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The South African city of Cape Town is set to run out of water in April. NPR's Michel Martin talks to local business owner Nina Elvin-Jenson about how she's dealing with the water restrictions.

The country's official languages are English and French. An investigation by the commissioner of Official Languages finds that some cabinet members broke the law by not tweeting enough in French.

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Justin Lamar Sternad ran in a Democratic congressional primary, and is at the center of a scandal. He put up a warning sign at his home reading: "Trespassers will be WET." An inquisitive TV reporter ignored that, and video of him splashed in the face became an Internet sensation.

Mayor Ray Nagin says 60 percent of New Orleans remains under water, down from 80 percent. However, he cautions that the city remains unsafe, and the toxicity of the floodwaters has caused concern.

Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard offers a commentary on the unimaginable number of lives claimed by last week's tsunami. She asks how can we remind ourselves that the thousands of victims were individuals with lives and loved ones and not just faceless statistics.

Florida and Georgia have renewed their fight over the impact of Georgia’s water consumption on the Apalachicola River system.

In the 1990s, Israelis and Palestinians made temporary arrangements in the West Bank as they worked toward a peace deal. The talks are now in the deep freeze, but the arrangements are entrenched.

Mongolia is now tapping huge natural resources. But they're in the Gobi region, where traditional nomadic herding is under assault and desertification is a major problem. Herders are worried the mines will siphon off already dwindling water supplies, while trucks and roads destroy pastureland.