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Global Water Crisis: Greece Ranks 26th in the World in Water Scarcity – Greece

Nearly 1.8 billion people, or one-quarter of the Earth’s entire population, live in just seventeen countries which are facing serious water shortages – a problem which is expected to only worsen in the near future.

Of those seventeen nations, which use nearly 80% of their available surface and groundwater in an average year, twelve are in the Middle East and North Africa.

Qatar has the dubious distinction of coming in first place in water shortage issues, with Lebanon and Israel following close [
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Global Water Crisis: Greece Ranks 26th in the World in Water Scarcity – Greece2019-08-08T22:16:48+02:00

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Expedition Fleet to Stop Using HFO

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises has announced that it will only be burning low-sulfur marine gas oil (MGO) on the Hanseatic Nature, Hanseatic Inspiration and Bremen from July 2020, as well as the Hanseatic Spirit, set to join the fleet in 2021.

In particularly vulnerable areas such as the Arctic, Antarctica and Kamchatka, Hapag-Lloyd said in a prepared statement that it has been using MGO for a number of years, before the corresponding legal regulations have taken effect.

The new expedition ships are also [
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Hapag-Lloyd Cruises’ Expedition Fleet to Stop Using HFO2019-01-14T09:46:29+01:00

EU and UNICEF inaugurate Gaza’s largest seawater desalination plant

GAZA, 19 January 2017 – Today the European Union and UNICEF officially inaugurated the largest seawater desalination plant built in the Gaza Strip so far.

The €10 million plant, funded by the European Union, has the capacity of producing 6,000 m3 of potable water daily to provide around 75,000 Palestinians with safe drinking water in the southern Gaza Strip—about 35,000 people in Khan Younis and 40,000 people in Rafah.

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EU and UNICEF inaugurate Gaza’s largest seawater desalination plant2017-01-23T10:38:58+01:00
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