About 4,500 children die each day from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation facilities. – UNICEF ‘A mother in Delhi, India, helps her son drink from a public tanker on World Water Day 2007′, photo on BBC News. World Water Day 2008 Events happening across the globe draw international attention to a lack of […]
International Year Of Sanitation 2008
January 10, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The United Nations General Assembly declares 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. This declaration will assist progress on one of the eight Millennium Development Goals that aims to provide sanitation infrastructure to half of all people in the world without such by 2015. Several UN partners are supporting this measure including UNICEF, UNEP, UNDESA, UNDP, UN-Habitat, UN-Water, to name a few. Over 40% of […]
Nepal Discontent Over Climate Change Talks in Bali
December 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Nepal, land on the edge of the mighty Himalayas. Although rather small (only the size of Arkansas), Nepal is known the world over for Mount Everest, highest mountain in the world (elevation 29,029 feet). As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change wraps-up in Bali, Nepali officials are worried water supplies may become even more […]
UN GEO-4 Report Released, Outlook for Water Dire
October 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment
No, it is not a radical environmental group sounding the call this time around. It is the United Nations – Environment Programme, with the recent release of the report: UNEP Global Environmental Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO-4). This report assesses the state of the planet since 1987, and was drafted by over 390 experts in […]
Water For Life – UN International Decade of Action (2005 – 2015)
September 30, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The primary goal of the ‘Water for Life’ Decade is to promote efforts to fulfill international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015 – a decade of action. The UN has coordinated the International Decade for Action (2005 – 2015) as a way to implement three goals related to international water issues: To […]
