The rule targets equipment that power plants and manufacturing facilities use to draw in water to prevent overheating, even though those intake systems are not harmful to human health or water quality.
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The discussions revolved around the areas of education, health, water and agriculture, according to a cryptic statement issued by the Azim Premji Foundation.
In 1999 Texas authorised a colonias initiative to co-ordinate state efforts to improve transport, housing, health and water, and hundreds of millions of state dollars have been allocated for the work over the past decade.
The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), a UN system-wide initiative, will amplify the benefits from global to national levels of efforts to adapt to climate variability and change for improved health, water management, disaster risk reduction, agriculture and food security from 2013.
With a tenth of people in the United Kingdom living in one-third of its land mass, it is obviously going to cost more to deliver services such as health, water and sewerage in my native Eilean Siar (Western Isles) than it is in urban Chelsea.
But Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, an expert on water management and a leading author of the report, warned that more needed to be done to combat desertification.
The USC Hubli Water and Health Team team hopes to shed light on this threatening issue, as confronting the challenge of dirty drinking water is a "gateway" step towards achieving measured, sustainable improvements in a wide array of serious health related issues.
But he has faced increasing opposition from environmentalists who claim "fracking" will threaten public health and drinking water.
In the poorest countries, greater investments in public health, clean water, and the like could do a lot to improve living standards.
We must increase investments in education, health, and water and sanitation.
The ratings will cover eight broad categories: education, health care, water and waste water utilities, energy utilities, cities, counties and states, transportation, ports and airports, U.S. Treasuries and agency debt.
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Combine microfinance with education, combine health clinics and water programs, use the same distribution channels to deliver multi-part social services, treat people with the complexity and respect they deserve, and so on.
Many are in need of food, shelter, health care and clean water, said the U.N.
The top four were basic health care, better water and sanitation, more schools and better nutrition for children.
"Successful project completions in the key water and health sectors fell far short of hopes, " the report said.
Not to have food, water, health care or a secure environment is a matter of life and death.
Other projects included the provision of educational and health facilities, and water supplies.
Every country in the Horn has dozens of cutting-edge programs that tackle education, health care, clean water, transportation, agriculture, and more.
When people are hungry, deprived of basic needs such as clean water, health care, and education, and without meaningful employment, they suffer.
Since joining the World Bank, in 1992, Uzbekistan had received more than five hundred million dollars in loans, mostly for rural water and health projects.
Polluted water increased health risks and harmed the ecology of the river, resulting in the deaths of large numbers of fish in "extreme cases", he told MPs.
The school's distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cybersecurity.
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He said his review focuses in particular on the relationship of fracking to the health impacts of drinking water, as well as other areas such as air quality and community impacts.
On August 11, strong earthquakes in northwest Iran destroyed and damaged hundreds of villages, causing the loss of many lives, leaving thousands without electricity, water, health care and other essential services.
To counter scepticism over how the oil revenues will be managed, Chad has passed a law under which 80% of the income will be used to finance education, health, environment, water and rural development.
The concept refers to an innovative proposal development, considering the collective participation in the process of organizing, developing and implementing solutions to concrete problems of food, education, energy, housing, income, water, health or environment.
Mr Wolfowitz is not a banker, an economist, a public health specialist, a water management specialist, an agronomist, a climate change specialist - any of the professional specialisations that stand at the core of the poverty challenge.
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The remarkable fall in mortality rates in Europe and North America a century ago owed little to drugs and almost everything to improved nutrition and better public health arrangements: reliable water supplies, safe drains, regular rubbish collection.
Thanks to the generosity of the British and American people, our nations led a significant humanitarian response that helped save hundreds of thousands of lives in Somalia alone, and reached millions of people across the region with food, health care, and water and sanitation services.
That single event has illustrated just how important clean water is to the health of our communities and our economy, and how entire ways of life count on clean water and a healthy environment.
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