Water, a luxury in Ethiopia

Source: aljazeera.com

Thirty years after ‪#‎Ethiopia‬ ‘s devastating famine, water is still as inaccessible as it is precious. While 52 percent of the people have access to improved water, only 10 percent have water piped into their homes. And in rural areas, this figure is as low as 1 percent. Only 24 percent have adequate sanitation. The implications are extremely broad. In an agriculture-based country, water shortages largely affect not only the country’s economy, but also the basic life of people whose subsistence depends on each season’s crops.

RT News: No quick energy-fix if EU plugs Russian gas pipelines (Video)

 America and the EU’s top diplomats met today to brainstorm over how to break Europe’s dependence on Russian energy. There were few concrete solutions, though the US again offered to ship US gas across the Atlantic. But as RT’s Peter Oliver reports, that’s easier said than done.