Mr White acknowledged the organisation's emergency plan to deal with the water crisis had been "inadequate".
Then there were the Perwaja Steel losses, the water crisis, environmental disasters, the vicious eviction of urban squatters, deaths in police custody.
Earlier, former Northern Ireland Water (NIW) acting chief executive Christopher Mellor, who was sacked in March, had described the water crisis as a "disaster waiting to happen".
One of the most frequently forgotten dimensions of the water crisis is the fact that 900 million people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion people do not have basic sanitation.
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When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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Well, the oncoming water crisis is going to make water shortage, cleanliness and access regular headlines.
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While social entrepreneurship is starting to make a difference in addressing the global water crisis, so much more needs to be done.
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In much the same way, just when the investing public thought it was safe to get back into the water, the Euro crisis erupted.
During intense consultations the importance of a sound management of groundwater resources necessary to prevent and reverse the global water crisis were successfully addressed.
We are also making headway in solving the global water crisis.
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The overall objective of the project is to increase the awareness of the paramount importance of sound groundwater resources management to tackle the global water crisis.
The overall project objective is to increase the awareness of the paramount importance of sound management of groundwater resources in preventing and reversing the global water crisis.
The overall project objective is to increase the awareness on the paramount importance of a sound management of our groundwater resources in preventing and reversing the global water crisis.
Their discussions focused on politics, the economy and development as well as issues related to education, social justice and the sciences, and in this regard more specifically to the importance of sustainable groundwater resources management in averting the impending water crisis.
The challenges of the growing global water crisis are well documented.
Every organization focused on addressing the water and sanitation crisis has a mission statement that suggests they want to create a world where all people have access to water, or where no child dies from a water- or sanitation-related disease.
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Given the looming crisis of water scarcity, we badly need more efficient and less costly methods to desalinate ocean water.
"The city will not suffer what you could call a water crisis, " said Ramon Aguirre of the Mexico City water department.
More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.
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Let me take you on a quick tour around the world and introduce you to just a few of the people and places Circle of Blue is finding on the front lines of a global water crisis.
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In a video message to the High-level session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
In his video message during the high-level segment, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called upon the scientific community to help make sense of the complex and interconnected challenges --including climate change, the financial crisis and food, water and energy insecurity -- that threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it.
Separately comes a report that municipal bonds backed by water utilities may also be heading toward a crisis due to stress on water tables around the nation.
The group's global programmes director, Christiaan Poortman, said he hoped the weight of the financial crisis would not lead policymakers at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh to water down corruption-fighting efforts.
No matter where it starts, an economic crisis does not stop at the water's edge.
But demand for the fishermen's catch dried up with the worldwide economic crisis and left many of these divers without a reason to go out on the water.
The United Nations suggested that the Darfur conflict began in part because of a water crisis.
The report got him into hot water, but Ackman was eventually proven right as MBIA began to crumble amid the financial crisis.
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The article was written before the onset of the economic crisis at what was, in retrospect, a high-water mark of American efforts to promote democracy and even of American power more generally.
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