The conference was organized by the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC), in cooperation with UNESCO and other partners.
For example, a great deal of foreign money and effort has been poured into sorting out the region's water supplies over the past decade without much to show for it.
Look at any decade starting in the 1960s and compare U.S. energy efficiency, air quality and water quality to the decade that follows.
The Golden State is in desperate need of solutions--it has the unfortunate distinction of holding four spots on Forbes' list of the Top 10 Thirstiest Cities, the American cities most likely to face dire water shortages in the next decade.
Every American has been, on average, treading water for the past decade.
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They are more and more vulnerable, and they have been for the last decade, treading water.
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The primary goal of the 'Water for Life' Decade is to promote efforts to fulfil international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015.
While historically wet, the Southeast United States have seen persistent drought conditions over the past decade and legal conflicts over water.
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The giant new fields in the deep water off Brazil are unlikely to produce oil for a decade or more.
Beijing's average domestic water-consumption per person has barely changed in the past decade even though prices more than doubled between 2001 and 2004.
Through its Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), the United Nations is working to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to put a stop to the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.
High demand for water amid the heat wave and problems with soil shrinking as the ground warms has resulted in burst pipes and low water pressure in Oklahoma City, prompting officials to issue mandatory water-use restrictions for the first time in at least a decade, according to utilities department spokeswoman Debbie Ragan.
That said, over the past decade, there has been an enormous amount of evidence that water once flowed freely on the ancient surface of Mars.
Ecosystems and environmental change: over the past decade it has become clear that most of the deep-water ecosystems (cold-water corals) are highly influenced by the presence of deep-water circulation.
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.
Water shortages, dust bowls and urbanization have cut China's agricultural land base by 10% in the past decade.
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