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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 2008 -- MaximsNewsWATER
was launched last year following the 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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Jean-Michel
Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society
Photo credit: Tom Ordway, Ocean Futures Society and KQED
JEAN-MICHEL
COUSTEAU WEIGHS IN ON WATER AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
26/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
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WATER NEWS •••••
TO
ACHIEVE THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, PARTNERING WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS
CRUCIAL, by KATHY SHANDLING:
09/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NATURE'S
NATURAL WATER AND WASTEWATER FILTERS, by KATHY SHANDLING:
08/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ENDORSERS
OF THE CEO WATER MANDATE URGE G8 GOVERNMENTS TO TAKE ACTION, by KATHY SHANDLING:
08/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
BUSINESS
NEWS AMERICAS REPORT ON THE WATER SECTOR, by KATHY SHANDLING:
07/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
BOTTLED WATER GLOBAL CHALLENGE, by KATHY SHANDLING:
07/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NATIONAL
DRINKING WATER WEEK, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
06/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
PAUL
SIMON "WATER FOR THE POOR" ACT RECEIVES FUNDING, by KATHY SHANDLING:
04/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
A
"WATER FOR PEOPLE" CORPORATE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
02/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
SURGING
FOOD PRICES NOT JUST THREAT, BUT ALSO OPPORTUNITY, SAYS SENIOR UN OFFICIAL:
01/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WATER
AND SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY DEEMED CRUCIAL TO MEETING
DEVELOPMENT TARGETS IN ASIA-PACIFIC, ACCORDING TO NEW UN REPORT:
01/05/2008 (MaximsNews Network)

Professor
Muhammad Yunus (right) and Denis Bilodeau, Vice President,
Orange
County Water District Photo © Orange County
Water District
WATER,
FINANCE SUSTAINABILITY 2008: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR A THIRSTY PLANET, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
30/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
BANGKOK
MARKET A HUB FOR ILLEGAL INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN FRESHWATER TURTLES AND TORTOISES:
29/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
TACKLING
DROUGHT CRUCIAL IN FINDING FOOD CRISIS SOLUTION ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS:
28/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
INAUGURAL
WATERSMART INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION TO BE HELD IN LAS VEGAS, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
25/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
EVIAN
NATURAL SPRING WATER PURSUES ITS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY WITH THREE NEW
ECO-FRIENDLY FEATURES, by KATHY SHANDLING:
25/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
FINDING
CURES FOR MAJOR ILLNESSES AT RISK DUE TO BIODIVERSITY LOSS, UN WARNS:
25/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UN
HUMANITARIAN APPEAL TO COUNTER THREAT OF FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES IN TAJIKISTAN:
24/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
CLOROX
COMPANY RINGS THE OPENING BELL AT NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE IN CELEBRATION OF
EARTH DAY:
22/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
JEFFREY
SACHS' NEW MASTERPIECE: COMMON WEALTH - THE ECONOMICS FOR A CROWDED PLANET, by KATHY SHANDLING:
21/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UNICEF
HIGHLIGHTS WATER AND SANITATION AT G8 DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS' MEETING IN TOKYO,
by MIHOKO NAKAGAWA:
21/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)

Ryan
with Matt Damon, co-founder of H2O Africa Foundation
Photo
© Ryan's Well Foundation
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)
CANADA'S
WATER PLAN FOR FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES, by KATHY SHANDLING:
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)
UNDP
LAUNCHES 2008 WORLD BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT AWARDS:
17/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UN
ISSUES APPEAL FOR AID TO ETHIOPIAN DROUGHT VICTIMS:
16/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NEW
DESALINATION PLANT TO BE BUILT IN ALGERIA,
by KATHY SHANDLING:
10/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
FRENCH WATER COMPANY, SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT, HAS ANNOUNCED A NEW CHINA WATER
PARTNERSHIP, by KATHY SHANDLING:
10/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
MEXICO'S
CONAGUA APPROVES US$168 MILLION FOR SANITATION PROJECTS, by KATHY SHANDLING:
