Marisha
Wojciechowska-Shibuya is Senior International Editor of MaximsNewsWATER (www.maximsnews.com/water.htm).
MaximsNews.com is an
accredited news network for the international and diplomatic community.
With
over 15 years of experience, Ms. Wojciechowska-Shibuya serves as an international consultant for private, public, and
not-for-profit businesses and international organizations, having worked in North
America, Europe, Africa, and
Asia. She is author and contributor to reports and policy papers for various
international entities such as, UNICEF, UNESCAP, UNEP, CIDA, IUCN, Asia-Pacific
Water Forum, Japan Water Forum, on subjects of water security policy, environmentally sustainable economic
growth, and children’s environmental health. A co-founder of the SKeGROUP, she has
produced several coffee-table books with the participation of world leading
personalities, containing powerful messages for environmental and social causes:
Water Culture, produced in partnership
with Jean-Michel Cousteau, Our World in Focus illustrated by Magnum Photographers and with
specially- commissioned essays by such personalities as the Dalai Lama and Queen
Noor, and A Journey in Sight, with
Orbis International, published by Trolley Books.
She
is currently based in
Tokyo, Japan, and serves as International Advisor to the Asia-Pacific Water
Forum and the Japan Water Forum, which provide
countries and organizations in the region with a common platform and voice to
accelerate the process of effective integration of water resource management
into the socio-economic development process of Asia
and the Pacific.
Having
earned a B.A. in Sociology from
McGill
University
and an M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal,
Ms. Wojciechowska-Shibuya is currently a PhD candidate in International
Development at Tulane University
’s Payson Institute for International Development in New Orleans.
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 2008 --
MaximsNewsWATER was launched last year following the 2007 Stockholm World
Water Week and because of our reader's interest in Water and
Sanitation as a dominant global issue for this century.
Marisha Wojciechowska-Shibuya is the new Senior International Water News Editor
who shapes the direction of our coverage within the framework of the U.N.
Millennium Development Goals. MaximsNews
is building Media Partnerships with key organizations and individuals to
contribute both news and support to this vital issue. Please
contact us about Media Partnerships and send Press Releases and Media Advisories
on these critical topics to: MaximsNews@MaximsNews.com.
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TOKYO'S
SEWERAGE: FROM NIGHT SOIL TO GLITZY HI-TECH, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
01/06/2010 (MaximsNews Network)
CAN
CHINA GROW GREEN? EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ELLEN G. CARBERRY OF THE CHINA
GREENTECH INITIATIVE BY MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: (MaximsNews
Network)
MAURICE
STRONG'S OUTLOOK ON COP15 CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY
FRED DUBEE AND MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 14/10/2009 (MaximsNews Network)
MILWAUKEE'S
WATER TECHNOLOGY HUB: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DEAN AMHAUS by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 11/09/2009 (MaximsNews Network)
PACIFIC
ISLAND LEADERS APPEAL TO JAPAN IN FACE OF WORSENING WATER ILLS, by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
25/05/2009 (MaximsNews Network)
JAPAN'S
LEADERS IN POLITICS, BUSINESS AND ACADEMIA LAUNCH THE WATER SECURITY COUNCIL OF
JAPAN, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
30/04/2009 (MaximsNews Network)
FORMER
PRESIDENT CARTER
ON ERADICATING GUINEA WORM DISEASE: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
19/12/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
DR.
ASHOK KHOSLA ON LEADING QUESTIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, by
MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
22/09/2008 (MaximsNews
Network)
DENAN,
"THE MINI-DARFOUR" IN ETHIOPIA: TV VIDEO & EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH DICK YOUNG - FOUNDER OF THE DENAN PROJECT, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
14/08/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ONE
TENTH OF GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE PREVENTABLE IF IMPROVED WATER, SANITATION
AND HYGIENE, ACCORDING TO WHO REPORT, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
29/06/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WATER
AND SANITATION PROMINENT ON THE AGENDA FOR AFRICAN GROWTH, by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 03/06/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WATER
AND SANITATION PROGRESS REVIEWED AT THE 16th UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 22/05/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
JEAN-MICHEL
COUSTEAU WEIGHS IN ON WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, by
MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 26/04/2008 (MaximsNews
Network)
A
BOY'S CHILDHOOD DREAM BRINGS WATER TO 500,000 PEOPLE: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH
RYAN HRELJAC OF RYAN'S WELL FOUNDATION, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
18/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WASH
MEDIA AWARDS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS TO HONOUR JOURNALISTS REPORTING ON WATER AND
SANITATION, by MARISHA WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
17/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
MAXIMSNEWS
WATER HONORS WORLD WATER DAY, by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA: 21/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
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