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Stockholm Wrap-Up: Groups Call For Water Action
23 Aug 02
The World Water Council, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and six other organizations wrapped up the four-day Stockholm Water Symposium by calling for political and financial action at the World Summit on Sustainable Development to a
Water Management: Promoting the Soft Path
13 Aug 02
In an article in the leading scientific journal, Nature, Peter Gleick propagates the "soft path" in water management to serve the millions still lacking safe water and sanitation.
Summit: USA to Raise Water Issues
13 Aug 02
The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Water (OW) is helping the US government prepare for the Aug 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).
Water Crisis: Building More Taps and Toilets not the Solution
13 Aug 02
WWF International is concerned that preparations for the Aug 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) have so far only focused on water delivery and sanitation, "without actually ensuring there is any water available to make them work".
Summit: Policy Priorities for Water Security and Development
29 Jul 02
In a policy briefing* for the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sandra Postel calls for a fundamentally new approach to water and human development.
Diarrhoea: Rotavirus Vaccine Development Gets Boost
29 Jul 02
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) will make up to US$ 90 million (EUR 92 million) available in the coming three years for vaccine development for pneumococcus and rotavirus.
Research: Global Coalition Established
29 Jul 02
In Apr 2002 twelve world leading research organizations established the Global Water Research Coalition (GWRC). The Coalition will focus on water supply and wastewater issues and renewable water resources: the urban water cycle.
Handwashing: Soap and Water Could Save a Million Lives a Year
15 Jul 02
Diarrhoea is the second-biggest killer of children in the world. Scientists at the 2nd conference of the International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene (IFH), declared that old-fashioned handwashing with soap and water could save a million lives a year.
Cyberterrorism: US Studying Two-Year Old Australian Attack on Sewage Pumping Station
15 Jul 02
US investigators are studying a computer attack in 2000 that pumped raw sewage into an Australian water supply. So far it is the only case in which an intruder has deliberately used a digital control system to attack public infrastructure.
Financing: G7 Frees Funds for Water
01 Jul 02
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries have agreed to allot 20% of the funds from a US$ 22 billion (EUR 22.4 billion) low-interest loan fund for poor countries to be given as grants aimed at education, health, nutrition and water safety.
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