Australia to Provide $2 Million in Aid to Kiribati as Country’s Drinking Water Dries Up

Australia to Provide $2 Million in Aid to Kiribati as Country’s Drinking Water Dries Up
The Tarawa atoll, the capital of the vast archipelago nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific. Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images
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Australia will provide an extra $2 million (US$1.4 million) in aid assistance for Kiribati as the pacific country’s drought continues to worsen.

The assistance comes following the country’s state of disaster declaration on June 13, after the pacific nation experienced below-average rainfall over the past 6 months, which has led to high levels of salinity in the drinking water across the country.
Victoria Kelly-Clark
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Victoria Kelly-Clark is an Australian based reporter who focuses on national politics and the geopolitical environment in the Asia-pacific region, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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