Sentence examples for tuvalu from inspiring English sources

Observers blame the shortage on the changing weather patterns and rising sea levels associated with climate change and warn they could be a sign of things to come for the whole region.Freshwater supplies had already been running dangerously low for the 11,000 people who live on Tuvalu.

Not least those from small island nations, like Kiribati and Tuvalu, which are likely to disappear beneath the rising seas long before the Saudis have drained their last well.

"Tuvalu is probably the front line, alongside the Maldives".In fact there is probably no country is closer to the firing line in the war against global climate change than Tuvalu which is not to say that it stands much chance of firing back.

Even a €90m ($119m) aid package to tackle regional climate change pledged earlier this year by the European Union has done little to tamp down its fears.The leaders of countries as far afield as Barbados and Grenada joined Tuvalu in raising the alarm over the issue in a series of impassioned speeches to the United Nations General Assembly last month.

The drought caused by nearly a year of sparse rainfall has been made worse rising sea levels, which have contaminated the low-lying country's underground aquifers with salt water.The crisis is not confined to Tuvalu, which has long lamented that climate change was threatening to turn it into a modern-day Atlantis.

And bringing Fiji to its knees would also weaken some even smaller island states, such as Tuvalu and Kiribati.Under the Rabuka government, Fiji left the Commonwealth in disgrace and tried to shift away from traditional trading links with Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands lie at or near sea level, and are at risk of being engulfed by seas that are rising by 5 millimetres a year.

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Ten countries are new participants, including Bosnia and Herzegovina (after a ten-year break), the Bahamas, Angola (which carried off the prize for best pavilion), Tuvalu and the Holy See.

Australia's government has already turned down a request to offer citizenship to the 12,000 people of Tuvalu, another small, drowning island; so a few hundred thousand Maldivians knocking on rich-country doors seem likely to get even shorter shrift.

The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency after a fresh water shortage forced it to shutter its schools and hospitals and begin water rationing across the country.