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By 2035, it is projected that 3 billion people will be living in conditions of severe water stress

increasing the risk of conflict over these scarce resources. 

 Water quality is deteriorating. Water sources – such as rivers, lakes, aquifers, and, and wetlands - are encroached upon.  Tensions over water rights are increasing at the level of the village, city, and basin. Increasingly, many rivers and lakes are being affected by invasive species.

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According to those requirements, teachers must be "highly qualified" in reading, math, writing, education and social studies.  Most new teachers hired this year passed only a certification exam in a specific subject, according to the Dallas Morning News. 

The Morning News reports that as many as 30,000 new teachers may now have to take a competency test in order to keep their jobs under the new interpretation of the No Child Left Behind law.

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KHAYELITSHA, South Africa — Seniors here at Kwamfundo high school sang freedom songs and protested outside the staff room last year because their accounting teacher chronically failed to show up for class. With looming national examinations that would determine whether they were bound for a university or joblessness, they demanded a replacement.

Here in the Western Cape, only 2 out of 1,000 sixth graders in predominantly black schools passed a mathematics test at grade level in 2005, compared with almost 2 out of 3 children in schools once reserved for whites that are now integrated, but generally in more affluent neighborhoods.