Reuters: US Governors fueding over water shortage 30 October

Now Missouri's governor has declared a state of emergency and President Bush has approved federal assistance for the state...as the storm continues moving northeast.

It is a story of one woman and a little girl who live in the most arid part of the Rajasthan state where the annual rainfall varies from 10 to 40 cm. It is quite often erratic, so much so that the entire rainfall of the year may fall on a single day and the rest of the year may be dry. In India, water is solely a woman’s problem. From the time she is able to walk, she learns that it is her job to find and get water for the entire household. In her lifetime, she would have walked more than 1,000 miles to get water.

Hayfever affects nearly 20 million Japanese, especially in big cities like Tokyo.

The tiny landlocked kingdom of Lesotho, one of Africa's poorest nations, is struggling to cope with its worst drought for 30 years. By UN count more than 400,000 people in a land of only 1.9 million face food shortages due to crop failure. A state of emergency is expected to be declared this week. A voiced report from the mountainous country completely surrounded by South Africa.

When unprecedented rainfall caused disaster in Mumbai it wasn't only the working class citizens who suffered. A Bollywood director talks about his loss during the extreme weather.

With low-lying states like the Maldives and Tuvalu already suffering the impact of rising seas and storm surges, island nations at the Bali conference on climate change are warning that even the strictest targets to cut gas emissions by industrialised countries still do not go far enough.

The fire comes as Chile is suffering its worst drought in decades. Rainfall has dropped to one of its lowest levels in half a century.

Pervez Musharraf, who emerged as a crucial U.S. ally in a "war on terror" has seen his popularity plummet in the last year as he reeled from one political crisis to another. Speakers: State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack Joseph Cirincione of the Center for American Progress.

The storm is expected to spare Florida and critical U.S. oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.