GPA Outreach Online Debate: Mon 8 – Wed 17 March 2004
Stakeholder Forum and GPA are pleased to launch an interactive online debate as part of GPA Outreach. This debate provides an opportunity for a variety of stakeholders (you!) to discuss, debate, share views, experiences on the role and contribution of the GPA towards the issues being addressed across upcoming UN meetings such as the 8th Special Session of the Governing Council (GC) / Global Ministerial Environmental Forum (GMEF).
The debate will focus on the following themes Water Management and Governance and Wastewater and Sanitation as a reflection of the issues being debated.
The debate is located on Stakeholder Forum’s website along with relevant background documents. Expert practitioners will also be lending their views, and all stakeholders are encouraged to participate in this exciting event. You can CONTRIBUTE NOW at: http://www.stakeholderforum.org/debate/. We look forward to hearing from you!

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At first glance, it looks like a tropical paradise: an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where palm trees encircling a pristine blue-green lagoon sway in the breeze. But to the native islanders, Bikini Atoll is more like an exhausted, scorched wasteland, where they eke out an existence in a place that today is forgotten by much of the world. But March 1, 1954, it became ground zero during the Cold War.
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Nile States Hold 'Crisis Talks'
The 10 states that share the Nile waters are meeting in Uganda on Monday to discuss the future of the river. The talks - held under the auspices of the Nile Basin Initiative - come amid growing regional tensions over the world's longest river.
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Sargasso Genome Study Finds 1,800 New Ocean Species
Genome experts who took on a patch of ocean for a mass gene-sequencing project said Thursday they had discovered at least 1,800 new species of microbes and changed some of their fundamental ideas about ocean biology. Genome pioneer Craig Venter and other scientists analyzed the tiny organisms in a sample of water from the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda and then sequenced the genetic code.
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Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation Announces 2004 Winners
The Pew Institute for Ocean Science and its illustrious Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation are proud to announce five new Marine Conservation Fellows for 2004. These exceptional leaders in ocean conservation from Argentina, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States will conduct their Pew Fellowship work in the Antarctic Ocean, the Caribbean, Patagonia, Indonesia, and the western Pacific Ocean.
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Visit Pew Fellows in Marine Conservation webpage

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