Cooperation on water issues will also be the theme for World Water Day on 22 March.
Presentation of a series of animated cartoons created and elaborated by schoolchildren around the world devoted to water issues and solutions.
Meanwhile, another report (PDF) from the National Intelligence Council, released in February, warned of security threats due to water issues.
The UNESCO-IHE Institute focuses on education in water issues.
Nationwide, 250, 000 water lines burst a year, or about one every two minutes, flooding and closing streets, interrupting water service, and requiring residents to boil water for safety, wrote New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg in a special series on water issues.
The World Water Council, founded in 1996 to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues, notes on its website that more than one out of six people (1.1 billion) in the world already lack access to safe drinking water, and that more than two out of six people (2.6 billion) lack adequate sanitation.
Although seemingly a problematic feature, their effective management also a greater potential for developing sustainable solutions to water resources issues than any other type of water system.
Just as water scarcity and security are not issues confined to the water sector but are really societal issues, the role of wetlands in ensuring the security of water supply is also a matter of societal choice.
Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
"By measuring and managing our water impact... we can address longer-term water scarcity issues, " he said.
Their loss and degradation directly intensifies water supply issues and compromises human well-being.
This session aims to explore on how a new paradigm towards an adaptive management can be developed to address water security issues.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has broadened its cooperation with Brazilian military and civilian counterparts on disaster response and water management issues.
Race for Water is the ambassador boat of the Multi One Attitude Foundation, working with UNESCO to use sailing as a means for education and awareness of key water sustainability issues, particularly ocean pollution.
The project is intended to give the authorities the ability to draw water from the Colorado River for the Las Vegas area and guard against water quality issues that are associated with continually dropping lake levels.
As part of that experience, she assisted at a clinic on a nearby Native American reservation, where she learned about water fluoridation issues on tribal land and helped to provide dental care to an at risk population.
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The meeting will address the vision, strategy and analytical framework for growth and efficiency of green initiatives and the international agenda around the following initiatives: Power system transformation, energy efficiency in industry, global water demand issues, bio-refining, trade, aviation and financing.
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The Multi One Attitude Foundation (MOAF), a charitable organisation that aims to use sailing as a means for education and awareness of key water sustainability issues, has joined with UNESCO, to promote a shared mission to raise public understanding of the urgent need to preserve and protect our ocean and fresh water.
The purpose of the Award is to promote efforts to fulfil international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015 through recognition of outstanding best practices that can ensure the long-term sustainable management of water resources and contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed goals and targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
The Year will highlight the history of successful water cooperation initiatives, as well as identify burning issues on water education, water diplomacy, transboundary water management, financing cooperation, national and international legal frameworks, and the linkages with the Millennium Development Goals.
But by far the most common responses I hear have to do with solving global food-water-shelter issues.
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Shripad Dharmadhikary coordinates the Manthan Adhyanan Kendra, a center that researches water and energy issues in India.
Gore spokesman Douglas Hattaway said the endorsement is important because clean air and water are important issues for many voters.
Second, the issue of combined sewer overflows is one of the most difficult water-quality issues faced by cities with old infrastructure like New York City.
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.
All three banks are already in plenty of hot water thanks to issues spanning from allegedly corrupt stock research to "spinning" hot initial public offering shares to investment banking clients in a quid pro quo to land more business from them.
Both oenophiles and salmon lovers can see which vineyards are taking action via Fish Friendly Farming, a certification project from the non-profit and Napa-based California Land Stewardship Institute, which gives its stamp of approval to wineries and farms that work on habitat and water-quality issues.
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
It is selling Cambridge Water to avoid competition issues with the deal.
It provides a succinct overview of the key issues in water management and use in language accessible to diverse stakeholders involved in water adaptation.
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