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Californian farmers turn to diviners as drought desperation kicks in
With California in the grips of major drought, farmers throughout the state are turning to ancient techniques in the hope of finding underground water.
Divining is a traditional art used for finding water, which uses rudimentary copper...
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Workers in Monarch reserve forced to cut trees to tackle beetles
1. Wide view of Monarch butterfly reserve
2. Wide men working on cutting down a tree infected with bark beetles
3. Mid man cutting infected tree with chain saw
4. Men throwing log down bank
5. Mid reserve worker picking up pieces of...
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China - China Suffers its Worst Drought in 50 Years
Longquancun village, Chongqinghua - 19 August 2006
1. Wide of Qing Gonglu's lotus plant field
2. Dried up irrigation ditch in a crop field
3. Dried up soil and lotus roots
4. Field of...
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SYND 16 8 76 THE EFFECTS OF THE UK DROUGHT IN JERSEY
Despite the severely hot summer and the subsequent drought, people in Jersey are still managing to enjoy themselves. While workers on the land set plants in dry earth, sunbathers enjoy the hot weather on Jersey's beaches.
1. various ms...
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Crops suffer as parts of the Balkans hit by worst drought in four decades
Trstenica, 20 kilometres south of Belgrade, Serbia
1. Wide of farmer riding a bicycle past scorched fields
2. Wide of cut down corn (maize) field
3. Close up of scorched corn crop
4. Various of farmer on a tractor cutting bad corn for...
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UN humanitarian official appeals to Arab countries to help East Africa
Baidoa
1. UN Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik, getting out of the plane in Baidoa Airport, greeting officials
2. Bondevik walking with the Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in the UN...
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Operators of recreational businesses on western reservoirs worry that ongoing drought concerns will keep boaters and other visitors from flocking to the popular summer attractions. (April 18)
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SOUNDBITE: Gail Kaiser, Owner, Las Vegas Boat Harbor
"We get calls from all over the world that say 'we can't come to Lake Mead because Lake Mead's a mud hole.' Well that's not...
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Six African heads of state meet for peace talks
1. Wide of exterior of the Grand Regency Hotel, venue for talks by Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
2. Arrival of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
3. Mid of delegates talking
4. Mid of banner reading "IGAD 11th Summit...
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Donors' conference planned to raise US$1.6B for East Africa famine
1. Wide of press conference
2. UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) logo
3. Monitor showing drought conference advert
4. Various journalists at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of Food,...
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Drought-stricken Somalis prepare to break fast with food from aid centres
1. Various of people displaced by drought waiting to receive food
2. Various of women and children
3. Various of women queuing to get food
4. Various of women receiving rice in buckets
5. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Sahra Abukar, Kitchen...
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A plane carrying 10 tons of urgently needed aid arrives
1. Mid pan camp in Mogadishu
2. Mid children seated on floor of tent
3. Mid woman at entrance to tent
4. Various child lying on ground, flies around
5. Woman and baby lying on ground
6. Close up woman with eyes closed
7. Mid of camp
8....
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Guatemalans suffer the effects of the drought
1. Three shots of Guatemalan farmer Jesus Ramirez visiting his corn plantation
2. UPSOUND (Spanish) Jesus Ramirez, farmer (Campesino)
"Right now we are suffering now that the milpas are lost, in other years I have got corn for the whole...
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Farmers in El Salvador lose 75-100% of crops to drought
1. Various of farmer gathering dried crops
2. Various of farmers planting corn seeds
3. Medium shot of farmer walking through fields of lost crops
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Isabel Martinez, local farmer:
"The land is pretty dried. We...
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Food and water shortages hit Nepal's poorest farmers
The hills and fields of this district bear the scars of damaged crops and dry rivers.
Nepal is one of the world's poorest countries, with more than 30 per cent of its people living below the poverty line.
The country's rural poor,...
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FEARS OF STARVATION AS DROUGHT HITS MAIZE CROP
As Muchafa Garavaziva walks through his field of maize he sees only a poor crop that will sustain neither him nor his family.
The 70 year old resettled farmer is one of many suffering from Zimbabwe's severe food shortages - the country...
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Heatwave strikes Sth Italy, Nth Italy in drought
1. Pan Vatican bridge down to the Tiber river
2. St. Peter's cupola
3. Various of River Tiber
4. Various people in Rome's historic centre
5. Close-up fountain
4. Wide shot horse and carriage
5. Cutaway tourists
6. Wide shot of...
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Water train brings relief to drought stricken areas
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4036061LEAD-IN:Many trains pull into Latur's railroad station but none is as eagerly awaited as the water train."Jaldoot" or the Messenger of Water – brings millions of litres of the precious...
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Water train brings relief to drought stricken areas
LEAD IN:Many trains pull into Latur's railroad station but none is as eagerly awaited as the water train."Jaldoot" or the Messenger of Water – brings millions of litres of the precious liquid that the drought–plagued central...
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North Korea said to be facing severe drought
North Korea said on Wednesday it has been hit by its worst drought in a century, resulting in extensive damage to agriculture.The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the drought caused about 30 percent of its rice paddies to...
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India suffers from drought, govt criticised
Western Indian Maharashtra state's Thane district is in the grips of one of the worst droughts in decades.Another year of severe water shortages has left millions struggling in at least 13 Indian states, and experts predict the situation...
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Thailand suffers worst drought in decades
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4039057LEAD IN: As drought continues to grip Thailand, locals who survive from fishing and tourism are struggling to make ends meet. Bung Boraphet, Thailand's largest lake, has dried up - driving away...
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The human cost of India's crippling drought
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4038341LEAD IN:A relentless drought in parts of India has devastated crops and cattle leaving many farmers in heavy debt and workers jobless. Some 400 farmers have committed suicide so far this year in...
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The human cost of India's crippling drought
LEAD IN:A relentless drought in parts of India has devastated crops and cattle leaving many farmers in heavy debt and workers jobless. Some 400 farmers have committed suicide so far this year in the parched Marathwada region – home...
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Flooded Venezuela town re-emerges in drought
For decades, the only sign of the Venezuelan drowned village of Potosi has been a church spire sticking up in a lake.But as a severe drought dried out Venezuela this year, the town on the South American country's eastern edge began to...