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".
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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We are also making headway in solving the global water crisis.
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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 United Nations suggested that the Darfur conflict began in part because of a 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.
"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
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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The overall objective of the project is to promote the sound management of groundwater resources in order to prevent and even reverse a global water 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.
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.
Undoubtedly the crisis is being exacerbated by climate change, which is resulting in increasing water stress in poor communities in many parts of the tropics currently facing water insecurity.
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Republicans blocked that because they want to water down Wall Street reforms, reforms that were put in place to help prevent the kind of financial crisis that almost tipped the global economy into a depression.
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