VIDEO From thenewsmarket.com and UNICEF: UNICEF and the European Union Provide Clean Water for Ethiopia's Parched Regions

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from UNICEF at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/CustomLink/CustomLinks.aspx?GUID=4a41e9cd-08f4-444c-96e9-71f9f892b285&alertid=f31e4b7e-57e1-48ba-94b2-dab2ca5bfb32&bhcp=1

Tigray, the once-lush region that in the first millennium hosted a wealthy international trading empire, is now a dustbowl circled by jagged crystalline rocks. Only pockets of land are cultivated by 3.7 million rural people living among the humblest existences on the planet: Oxen draw ploughs, mud roofs are more common than corrugated iron sheeting and in homes, earthenware pots and bowls still have not been replaced by plastic.

In the past 30 years the biblical landscape of Tigray has turned apocalyptic, as marching deforestation, coupled with the unpredictable rains of climate change, have pushed the environment to the limits of habitability. Six districts of Tigray and a further 72 in the rest of Ethiopia are currently being targeted by UNICEF and the European Union in a 23.1 million euro programme to bring water and sanitation to one million people by 2011.

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