.
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  • Part of the bridge leaving La Ceiba lies in the river bed, washed away by the flood waters that came with hurricane Eta and Iota.
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  • Mother and daughter wait for flood waters to recede in Pimienta, Honduras. Their house is behind them in the photograph.
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  • At night in the La Planeta neighbourhood of San Pedro Sula, the flood waters of hurricane Iota flooded tens of thousands of houses destroying the contents of most of the houses. Fatalities were low, but many people spent days on roofs waiting to be rescued.
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  • Isnae Arroyo runs her own beauty salon at home, here Julie Alvarez is having her hair plaited. The house is barely five metres from the edge of the riverbank, about ten metres high. At night, Isnae says "we sleep with fear, we wake up in a panic sometimes and grab the children to get out. When a big chunk of the riverbank is washed away is makes a terrible noise, it's scary".
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  • Men dig sand by hand on the Carepa River, Urabá. Horse-drawn carts and lorries are loaded with river sand and sold for local building work. These small artisanal operations are incomparable to the industrial removal of sand up-river where 200 lorry-loads are removed daily to be used on large infrastructure projects like highways. The large-scale mining of sand changes the speed and course of the river, creating environmental problems and danger for people who live near the river as it changes course. Near Carepa city, the river has changed course by 100m in recent years, taking houses with it. Currently it is just a few metres from housing and moving closer daily.
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  • Men dig sand by hand on the Carepa River, Urabá. Horse-drawn carts and lorries are loaded with river sand and sold for local building work. These small artisanal operations are incomparable to the industrial removal of sand up-river where 200 lorry-loads are removed daily to be used on large infrastructure projects like highways. The large-scale mining of sand changes the speed and course of the river, creating environmental problems and danger for people who live near the river as it changes course. Near Carepa city, the river has changed course by 100m in recent years, taking houses with it. Currently it is just a few metres from housing and moving closer daily.
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  • A bridge on the streams at the Meu Deus waterfall in Sapatú quilombo.<br />
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Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.
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  • A boy plays in a stream that feeds the Pedro Cubas river in Pedro Cubas quilombo.<br />
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Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
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Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
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When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
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The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
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The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
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Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
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The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
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  • A boy plays in a stream that feeds the Pedro Cubas river in Pedro Cubas quilombo.<br />
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Pedro Cubas is one of many quilombos that is taking part in the Movement of People Affected by Dams (Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, MAB) who are in active resistance against new dams in the region. The quilombo sits on the small river also called Pedro Cubas.<br />
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Quilombos are remote hinterland settlements in Brazil set up by escaped slaves of African origin. Though most of them were destroyed by slave owners and the Brazilian state, today there are around 5,000 recognised quilombos in Brazil. Slavery was legal in Brazil for four centuries and some five million slaves were brought to Brazil, most of them from the Angola area. Today the largest population of people of African descent in the world, with the exception of Nigeria, is Brazil.<br />
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When the owner of the Caiacanga farm died in the 18th century, the slaves he owned disappeared and hid in the forest, one of them was Gregorio Marinho who established the Pedro Cubas quilombo with other escaped slaves from farms and the gold mines in the region.<br />
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The Pedro Cubas community has 3,800 hectares and around 60 families and 230 people, most of them under 15.<br />
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The community farms collectively to produce cassava, yam, sweet potato, corn, beans, banana and sugar cane. <br />
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Like many quilombos, it is remote. For centuries, rivers were the main means of transport, so the closer a quilombo community was to a large river, the greater the likelihood of being discovered and destroyed. The 5000 quilombos that survived are mainly in hinterlands and access can be difficult. To reach Pedro Cubas the river to cross on the only way in is using a ferry that is operated without an engine, using only the flow of the river.<br />
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The lands of Pedro Cubas were partially titled in 2003 by the government of the State of São Paulo. But, despite the decree, non-quilombola occupants remain in the area.
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  • Fernando Alvarez Delgado lives in El Playón, Carepa. "We're already on the edge of the river, it gets closer every day. We're hoping we get relocated by the municipality, we've got nowhere else to go. We're all in the same trouble here, it's dangerous. We feel it rumble when big lumps of the riverbank are washed away".
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