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Climate change: civil society does not neglect water in Copenhagen
08 Jan 10
Unlike the official UN climate meeting, the parallel civil society Klimaforum09 did not neglect the issue of water in Copenhagen.
Sanitation promotion: World’s Longest Toilet Queue
07 Jan 10
The World’s Longest Toilet Queue is a mass mobilisation event and Guinness World Record attempt bringing together thousands of campaigners on World Water Day. The campaigners are demanding that governments act to solve the global sanitation and water crisis, one month before the first High-Level Meeting on Sanitation and Water.
Water crisis: private sector solutions for closing the resource gap
05 Jan 10
The growing “water gap”, in which global water demand will be 40 per cent more than supply by 2030, can be closed by a combination of demand-side and supply-side measures, says a new report from the 2030 Water Resources Group. Such a balanced approach is four times cheaper than supply-side only measures like desalination.
Climate change: water evaporates from Copenhagen negotiations, say campaigners
12 Nov 09
The latest draft of the negotiating text on climate adaptation has deleted any clear references to water and its management, said campaigners at a pre-Copenhagen event in Barcelona.
Human rights: UN investigator tells of horrors and insanitary conditions of world prisons
12 Nov 09
Inmates at a prison in Uruguay can spend years in cells where temperatures rise to 60 degrees Celcius. They had to use the water in the toilets for drinking and defecate in plastic bags, which they later threw outside their cells.
Diarrhoea: why children are still dying and what can be done
12 Nov 09
Despite the existence of inexpensive and efficient means of treatment, diarrhoea kills more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, according to a new UNICEF/WHO report. Other research finds that diarrhoea kills 1.5 million over-five-year-olds – mostly adolescents and the elderly - in Africa and South-East Asia, more than three times more than previously thought.
Awareness raising: first clown in space hosts show to save Earth’s water
13 Oct 09
Cirque du Soleil founder hosted a show from space linking events in 14 world cities to raise awareness about clean water.
Global Handwashing Day 2009: focus on schoolchildren and swine flu
13 Oct 09
Millions of children and adults in over 80 countries celebrated the second annual Global Handwashing Day on 15 October 2009. About 200 million children took part last year.
Climate change: high adaptation costs for water sector, World Bank study says
12 Oct 09
Water supply and flood management, ranks as one of the top three climate adaptation costs in both the wetter and drier scenario, with Sub-Saharan Africa footing by far the highest costs, says a new World Bank report.
Public opinion survey: water tops climate change as global priority
15 Sep 09
A public opinion survey finds that people around the world view water issues as the planet’s top environmental problem, greater than air pollution, depletion of natural resources, loss of habitat and even climate change.
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