Water Disappearing On Comoros
Personal memory by Sumaila Youssouf Abdullah
2003 CE • Adda-Douéni, Comoros
“When I was young, there was a river down there, and another over there, and another just over that point there."
in Tommy Trenchard, "‘There’s No More Water’: Climate Change on a Drying Island," The New York Times, April 16, 2020.
Image: Hannah McNeish / UN Environment, Global Environment Facility via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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