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April 25, 2013
For the last few days I’ve been the subject of a campaign on social media platforms attempting to portray me as opposed to the human right to water. An interview I gave in 2005 in which I discussed the public right to water has been shared widely. My critics say it shows I want to […]
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April 23, 2013
By Walter Staveloz A report from the 2030 Water Resources Group (November 2009), Charting Our Water Future: Economic world, water demand will exceed supply by 50 per cent. This is an alarming figure and shows the importance of access to this essential resource. Quick, evidence-based decision-making by national and international policymakers is required to avoid […]
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February 17, 2013
In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, 158 438 residents of the city of Copiapó suffered daily cut-offs of tap water last year as Anglo American and other companies helped suck nearby aquifers dry for their mines. With little water left for drinking or mining, the government of President Sebastián Piñera convinced the companies to […]
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April 25, 2012
by Shiney Varghese The new draft National Water Policy (NWP) circulated by the Ministry of Water Resources to water experts suggests that the government is poised to withdraw from its responsibilities of water service delivery, and that multinational corporations and financial institutions might have too big a say in water allocation and policy. At first […]
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January 26, 2012
By Dominic Waughray As the issue of freshwater scarcity becomes ever more pressing, a new partnership aims to help governments change their business as usual approach to water management While much of the focus in Davos is on the macro-economic fault lines that are holding back global growth and job creation and promoting inequality, there is […]
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October 21, 2011
Dead Sea, October 21 (Petra)— His Royal Highness, Prince Feisal bin Al Hussein joined Jordanian and international experts at the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea to consider how water management in Jordan can be transformed into a system that will guarantee […]