ASIA is the world's most water-stressed continent, a situation compounded by China's hydro-supremacy in the region.
According to recent reports, one in seven social workers is an agency employee, a situation compounded by unprecedented levels of bureaucracy.
A situation compounded by response lag resulting from the vast distances between points of habitations and at certain times, winter ice".
With this situation compounded by very dry weather over the past two winters, it's not surprising that some water companies have had to bring in restrictions on water use.
Last Sunday, another attack near his village illustrated the gravity of the quickly deteriorating situation, compounded by the fact that the militants were able to get away with their attacks unpunished, he said.
The president of Malawi has made bitter enemies of opposition parties, civil society, churches and the media, a situation compounded last year when his security forces killed at least 18 people after pro-democracy protests turned violent.
The BBC was plunged into turmoil following a decision by Newsnight not to pursue a story on the sex offences of Jimmy Savile – which rival ITV's Exposure later broke – a situation compounded by a later story wrongly implicating Lord McAlpine in child abuse.
The result was a chart filled with deeply conservative records, a situation compounded by the fact that dance music - which provided the two most experimental and sonically extreme hit singles of the 90s in Underworld's Born Slippy (Nuxx) and The Chemical Brothers Setting Sunn - appeared to have run out of puff.
This is a far from controversial judgement on a competition that remains without a main sponsor, but it is a situation compounded by the movement of big names in the other direction.
It's a complex situation, compounded by a lack of access to the people and the area, and by unreliable local reports.
