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Managing water scarcity
Revised and updated papers presented and discussed at the IDPAD Seminar Managing water scarcity : experiences and prospects, held in Amersfoort, The Netherlands in October 1997
Water wars: a review of water scarcity and water conflict
Columnist and former Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia, Sam Vaknin, reviews global water scarcity and the likelihood of water-related conflicts.
WWD 2007 theme: Coping with Water Scarcity
'Coping with Water Scarcity' is the theme for World Water Day 2007, which is celebrated each year on 22 March.
Challenges of water scarcity
This report contains the results of a joint UNEP-FI and SIWI project on water-related challenges for financial institutions.
Water scarcity: FAO heads UN water initiatives
By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in areas with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water stress conditions, says the FAO. In 2007, the FAO is chairing UN-Water and it is also the coordinating agency within the UN system in 2007 for World Water Day.
Financing: risks from water scarcity and related social conflict
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Stockholm International Water Institute / Swedish Water House (SIWI) are investigating the potential risks for financial institutions that arise from water scarcity and water related social conflict in Africa and Latin America.
Middle East and North Africa: most countries face water scarcity by 2050
It is expected that by 2050 all the Arab countries, except Mauritania, Iraq and Sudan, will be experiencing water scarcity.
Stockholm: “it is time to do better on global poverty, sanitation, water scarcity and climate change”
The conclusion drawn from the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm was that progress was 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”. Water activitists protested about "creeping corporate takeover" of the event.
Climate change: billions could face water scarcity by 2100, IPCC report
By 2100, water scarcity could impact between 1.1 and 3.2 billion people, says a leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Developing countries would be most affected. In France, forty-five nations called for the establishment of a United Nations Environment Organization (UNEO) to slow global warming.
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