palani
5th September 2011, 10:24 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/botswana-bushmen-drink-reopened-borehole-154457415.html
Botswana Bushmen drink from reopened borehole
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Survival International says Botswana's Bushmen are drinking water from a borehole in the Kalahari desert for the first time in nine years.
It is a significant victory against the government that once evicted them from their ancestral lands.
The government capped the well at Mothomelo in 2002 to help force the tribe out of an area rich in diamonds.
In 2006 a court ruled the eviction illegal. But few Bushmen returned because the only water available was in handmade sand depressions.
Only in January did a court rule that the Bushmen have a fundamental right to water.
Survival International said Monday the Mothomelo well was re-drilled and a solar pump installed by Vox United charity working with Gem Diamonds, which mines in the Bushmen's lands.
And in your insignificant world gold has achieved a price of $1,900 fictional dollars per oz.
Botswana Bushmen drink from reopened borehole
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Survival International says Botswana's Bushmen are drinking water from a borehole in the Kalahari desert for the first time in nine years.
It is a significant victory against the government that once evicted them from their ancestral lands.
The government capped the well at Mothomelo in 2002 to help force the tribe out of an area rich in diamonds.
In 2006 a court ruled the eviction illegal. But few Bushmen returned because the only water available was in handmade sand depressions.
Only in January did a court rule that the Bushmen have a fundamental right to water.
Survival International said Monday the Mothomelo well was re-drilled and a solar pump installed by Vox United charity working with Gem Diamonds, which mines in the Bushmen's lands.
And in your insignificant world gold has achieved a price of $1,900 fictional dollars per oz.