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| Eighth
Special Session of the Governing Council and 5th Global Ministerial
Environment Forum Begins in Korea |
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| Caribbean
Countries Meet In Miami To Discuss Marine Protection Representatives of 31 countries are meeting in Miami this week to discuss balancing economic growth with protecting the marine and coastal environments of the Caribbean. According to Veerle Vandeweerd, director of regional seas and GPA for the U.N. Environment Program, people are unaware of some of the major causes of pollution and the connection between land and sea. Some 80 percent of marine pollution can be directly traced to land use, yet "people don't seem to realize that water is flowing from the tops of hills to the ocean," she said. Read More Visit WW2BW partnership website by clicking here |
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| Mexico
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Water: A Neglected Research Priority Providing adequate supplies of clean drinking water may not be the most exciting challenge facing scientists working in developing countries. But it is certainly one of the most pressing — and, potentially, the most rewarding. Few issues exemplify more dramatically the gap between the potential of modern science and technology to meet the needs of the developing world, and the failure to fully realise that potential, than the lack of a clean and safe supply of water. In most of the developed world, the constant availability of clean water is virtually taken for granted (even if its purity is sometimes questioned). In the developing world it is the reverse; it is estimated, for example, that more than 1 billion people — about one sixth of the world's population — do not have access to safe drinking water, and figures published this week in the run-up to the Fourth World Water Forum, taking place in Mexico City, suggest that this number could quadruple by 2025. Read More |
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| Australia
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| South
African Water and Sanitation Backlog being Tackled |
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| Chinese
Dams Blamed as Mekong River Level Drops |
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| UK
Stakeholder Roundtable Stakeholder Forum, in conjunction with Defra (UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), are hosting a one day stakeholder workshop as part of the UK government’s preparations for GPA’s Hilltops-2-Oceans (H2O) Partnership Conference. The H2O conference will be held in Cairns, Australia from 10 – 14 May and forms a critical role in implementing the H2O initiative. The purpose of this UK stakeholder workshop is to provide the UK government with an understanding of stakeholder priorities for H2O, and enables stakeholders to actively participate in preparatory processes for the conference. Workshop participants will be provided with briefing papers for discussion and expert practitioners will be presenting and facilitating aspects of the event. There will be facilitated breakout groups on issue based and implementation/action based themes. The roundtable will be held in early April and UK stakeholders will be encouraged to voice their views on the following issues (to name a few): environmental dimensions of realising WSSD sanitation targets, integrated coastal management, ecosystem approach, Wastewater Emission Targets, partnerships and financial arrangements for environmental management, institutional capacity and enhanced involvement of the private sector and civil society in addressing problems of river, coastal and marine pollution. This stakeholder roundtable promises to be a vigorous and exciting event! For more information on the Defra roundtable contact: kdickinson@stakeholderforum.org For more information on the H2O conference click here. |
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