| In Brief: Nine million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day - survey |
 KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA).
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YEMEN: Clambering up mountains to find water |  SANAA, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Tens of thousands of people in Milhan District, Mahwit Governorate, around 100km northwest of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, are facing acute water shortages due to lack of rainfall, according to local officials.
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ISRAEL-OPT: Dry water holes versus green gardens |  SOUTH MOUNT HEBRON/TEL AVIV, 27 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - It's a hot September day in the desert hills of South Mount Hebron in the West Bank, an hour’s drive south of Jerusalem. A small convoy of four water tankers makes its way along an unpaved road to deliver water - purchased by a group of Israeli and Palestinian NGOs - to Bedouin Palestinians living in small communities in the hills.
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YEMEN: Dengue cases on the rise in Taiz city |  SANAA, 16 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Hundreds of people in Taiz city, 250km south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, have dengue fever and local hospitals are taking in new cases on a daily basis, according to health officials.
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GLOBAL: Overlooked cures for diarrhoea |  DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - For decades diarrhoea has been a stealth killer, claiming more under-five children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, yet it remains a neglected disease, according to World Health Organization diarrhoea specialist Olivier Fontaine. "We made huge progress in the 1980s, but donor investment decreased in the 1990s as attention was diverted to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
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EGYPT: Disaster looms for Delta region |  CAIRO, 7 October 2009 (IRIN Middle East) - Egypt’s Delta region faces a natural disaster of massive proportions by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to better manage scarce fresh water resources and come up with solutions to mitigate the effects of rising sea levels, according to government officials.
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GLOBAL: Cholera, climate change and El Niño |  JOHANNESBURG, 7 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Cholera is not only linked to climate change, it also has an El Niño angle. For instance, Papua New Guinea, an island state in the Pacific Ocean, recorded its first cholera cases in 50 years in 2009, which also happens to be an El Niño year.
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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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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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