Responsible agricultural water management will make a major contribution to future global water security.
Water cooperation is essential to guarantee a decent daily life and basic well-being to all by providing water security .
Beyond the economic malaise, this year's meeting will also focus on global risks associated with climate change, food and water security.
During the five-day Forum, participants will discuss climate change, demographic changes, indigenous knowledge, the transition to a green economy and water security.
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 panel on water security highlighted the key role of water in achieving sustainable development goals and moving towards a green economy.
Carl Ganter is co-founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and is vice chariman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security.
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He said water security was fundamental to increased farming production.
To tackle one of the biggest challenges we face in the 21st century, we need to continue to find innovative ways to cooperate and work together to provide water security for all.
This publication summarizes various recent policy documents and international conference reports on the subject of water resources management, many of which stress the urgent need for action to address declining global water security.
Officially launched by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO and Michel Jarraud, Chair to UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, the event brought together government representatives, local communities, NGOs, UN organizations and eminent specialists in water security to discuss how to harness cooperation at all levels, from the local to the national and international levels, and across all socioeconomic sectors.
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.
Keep in mind, however, that the study was commissioned by the Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition.
Several neighborhoods around New Orleans will have electricity, water and security, but businesspeople there, like those everywhere, need something else, too.
As part of the creeping implementation of the peace deal, the UN do have a presence here, and they were helping provide water and security at a school where 160 child soldiers, apparently abandoned by the RUF the previous week, were being "demobilised" and looked after.
Drummond Modley, from Wessex Water, said the pipeline was needed to improve the "security of water supply" for 88, 000 customers in Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset.
In most cases, the local police departments do not have the level of training or legal authority that the Coast Guard has to conduct the water-based security missions and interventions.
That, at least, is the bucket-of-cold-water opinion of Gartner security industry analyst John Pescatore.
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The British charity Oxfam said it was sending water engineers and food security experts on Wednesday to assess the extent of the damage.
The essential issues now were no longer of the to-be-or-not-to-be variety, but simpler, more easily compromised questions of where to locate the borders and how to share water and ensure mutual security.
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Under WMO leadership, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services contribute substantially to the protection of life and property against natural disasters, to safeguarding the environment and to enhancing the economic and social well-being of all sectors of society in areas such as food security, water resources and transport.
To launch concrete initiatives to address the water, energy, food security nexus in a coherent and sustainable way.
The constitution empowers the state as the guarantor of education, health care, food, social security, and water resources for its inhabitants.
The Ecuadorian constitution empowers the state as the guarantor of education, health care, food, social security, and water resources for its inhabitants.
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On Wednesday, security forces used water cannon against loyalists after being attacked with a blast bomb at an Eleventh Night bonfire in Portadown.
In the field of the sciences, the issue of water was at the center of discussions, as well as the link between water, energy and food security.
These meetings have reached similar conclusions: The water, energy and food security nexus will be one of the major challenges in achieving universal access to these resources without compromising the health and stability of the environment.
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