07/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
CHILEAN PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES US$128 MILLION FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, by
KATHY SHANDLING:
07/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
CEO
WATER MANDATE CONFERENCE REPORT ISSUED:
05/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ECUADOR
FLOODS: UNICEF CONTINUES ITS RELIEF OPERATION:
04/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
SUSTAINABLE WATER ALLIANCE TO BE LAUNCHED, by KATHY SHANDLING:
03/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
GRAMEEN
BANK AND VEOLIA WATER CREATE COMPANY TO PROVIDE WATER TO THE POOREST PEOPLE OF
BANGLADESH:
02/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
IMMINENT THREAT OF GLOBAL WATER WARS, by MASIMBA BIRIWASHA:
02/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
EXPANDING
WATER PRIVATIZATION INITIATIVES IN SAUDI ARABIA, by KATHY SHANDLING:
02/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
CLIMATE
CHANGE THREATENS DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS OF WORLD'S POOR DUE TO INCREASING WATER
SHORTAGES AND LACK OF GOOD QUALITY WATER - UN OFFICIAL:
01/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
HYFLUX
PLANS TO BUILD A US$468 MILLION WATER DESALINATION PLANT IN ALGERIA, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
01/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
FIRST
STAGE OF AFGHAN WATER PROJECT IS INAUGURATED, by KATHY SHANDLING:
01/04/2008 (MaximsNews Network)

In
a traditional Amazon River myth, at night a boto (pink river dolphin) becomes a
handsome young man, a shapeshifter called an encantado. Ariau Towers,
Brazil, Rio Negro
Photo: ©Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
COUSTEAU
FAMILY RETURN TO THE AMAZON, TO AIR ON PBS:
31/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)

Young girl from
and Arab nomad tribe carries water through her village on a donkey, in Regel
El-Kubri, Sudan. 16 March 2008 ©UN
Photo/Stuart Price
AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK PRESIDENT PLEDGES TO PLACE WATER AT THE CENTRE OF AFRICA'S
SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AT FIRST AFRICAN WATER WEEK:
28/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NEW
HYDROLOGICAL STATION WILL HELP MANAGE AFGHAN WATER RESOURCES:
28/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WORLD
CITIES AT UN FORUM UNITE TO REDUCE POVERTY AND COOPERATE IN AREAS SUCH AS WATER
AND SANITATION:
28/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
USAID
RECOGNIZES COCA-COLA'S EFFORTS IN PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT WITH
"ALLIANCE OF THE YEAR" AWARD:
27/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NEW
WATER AND POWER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE UAE, by KATHY SHANDLING:
27/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ISRAELI
WATER WOES, by KATHY SHANDLING:
27/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
WORLD
METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION CALLS FOR INCREASED HYDROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TO
HELP NATIONS ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE:
26/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
LACK
OF WATER AND POWER CRISIS DECLARED BY KUWAIT MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY AND WATER,
by KATHY SHANDLING:
26/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ANGOLA'S
"WATER FOR ALL" PROJECT TO COVER 80% OF THE COUNTRY'S POPULATION, by
KATHY SHANDLING:
26/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
GREECE
AGREES TO SUPPLY WATER TO CYPRUS, by KATHY SHANDLING:
26/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
OVER
100 MILLION LACK ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER IN EUROPE ACCORDING TO THE UN:
25/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ASIAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK AND OPEC BACK HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT IN NEPAL TO EASE
WATER SHORTAGES:
25/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UNICEF
CALLS FOR HELP FOR FLOOD VICTIMS IN NAMIBIA:
24/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UNCLEAN
WATER THREATENS HEALTH OF ONE MILLION CENTRAL AFRICANS, UN WARNS:
24/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
INTER-AMERICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK GRANT TO DEVELOP THERMAL TOURISM IN CHILE:
23/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UNICEF
& WHO JOINT STUDY: 6 IN 10 AFRICANS REMAIN WITHOUT ACCESS TO A PROPER
TOILET:
23/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ASIA
AND AFRICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF WATER AND SANITATION WOES?:
21/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
MAXIMSNEWS
WATER HONORS WORLD WATER DAY, by MARISHA
WOJCIECHOWSKA-SHIBUYA:
21/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
RUNNING
DRY: THE DOCUMENTARY ON THE WORLD'S GROWING WATER CRISIS INSPIRED BY U.S.
