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Farmers forced to re-think their use of water resources
LEAD IN: Reservoirs in northern Iraq have filled again after years of punishing drought.But farmers in the region are having to re-think their traditional methods as water reserves become ever scarcer and more difficult to obtain. ...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
VOICED: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
CLEAN: Borneo mega-dam 'nail in the coffin' for local people
AFP News Agency
VOICED : In Borneo jungle natives stand up
VOICED : In Borneo jungle natives stand up
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Nearly 200,000 Told to Evacuate From Dam Area
Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday as California authorities try to fix erosion of the emergency spillway at the nation's tallest dam that could unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails.About 150 miles...
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Nearly 200,000 evacuate from US dam area
Nearly 200,000 people remained under evacuation orders Monday as California authorities try to fix erosion of the emergency spillway at the United States' tallest dam that could unleash uncontrolled flood waters if it fails.About 150...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : In Borneo jungle natives stand up
Indigenous tribesmen and women in Borneo rise up against the construction of a mega dam which threatens to flood 200 square kilometres of precious rainforest and hundreds of villages VOICED : In Borneo jungle natives stand up on November...
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FEATURE Changing Face of China, AP focus on town relocated uphill for the Three Gorges project.
Fengdu city, China - October, 1997 - FILE
1. Wide, pan of port in old Fengdu city, Chongqing Municipality
2. Wide of people walking in street
3. Medium of sign marks water level reads "155M"
4. Wide of people walking in street
5....
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Parts of Yangtze river are at its lowest level in more than 100 years
Wuhan, Hubei province, 19 January 2008
1. Wide of boats which ran aground by banks of Yangtze River surrounded by snow
2. Pan of boats
3. Mid of snow and water
4. Wide of boats
5. Close of edge of boat stuck in mud
6. Wide of boats on...
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People evacuated from area threatened by blocked river
1. Wide pan of dry Jianjiang riverbed, downstream from Tangjiashan "barrier lake"
2. Various of dry riverbed
3. Trickle of water running past
4. Wide pan of tents for evacuees
5. People coming in and of tents
6. Various set-ups of Liu...
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Portions of New England submerged after record rainfall
1. "Road Closed" sign on flooded street
2. Pan from one house sitting in knee-deep water to another
3. Another flooded house
4. Close shot of water covering front steps of flooded house, pull out to wide shot of the house
5. Another...
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REPLAY Portions of New England submerged, adds Massachusetts
AP Television
Lowell, Massachusetts
1. Flooded houses and neighbourhood
2. Man holding umbrella looking at floods
3. Flooded roadway, pull out to see emergency vehicle blocking road
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phyllis Russell, Lowell...
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Government water project threatens to submerge one of world's oldest settlements
It's thought to be one of the oldest inhabitated places in the world - but now the town of Hasankeyf, in southeast Turkey, faces being submerged - as part of a new dam project.
The government says the project will bring prosperity to an...
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CHINA: FIRST STAGE OF THREE GORGES DAM PROJECT IS COMPLETE
Mandarin/Nat
It's being called China's biggest construction project since the Great Wall.
The first stage is almost complete the giant Three Gorges Dam which will supply huge amounts of energy and displace more than a million.
On...
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Environmental threat as world's second largest lake dries up
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
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Chinese sturgeon released into the Yangtze River in effort to boost numbers
Beijing - April 18, 2007
1. Various of Chinese sturgeons in tank in aquarium with visitors watching
2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Sun Jian, Visitor:
"I think we should set free these Chinese sturgeons back to the Yangtze river, because...
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HONDURAS: SANTIAGO: FLOODS
Spanish/Nat
Severe flooding in Honduras has left at least six people dead and forced thousands to leave their homes to escape rising river waters.
The government declared a state of emergency over a week ago after tropical storms in the...
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Flood water recedes in New England, cleanup begins
Goffstown, New Hampshire
1. Pan from barn submerged in high waters to flooded roadway leading to homes
2. Pan from home damaged by flood to large log lying in driveway
3. UPSOUND: (English) Richard Bergeron, New Hampshire Resident:
"The...
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Ethiopia-Koka dam shaking under pressure of floods
As many as 100,000 people have been forced to leave their homes near Ethiopia's Koka dam, shaking under the pressure of the worst floods since it was built more than 35 years ago.
Built by Italian engineers in 1960, the hydro-electric...
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Local residents fear for their future as water levels along the Yangtze rise
Wushan, China - Recent
1. Wide shot the Three Gorges dam
2. Close shot the Three Gorges dam
3. Wide shot the Three Gorges stretch of the Yangtze River
4. Mid shot from boat, water level sign of 135 meters
5. Mid shot from boat, destroyed...