in international water day
Honduras has no water
Tegucigalpa, Mar 22 (Prensa Latina) Honduras today marks World Water Day plunged into a serious drought crisis, the loss of crops and famine in several municipalities.
The two main dams supplying the capital are virtually empty and the vital fluid is only enough for two months, said Danilo Alvarado, manager of the National Autonomous Service of Aqueducts and Sewers.
said that at present 140 districts of Tegucigalpa are supplied with tank trucks, but if the problem persists rationing was extended to the entire city, more than one million inhabitants.
Drought also affects some 45 municipalities in the departments of Choluteca, Valle, Francisco Morazán and El Paraíso, in the center south. There
more than 50 thousand families are at risk of hunger due to the loss of their crops due to lack of rainfall, said the Permanent Contingency Commission .
Al and difficult environment is now number about 60 forest fires that destroyed this year alone more than a thousand hectares of forest at nacionalCientos injured and thousands homeless
Earthquake Chile
8.8 on the scale of Ritchert
A 8.8 earthquake shook the country of Chile and left him innumerbles human and material losses.
The death toll from the earthquake that hit central and southern area of \u200b\u200bChile now exceeds 800 and this figure could increase, as the director of the National Emergency Office (Onemi), Carmen Fernandez.
The quake broke last Saturday at 03.36 local time (06.36 GMT), when most of the 17 million Chileans were sleeping, and experts say the quake was 50 times more potent than that devastated Haiti on 12 January.
The Maule, 300 kilometers from Santiago, was the region most affected by the earthquake and where, according to Interior Minister Edmundo Perez Yoma, died 34 of the 82 victims confirmed so far.
below a compilation of pictures and videos of how they lived the earthquake in Chile.
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