SENATOR PAUL SIMON, by KATHY SHANDLING:
21/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
View:
"RUNNING
DRY" Documentary
ASIAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK FUNDS ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN TO SAVE THE REGION'S SEAS AND
RAINFORESTS:
20/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NEW
UNITED NATIONS-ROTARY COLLABORATION SET TO SHARE GLOBAL INFORMATION:
20/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THE
FIRST LEE KUAN YEW WATER PRIZE GOES TO WATER TECHNOPRENEUR DR. ANDREW BENEDEK:
19/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
STOCKHOLM
WATER PRIZE 2008 AWARDED TO VIRTUAL WATER INNOVATOR, PROFESSOR ANTHONY ALLAN:
19/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NORWAY
COMMITS FUNDS TO THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE
DEVELOPMENT:
19/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
LET'S
TALK ABOUT THE SANITATION SCANDAL!:
19/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
THOUSANDS
OF RESTAURANTS IN THE U.S.A. HONOR WORLD WATER DAY WITH TAP PROJECT, by KATHY
SHANDLING:
19/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
TAKE
THE INITIATIVE - TAP INTO WATERAID:
17/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
OLYMPICS
COULD STRAIN BEIJING'S LOCAL WATER SUPPLY, by KATHY SHANDLING:
17/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
TUNIS
TO HOST FIRST AFRICAN WATER WEEK: 14/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
ECONOMIC
GROWTH SPURS CHANGES ALONG THE MEKONG RIVER BASIN: 14/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
CONTAMINATED
DRINKING WATER, by KATHY SHANDLING: 13/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
BAN
KI-MOON'S MESSAGE FOR WORLD WATER DAY: A LACK OF POLITICAL WILL BIGGEST CULPRIT
IN FAILURE TO ACHIEVE BASIC SANITATION GOAL: 13/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
PAKISTAN
LAUNCHES THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION 2008:
13/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
UNICEF
LAUNCHES A BOOKLET ON MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT: BRINGING THE ISSUE OUT OF
THE CLOSET:
13/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
THE
GLOBAL SANITATION FUND LAUNCHED TO TACKLE THE SANITATION SCANDAL:
12/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
CEO
WATER MANDATE CONVENES INAUGURAL WORKING CONFERENCE:
10/03/2008
(MaximsNews Network)
WATER,
FINANCE, AND THE QUEST FOR VIABLE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS by KATHY SHANDLING:
04/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
NOAA,
WORLD BANK JOIN TO HELP MANAGE WATER AND COASTAL RESOURCES IN LATIN AMERICA:
03/03/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
UNEP
Report Warns: Warmer World May Mean Less Fish
INTERNATIONAL
WATER-RELATED CONFERENCES: UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
27/02/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
JAPAN
ANNOUNCES NEW FOREIGN POLICY ON WATER:
25/02/2008 (MaximsNews Network)
SINGAPORE
INTERNATIONAL WATER WEEK TRADE EXPO SOLD OUT: 20/02/2008 (MaximsNews
Network)
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Secretary-General
Meets Prince of Netherlands, Chairperson of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory
Board on Water and Sanitation, for the Launch of the UN International Year of
Sanitation: 21/11/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon (right) meets with Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange of the
Netherlands and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General on
Water and Sanitation. 21 November 2007. UN Photo# 161842/Mark Garten
UN:
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION LAUNCHED TODAY FOR 2.6 BILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT
ADEQUATE FACILITIES: 21/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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PETER
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WHY
THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION IS NO MATTER FOR PRUDERY by PETER NEWBORNE:
21/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 21
November 2007 -- On
November 21st, 2007 the UN will launch the International
Year of Sanitation (IYS).
What,
a year talking about ... toilets?!?
In
Europe, we take for granted a toilet on...
WHY
THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF SANITATION IS NO MATTER FOR PRUDERY by PETER NEWBORNE:
21/11/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
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HIH THE
CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC WATER
SUMMIT: 13/11/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 13
November 2007 --
Japan’s
Imperial Household Agency has publicly announced HIH the Crown Prince of
Japan’s participation in the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit. HRH
the Dutch Prince of Orange, in his role as Chair of the United Nations
Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB), has also
announced his participation in the 1st APWS.
HIH
THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 1ST ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT:
13/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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WATER SUMMIT: PHNOM PENH'S WATER CHAMPION: 11/11/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED
NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network / - 12
November 2007 --
This
is the second feature story to be released in the lead up to the 1st
Asia-Pacific Water Summit, a series produced by the Asian Media Information and
Communication Centre (AMIC) in
Singapore
and released by the Asia-Pacific Water Forum.
ASIA-PACIFIC
WATER SUMMIT: PHNOM PENH'S WATER CHAMPION: 11/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UN:
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION NEEDS SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: ENVOY HAN SEUNG-SOO: 24/11/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
BOROUGE
AND BOREALIS LAUNCH WATER FOR THE WORLD: 05/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNESCO:
PRESIDENT BRANKO CRVENKOVSKI ON THE WORLD'S POOR WATER MANAGEMENT:
28/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
ASIA-PACIFIC
WATER SUMMIT: INDIA: LACK OF WATER, LACK OF EDUCATION by KALINGA SENEVIRATNE:
24/11/2007 (MaximsNews
Network)
ASIA-PACIFIC
WATER SUMMIT: CHINA'S LIAO RIVER PEOPLE CRY OUT FOR CLEAN UP by JIE CAO:
23/11/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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1ST
ASIA PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT: REMARKS BY MARGARET CATLEY-CARLSON AND FRANK R.
