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Precious
fluid
Widespread freshwater shortages are hanging over us.
Dinyar Godrej brings the challenge ahead into focus.
From
dawn to dusk
Africa's climate of thirst.
Big
dams, big trouble
And they are no way to ease water problems either,
argues Patrick McCully.
 Closing
the loop
Maggie Black talks dirty with a group of sanitation experts in
a Chinese hotel and sees a green future for the humble loo.
WATER - the
facts
Stalling
the big steal
The big water multinationals are eyeing Ghana's supply.
Rudolf Amenga-Etego is part of the opposition.
Running
out of water, running out of time
Unequal control of scarce water resources is helping crank up Israeli-Palestinian
tensions. Charmaine Seitz reports.
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DO we look our age? More importantly, do we act it? The NI
is 30 this month and feeling frisky. And why not? We live, as ever, in interesting
times.
In March 1973, when the first edition appeared
(with Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda on its cover), the possibility of radical
global change was almost tangible. The hope and passion of the 1960s had birthed
us: we raised our fists at an international set-up that solidified inequality,
fervent in our belief that another world was not just possible, but the only
option. Reagan, Thatcher, the 1980s and the institutionalization of rapacious
greed shocked us all. And here we are now: with a needless war looming as
I write, with corporate power squeezing the world like a boa constrictor,
but with a groundswell of popular resistance fighting the cant on every continent.
The name New Internationalist, once an awkward mouthful,
seems more relevant than ever - there's a lot of internationalism about. We
continue to take a crack at enormous topics (this month it's Water)
as well as focusing on areas neglected elsewhere. Much as we cherish our independence
(we operate as a co-operative, receive no funding and are not owned by anyone),
we cherish even more our dependence on you, our readers. Thank you for staying
with us and for letting us know just what you think of us.
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Letters
Taking wing on a progressive thermal; King Bush the First and Second;
traditional HIV/AIDS view challenged; we are the people of the world
under siege.
PLUS: Reem Haddad is thoroughly sick of
profit-hungry politicians in her Letter
from Lebanon.
Southern Exposure
Silver magic at the heart of the waterfall, by Indian photographer
Shyam Tekwani.
View from the South
Is an Indian living in the US worth more than one living in the
Gulf or, horror of horrors, Pakistan? Urvashi Butalia
and the fundamentalist Indian Government are at odds.
Currents
Human kidneys: the new cash crop, a special report by Nancy Scheper-
Hughes; multiple murders of young women factory workers on the USMexican
border.
PLUS: Word Corner
- Khaki.
PLUS: Seriously
Worldbeaters
Already faced by US military might, Saddam Hussein
now has to cope with being profiled by the NI.
Big Bad World
Conspiracy or coincidence? The latest Polyp cartoon.
PLUS: NI Prize Crossword
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Mixed media
FILM: Far from Heaven directed by Todd Haynes.
MUSIC: Hits by Pulp; A Little Deeper by Ms Dynamite.
BOOKS: Bioterror edited by Ellen Ray & William
H Schaap; Creole by José Eduardo Agualusa; Al-Jazeera by Mohammed
el-Nawawy & Adel Iskandar.
Making Waves
Campaigner Vis Navaratnam on new drugs for neglected diseases.
Essay - Revolution
vs globalization
Still squeezed, still embattled, still hanging in there:
John Ripton asks how Castro's Cuba will fit into
the new world economy.
Country Profile
- Turkmenistan
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