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Questionnaire focuses on usage, operations and supply chains and management strategies in water-intensive sectors.

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Newly-released UNEP report details challenges, benefits of expanding wastewater treatment coverage.

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The Pacific Institute believes California can conserve already threatened freshwater resources, but keep growing.

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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Presses India for Water Deal During VisitThe two leaders discussed river sharing and hydroelectric power plants during their January 11 meeting.

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Nile River BasinMany joint economic development projects have been completed, but an agreement on cooperative management of the river basin has not been signed.

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Chattahoochee River Stakeholders Create Organization to Resolve Southern US Water ConflictMembers from Alabama, Florida and Georgia hope that grassroots negotiations will spur a resolution from higher levels of government over Lake Lanier.

Environmental groups, business organizations and power companies have united to form the ACF Stakeholders, a forum for discussing ways to resolve the 20-year impasse over the use of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river basin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

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Great Lakes Wastewater Treatment TechnologyThe Mideast is proving to be a popular destination for Midwestern political officials to pitch water technology trade deals.

Both Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Michigan Lt. Gov. John Cherry have been touting the freshwater potential of their states to businessmen in Israel to promote economic growth in the burgeoning field of water technology.

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Water Experts Prep for UN Climate Conference in CopenhagenExperts at an international water and energy conference in Copenhagen this week hope to pool their resources and hone their message for the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference.

The three-day water and energy conference is being hosted by the International Water Association (IWA) and ends today. The London-based non-profit organization brings together global water professionals to develop effective and sustainable approaches of water management.

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U.S. Water Issues Dividing and Challenging the Country like never beforeWith floods across the Midwest, droughts along the Southwest, and legal inter-state skirmishes in the West and South—water issues are dividing the United States and challenging its citizens like never before. As first reported by Circle of Blue in July 2008, increasing competition for diminishing water supplies is driving the United States into an era of water scarcity.

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Three months after Turkey promised to release more water down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraq still struggles with its water supplies. Iraq's Water Resources Minister Abdul Latif Rasheed said Thursday that Turkey had failed to hold to its promise and called for more coordinated actions among the countries sharing the watershedsThree months after Turkey promised to release more water down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraq still struggles with its water supplies.

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