RIJSBERMAN, WATER AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION INITIATIVES, GOOGLE.ORG: 13/10/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
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U.S.
NATIONAL
ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES JOINS ACADEMIES
WORLDWIDE TO ADDRESS GLOBAL DRINKING WATER CRISIS
(MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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PACIFIC
INSTITUTE AND BSR RELEASE WATER TRENDS REPORT (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
•••
WBCSD
LAUNCHES GLOBAL WATER TOOL TO HELP COMPANIES MANAGE WATER USE (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UN:
UNESCO HOSTS EXPERT MEETING ON IMPROVING WATER MANAGEMENT IN CITIES: 13/9/2007
•••
MaximsNewsWATER
-- LAUNCHED TODAY AMID CONCERNS ON WATER AND SANITATION AS DOMINANT GLOBAL
ISSUES>>>
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PRIME
MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI: ADDRESS TO THE OPENING AT THE FIRST STEERING COMMITTEE
MEETING OF THE 1st ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT
•••
2007
WORLD WATER WEEK ENDS: TIME TO DO BETTER ON POVERTY, SANITATION, WATER SCARCITY
AND CLIMATE CHANGE: 22/8/2007
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UN
WARNS WATER WILL BECOME THE DOMINANT GLOBAL ISSUE THIS CENTURY: 21/8/2007
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U.S.
NATIONAL
ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES JOINS ACADEMIES WORLDWIDE TO ADDRESS GLOBAL DRINKING
WATER CRISIS (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./ - 20 September 2007 –
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences and
the Global Health and Education Foundation are joining with science,
engineering, and medical academies around the world to take action on the
drinking water crisis faced by many countries by launching “Safe Drinking
Water Is Essential” (www.drinking-water.org).
•••
U.S.
NATIONAL
ACADEMY
OF SCIENCES JOINS ACADEMIES
WORLDWIDE TO ADDRESS GLOBAL DRINKING WATER CRISIS (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UN:
UNESCO HOSTS EXPERT MEETING ON IMPROVING WATER MANAGEMENT IN CITIES: (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.) |
UNITED
NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./ -
September 2007 –
Government and academic experts from around
the world will examine ways to improve urban water management at an
international symposium that started yesterday at the Paris headquarters of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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UN:
UNESCO HOSTS EXPERT MEETING ON IMPROVING WATER MANAGEMENT IN CITIES: 13/9/2007
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WBCSD
LAUNCHES GLOBAL WATER TOOL TO HELP COMPANIES MANAGE WATER USE (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./ - September 2007 – The
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) launched its Global
Water Tool during World Water Week in Stockholm
last month.
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WBCSD
LAUNCHES GLOBAL WATER TOOL TO HELP COMPANIES MANAGE WATER USE (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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PRIME
MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI: ADDRESS TO THE OPENING AT THE FIRST STEERING COMMITTEE
MEETING OF THE 1st ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
UNITED
NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./
September 2007 - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, Chair
of the Steering Committee of the 1st Asia-Pacific Water
Summit and President, Asia-Pacific Water Forum, delivered these remarks to the
Opening at the First Steering Committee Meeting of the 1st
Asia-Pacific Water
Summit, March 29, 2007:
•••
PRIME
MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI: ADDRESS TO THE OPENING AT THE FIRST STEERING COMMITTEE
MEETING OF THE 1st ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT
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PRIME
MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI: BIO
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Loïc
Fauchon
President
of the World Water Council
See
Bio.
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Loïc
FAUCHON: Address to Symposium
on “Climate Change and Water”, Towards the 1st Asia-Pacific Water
Summit
and Beyond (7 August 2007):
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
UNITED
NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./ - 03
September 2007 – Loïc
Fauchon delivered the following address to the Symposium on "Climate Change
and Water", Towards
the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit
and Beyond, in Tokyo, Japan last month:
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Loïc
FAUCHON: Address to Symposium on
“Climate Change and Water”, Towards the 1st Asia-Pacific Water
Summit
and Beyond (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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Loïc
Fauchon:
BIO & Columns (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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SUSTAINABLE
WATER SUPPLY IN THE 21st CENTURY by MARGARET CATLEY-CARLSON: 01/9/2007
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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SUSTAINABLE
WATER SUPPLY IN THE 21st CENTURY by MARGARET CATLEY-CARLSON: 01/9/2007
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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H.M.
KING CARL XVI GUSTAF of SWEDEN (right) and H.R.H. PRINCE
WILLEM-ALEXANDER of THE NETHERLANDS (left) ATTEND WORLD WATER WEEK IN
STOCKHOLM
Photo
© Cecilia Österberg, Exray Foto/SIWI.
