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Conflicts over water rise in Tanzania
2013-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Conflicts over water are increasing in the sprawling Pangani River Basin in northeastern Tanzania as farmers and herders jostle for dwindling water resources in the face of climate change. Over the past decade, Maasai pastoralists from the northern areas of Moshi and Arusha have been streaming towards the basin with tens of thousands of their cattle in search of water and grazing pasture. Hafsa Mtasiwa, the Pangani district commissioner, told IPS that the Maasais` traditional land was strained...
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