AlertNet: Saikh Rustam lives in a part of India where mobile phone reception is available, but clean drinking water is not. If he had to choose between them, the 52-year-old resident of Mousuni Island, at the southern tip of the country's Sundarbans region, would take the drinking water, and food for his family of five. But environmental pressures, exacerbated by poor development planning, are likely to leave his wish unfulfilled, at least for now. Experts warn that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding...
URL: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/poor-planning-climate-shifts-devastating-indias-sundarbans
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