Water security and climate change: Facts and figures
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.

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Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
All it takes is a roof, a gutter and a tank to lift the poor out of water drudgery. But is it that simple, ask Aisling Irwin and Aditya Ghosh?
With artificial glaciers and more, a Himalayan region is regaining food self-sufficiency, writes Surabhi Pudasaini.
22 February 2010 | EN
Is hydroponics — a system using no soil and very little water — a route to increased food security? Some Cape Verdean farmers think so.
Source: IRIN
6 March 2009 | EN
The Tibetan plateau is feeling the effects of climate change, with glacial retreat and permafrost degradation among the effects.
Source: Nature
Current models cannot properly predict monsoon rainfall in Asia — or how it will be affected by global warming, writes Jagadish Shukla.
Source: Science
12 October 2007 | EN
Anthony Patt, Laban Ogallo, and Molly Hellmuth look back over ten years of Climate Outlook Forums for rainfall prediction in Africa.
Source: Science
9 October 2007 | EN
Lucy Williamson reports on the problems faced by a project to rehabilitate Indonesia's depleted peatland rainforests.
Source: BBC Online
Climate change in Africa's Sahel region challenges researchers and policymakers because the best models around predict opposite outcomes, reports Catherine Brahic.
5 June 2006 | EN