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A growing number of civilians in Myanmar, especially those displaced by war, are facing the unprecedented threat of water shortages as ponds and other sources run dry during one of the hottest dry seasons on record.
After a series of recent battlefield defeats and the loss of hundreds of bases and towns to anti-junta forces, the Myanmar military has ramped up airstrikes and shelling with heavy artillery, causing hundreds of deaths and injuries and displacing thousands to internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps.
As droughts have worsened due to climate change, all civilians in Myanmar face some risk of hardship from insufficient water, but IDPs are especially vulnerable to the scarcity in the camps and villages where they have taken refuge.
The effects of these droughts on Rakhine State—one. . .
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