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UN: United Nations Secretary General's statement on World Water Day 2010
17 Mar 10
The theme of this year’s World Water Day, “Clean Water for a Healthy World”, emphasizes that both the quality and the quantity of water resources are at risk. More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, says the United Nations Secretary General's statement on World Water Day 2010.
Ghana Blogging Water Action Day
16 Mar 10
A series of blog posts around water issues by Ghana Blogging.
Webinar: International Water Use Policies, Regulatory Issues and Trends
16 Mar 10
Enhesa in Washington is organising an International Water Use Policies, Regulatory Issues and Trends webinar on 30 March 2010.
Internet campaign: Reflections about water
16 Mar 10
Apronad Costa Rica”s World Water Day contribution to the world is an internet campaign through their social network in Facebook
Global: Many events world-wide around World Water Day
16 Mar 10
This special Source newsletter features many World Water Day events for awareness and fund raising, which are held around the world and on the internet around 22 March. They include: many walks for water and fund raising for a project in Africa or Asia; school campaigns; street theatre shows; film shows; concerts, a new animated adventure-comedy series for kids aged 5-8, newspaper articles and radio programmes.
Rethinking hydro‐philanthropy: smart money for transformative impact
04 Mar 10
Water For People CEO Ned Breslin lays bare all the secrets and shortcomings of today’s charity‐based approach in the water and sanitation sector sector and suggests a way forward towards sustainable change with long term benefits.
European Commission: realigning development aid towards water
04 Mar 10
With the UN Millennium Development Goals set to be reviewed in September 2010, the European Commission is calling for an increased focus on access to water and sanitation, as the achievement of other UN development goals depends on it.
Climate change: four billion people threatened by water shortages, Oxfam warns
03 Mar 10
Oxfam says that current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions will lead to a nearly four degree centigrade rise in global temperature by 2100. This would leave four billion people affected by water shortages across the globe, with year round droughts in Southern Africa.
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.
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