2007
WORLD WATER WEEK: TIME TO DO BETTER ON POVERTY, SANITATION, WATER
SCARCITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: 22/8/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
UNITED
NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./
- 22
August 2007 –
A 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm (www.worldwaterweek.org)
that began with a call for governments around the world to better manage
their existing water resources concluded Friday morning with the 2,500
participants from 140 countries saying, collectively that progress is
being made, but in the face of global poverty, critical lack of
sanitation, water scarcity and climate change, we all need to do much
better.
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2007
WORLD WATER WEEK ENDS: TIME TO DO BETTER ON POVERTY, SANITATION, WATER
SCARCITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: 22/8/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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UN
WARNS WATER WILL BECOME THE DOMINANT GLOBAL ISSUE THIS CENTURY:
21/8/2007 (MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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UNITED
NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@ U.N./ - 21
August 2007 –
Water will become the
dominant global issue this century, and the availability of its supply could
threaten the world’s social stability, warned Anna Tibaijuka, the head of the
U.N. agency tasked with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable
housing has warned.
•••
UN
WARNS WATER WILL BECOME THE DOMINANT GLOBAL ISSUE THIS CENTURY: 21/8/2007
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
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CRISIS
IN DRINKING WATER & SANITATION: ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT: 09/8/2007
(MaximsNews.com, U.N.)
Meeting
of the 2nd Steering Committee of the 1st Asia-Pacific Water
Summit: 1st row: Saif-ud-Din
Soz (Minister of Water Resources of India), Masako Uemoto (Vice President of
Japanese Trade Union Confederation), Han Seung-Soo (UN Secretary General’s
Special Envoy on Climate Change / President of Korea Water Forum), Yoshiro Mori
(Former Prime Minister of Japan / President, Asia-Pacific Water Forum), Margaret
Catley-Carlson (Chair of Global Water Partnership), Erna Witoelar (UN Special
Ambassador for Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific / Vice Chair
of Governing Council of Asia-Pacific Water Forum), Mercedes Lentz (Mnister’s
Adviser of Ministry for the Environment of New Zealand).
2nd
row: Norio Murakami
(President, Google Japan Inc.), Rae Kwon Chung (Director of Environment and
Sustainable Development Division, UNESCAP), Hiroaki Taniguchi (Vice-Minister for
Engineering Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan),
Sulton Rahimov (Chairman of the Executive Committee of International Fund for
Saving the Aral Sea), Karim Allaoui (Senior Water Resources Specialist, Islamic
Development Bank), Norihito Tambo (Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University
& the Open University of Japan / Vice President of Japan Water Forum), Ravi
Narayanan (Vice Chair of Governing Council of Asia-Pacific Water Forum / Former
Chief Executive of Water Aid), Hideaki Oda (Councillor to the President of
Asia-Pacific Water Forum), Loïc Fauchon (President of World Water Council),
James Horne (Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment and Water Resources
of Australia), Liqun Jin (Vice President of Asian Development Bank), Hu Siyi
(Vice Minister of Water Resources of China), Katsusada Hirose (Governor of Oita
Prefecture, Japan), Giasuddin Ahmed Choudhury (Executive Director of CEGIS,
Bangladesh), Masae Wada (Councilor of Housewives Association /
Vice President of Japan Water Forum), Hiroto Arakawa (Executive Director of
Japan Bank for International Cooperation), Yoshinori Imai (Executive Editor of
NHK Japan Broadcasting Cooperation).
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CRISIS
IN DRINKING WATER & SANITATION: ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT: 09/8/2007
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MEDIA
ADVISORY: ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT: 2ND STEERING COMMITTEE TO MEET 6
AUG. 2007 (MaximsNewsWATER)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
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July 2007 –
Water
and sanitation problems still lag in many of the region’s national priorities,
with millions still underserved and at great cost to several of the region’s
national economies. Can these issues of vital concern to millions find their way
higher up the region’s national agenda and attract the attention of the G8
leaders?
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MEDIA
ADVISORY: ASIA-PACIFIC WATER SUMMIT: 2ND STEERING COMMITTEE TO MEET 6 AUG. 2007
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MEDIA
ADVISORY: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER, 7 AUG. 2007 (MaximsNewsWATER)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./ - 31
July 2007 –
The
climate is undergoing dramatic changes and water and sanitation issues are
deemed most vulnerable to the impact of climate change, with anticipated
large-scale water shortages, significant agricultural damage, a rise in
infectious diseases and intensification of natural disasters.
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MEDIA
ADVISORY: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER, 7 AUG. 2007
(MaximsNewsWATER)
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