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World Water Day to Highlight the Global Water Crisis
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 … Continue reading
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UN and 2008 – International Year Of Sanitation
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 … Continue reading
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Nepal Discontent Over Climate Change Talks in Bali
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 … Continue reading
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UN GEO-4 Report Released and Outlook for Water Dire
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 … Continue reading
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Water For Life – UN International Decade of Action (2005 – 2015)
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 … Continue reading
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