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Development goals: targeting the poor and coordination save children’s lives

07 Nov 07

The lives of millions of children could be saved by a coordinated global effort to improve nutrition and provide clean water, better sanitation and cleaner household fuels in developing countries, a new study finds. The reduction in childhood mortality can be maximised if the integrated management of the interventions prioritises the poor.

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EU Water Initiative: proposals for reform adopted at Stockholm

02 Oct 07

The Multi Stakeholder Forum of the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) was held during the 2007 Stockholm World Water Week. The Forum adopted the proposals for reform of the EUWI as presented earlier in the March 2007 independent review jointly funded by Germany and the UK.

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Pollution: world’s ten 'most polluted places' named

01 Oct 07

U.S.-based Blacksmith Institute, an independent environmental group, in partnership with Green Cross Switzerland, have announced their second annual Top Ten list of the world's most severely polluted places. The sites lie in seven countries and affect the health of more than 12 million people.

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Sustainable development: network established to keep water and sanitation on international agenda

01 Oct 07

The Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) on Water Management is coordinating the participation of stakeholders (government, civil society and international organizations) in the preparation of the water and sanitation review at the May 2008 session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16).

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Stockholm: “it is time to do better on global poverty, sanitation, water scarcity and climate change”

14 Sep 07

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.

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Arsenic: poisoned drinking water a global threat to health

14 Sep 07

The international response to the arsenic crisis, which threatens the health of 137 million people in over 70 countries, is inadequate say researchers attending the 2007 Royal Geographical Society annual conference in London.

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USA: government urged to increase aid for global water and sanitation

12 Sep 07

Through a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, Washington, DC-based Water Advocates, is calling for increased U.S. support for worldwide safe drinking water and sanitation. The group is urging the U.S. Congress to pass the Water for the Poor Act and approve US$ 300 million in funding for 2008.

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Sanitation: meeting the MDG target will require extraordinary efforts, says UN report

27 Jul 07

Without extraordinary efforts, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the proportion of people without basic sanitation by 2015, will be missed by 600 million. The region demanding most attention is sub-Saharan Africa.

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Development goals: aid systems thwarts MDG progress, says WaterAid

27 Jul 07

To mark the midpoint in the agreed timescale for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), WaterAid has launched a report asking donors to balance their investments more evenly across the essential services: health, education, water and sanitation.

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UK: DFID opens E-Forum on water policy

27 Jul 07

As part of the consultation process on the update of its water and sanitation policy, the UK Department of International Development (DFID) opened a public e-forum from 16 July until 6 August 2007. In the e-forum, DFID asks for opinions on specific questions related to its current and future work priorities, working with multilaterals, priorities at country and at international level, and fragile states.

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