Two major aid agencies have launched $10m (£6.7m) appeals for drought-stricken Niger in West Africa.

The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported to developed countries is worsening water shortages in the developing world, a report says.

Concepcion, Chile (CNN) -- A tale of two Chiles began to emerge late Monday, with life starting to return to normal in Santiago and northern parts of the country, while other areas struggled with lack of food and water and looters roaming the streets.

Resident of Punjab’s Khemkaran sector are suffering from various diseases because of consuming contaminated water. For the last six decades the people of this area have been drinking water containing excess fluoride.

BEIJING -- A new government survey of China's environmental problems has shown that water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored.

The delivery of aid to victims of Haiti's earthquake is still being slowed by bottlenecks, aid workers say.

SUPPLIES of food and water on the quake-stricken island nation of Haiti could run out within the next two or three days, a charity has warned.

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The body lies on the side of the road that leads to and from Haiti's capital city.

Former President Bill Clinton told All Things Considered host Melissa Block Wednesday that what was needed most urgently was cash to buy the medical supplies, water and other essentials needed to sustain the Haitian people during this early phase of the recovery.

There's good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world's water scarcity out today from McKinsey & Co., commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller and Syngenta, along with the World Bank/International Finance Corp.

SUSPINI, Indonesia — When all else fails, they return to the “magic water.” And take a step backward, every time.

Gaza's aquifer and only natural freshwater source is "in danger of collapse," the UN is warning.

These projections of per-capita water availability were made by Martina Floerke and colleagues at the University of Kassel in Germany.