Analysis: World Water Day Promises Much, but We’ve Been Here Before |
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Global leaders lay out steps to improved water quality at World Water Day, but much of the implementation is beyond their control. |
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2010 Stockholm Water Prize Awarded to American Water and Public Health Expert |
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Stockholm Water Prize Laureate is American Rita Colwell, for her research into preventing waterborne infectious diseases. |
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Zafar Adeel: A Conversation With the New Chair of UN-Water |
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Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton spoke with Zafar Adeel, the new chair of UN-Water. |
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Freshwater Delivery in the Wake of Natural Disasters |
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A sample of water technologies invented to store, ship and provide one of the most critical resources for crisis recovery. |
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World Water Day Panelists Urge New Mindset for Wastewater Treatment |
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Newly-released UNEP report details challenges, benefits of expanding wastewater treatment coverage. |
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Kenyan Prison Uses Constructed Wetland to Improve Sanitation |
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Low cost, low maintenance water treatment system in Kenyan prison proves better for small communities than traditional waste water treatment. |
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Designing Water’s Future – New Book Shows Student Solutions to Global Freshwater Crisis |
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World Water Day: “Designing Water’s Future,” the international student competition finds solutions to the global fresh water crisis. Water is the axis issue that intersects health, poverty, and security, as well as climate, energy, immigration, and the environment. |
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Stunning Water Images from Space: European Space Agency |
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Images from space including the Ganges River in the Himalayas and the Fox Basin in the Canadian Arctic. |
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Peter Gleick: World Water Day 2010 — A trip through one of the worst slums in the world |
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Like urban slums throughout the developing world, there is almost a complete lack of piped safe water and no formal sanitation. Raw sewage and garbage flow through the streets and drainage ditches. |
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The Economics of Water Quality Need Greater Emphasis, UN Experts Say |
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Waste water treatment costs and ecosystem services are often not properly accounted for, say UN experts at World Water Day conference. |
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