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Environment - current issues Tuvalu, in 34 editions.

The entry for Tuvalu published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 11 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
11
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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2001 edition

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The same text in 2000 and 2001.

  • since there are no streams or rivers and groundwater is not potable, most water needs must be met by catchment systems with storage facilities (the Japanese Government has built one desalination plant and plans to build one other);
  • beachhead erosion because of the use of sand for building materials;
  • excessive clearance of forest undergrowth for use as fuel;
  • damage to coral reefs from the spread of the Crown of Thorns starfish;
  • Tuvalu is very concerned about global increases in greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on rising sea levels, which threaten the country's underground water table

since there are no streams or rivers
and groundwater is not potable, all most water needs must be met by
catchment systems with storage facilities; facilities (the Japanese Government has built one desalination plant and plans to build one other); beachhead erosion because
of the use of sand for building materials; excessive clearance of
forest undergrowth for use as fuel; damage to coral reefs from the
spread of the Crown of Thorns starfish; Tuvalu is very concerned
about global increases in greenhouse gas emissions and their effect
on rising sea levels, which threaten the country's underground water
table

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Tuvalu: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/tuvalu/environment-current-issues.

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