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A Capitol Offensive: Renowned Strategists Challenge U.S. to Lead Global Water Campaign

As the money tree of the world wilts, thirsty from neglect, people around the globe desperately sound the alarm. The most recent iteration of this message comes from the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) — the respected bi-partisan strategy and public policy think tank in Washington D.C. As part of the CSIS Global […]

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Pipes Whisper of Water Crisis in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Tanks are great, but pipes are better. Praised for nearly halving the number of its citizens without safe water, South Africa’s infrastructure remains insufficient for much of the nation. Its crumbling apartheid-generation plumbing still leaves 5 million people without proper drinking water and nearly 15 million without basic sanitation facilities, IRIN […]

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Sierra Leone Fights Corruption, Improves Sanitation

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — In a country endowed with natural resources, but fraught with conflict and corruption, President Ernest Bai Koroma is doing what he can to expose the leaks. His foreign minister of foreign affairs points to improper sanitation facilities as a sign of persisting problems, reports the BBC. As 2015, the United Nation’s […]

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The World’s Water: Hard Facts Point Toward the Soft Path

Experts say water crises can be averted with better management, changes in attitudes by Sarah Haughn Circle of Blue On the horizon rests a dark cloud. It may or may not bring soothing rain. In California, experts at the Pacific Institute are doing their part to ensure it does. By most forecasts, the future looks […]

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Dirty waters: Corruption infects global water services

Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report: misconduct rife in water sector by C.T. Pope Circle of Blue From Manila to Milan, fraud, bribery and organized profiteering are rampant in the water sector says a new report by Transparency International (TI), a global non-profit aimed at exposing and preventing corruption. The organization’s annual corruption report, presented last […]

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Deep Pangs of Irony: Courting Water to Conquer War

On March 22 we observed another World Water Day, and this week we marked the fifth anniversary of the military conflict in Iraq. Water and war are bound together by more than the coincidence of time — they are related by blood. Drought and Deluge are the weary parents of Desperation, Destruction and Despair. Five […]

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Margaret Catley-Carlson: Talking Water at the World Economic Forum

Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.Margaret Catley-Carlson: […]

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Margaret Catley-Carlson: Talking Water at the World Economic Forum

Margaret Catley-Carlson is chairperson of Global Water Partnership, a working partnership among formed in 1996 by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. From the U.N. Global Compact to what you can do, Catley-Carlson talks all things water at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Water’s Urgent Message at the World Economic Forum

“One of the problems that we face is that climate change is on the ascendant, and people are not always making the links to water as they perhaps should. I think that’s coming and over the next two to three years water will progressively build into a really central component of the Davos agenda.” — […]

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World Economic Forum Annual Meeting closes with call for a new kind of collaborative leadership

World Economic Forum Press Release   Davos, Switzerland, 27 January 2008 – The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2008 closed today with a call by business, government and civil society leaders for a new brand of collaborative and innovative leadership to address the challenges of globalization, particularly the pressing problems of conflict – especially in […]