| KENYA: What is behind the Mau controversy? |
 NAIROBI, 29 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The continued degradation of the Mau complex - Kenya's largest water catchment area - threatening everything from the spectacular annual migration of the wildebeest to pastoralism, agriculture and hydro-power generation, has dominated public debate for the better part of 2009. The government’s plan to evict the illegal settlers has added to the controversy.
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PHILIPPINES: Flood survivors face misery and hardship |  MANILA, 29 September 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Evacuation centre volunteer Candy Regadillo calls on a long line of hungry and tired flood survivors to be patient as she hands out dwindling relief items, three days after flooding in Manila and surrounding areas left more than half a million displaced and nearly two million affected.
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NEPAL: Kathmandu faces worsening water crisis |  KATHMANDU, 24 September 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Fetching drinking water is a daily ordeal for schoolgirl Sumitra Maharjan, who queues from dawn for hours to access a local public tap.
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JORDAN: Declining rainfall, population growth spur search for water |  AMMAN, 23 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Declining rainfall levels in water scarce and debt-ridden Jordan, the population of which is growing rapidly, have given further urgency to the search for alternative water sources.
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IRAQ: Iraq’s marshlands in peril again |  BAGHDAD, 21 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Farmers and fisherman in Iraq’s southern marshlands have had mixed fortunes in the past couple of decades, but livelihood prospects are now looking increasingly bleak.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Battling to contain cholera, influenza, diarrhoea outbreaks |  BANGKOK, 17 September 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Health authorities and aid workers are racing to contain outbreaks of cholera, influenza and diarrhoea in three provinces in Papua New Guinea which have killed over 100 people and infected over 6,000, officials say.
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KENYA: Plea to donors over El Nino |  NAIROBI, 17 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Kenya has appealed for help to combat drought and food shortages as humanitarian actors fine-tune disaster reduction preparedness ahead of El Nino-related rains, expected across the country between September and December.
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NIGERIA: Officials fear cholera resurgence in north |  KANO, 16 September 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Floods in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa state have left over 2,000 people displaced, many of them with no access to clean drinking water, leaving officials worried about a potential cholera outbreak.
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Analysis: Looming water crisis in Gaza |  GAZA CITY, 15 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Unless urgent action is taken, the supply of water fit for human use in the Gaza Strip will be depleted in 5-10 years, according to the Gaza Coastal Municipal Water Utility (CMWU) and UN agencies working there.
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JORDAN: How best to save the Dead Sea? |  AMMAN, 14 September 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Jordan's plan to save the shrinking Dead Sea by channelling more water to it from the Red Sea could have a detrimental environmental impact, environmentalists have warned. However, not doing anything could lead to an environmental, economic and human catastrophe, say experts.
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