Disputes over shared water resources have led to violence and continue to raise local, national and even international tensions.

关于共享水资源的争端导致了暴力，并继续加剧地方、国家乃至国际紧张局势。

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Much of the wasted water is lost through what the International water Association, an industry body, calls "background leakage" -that is, small but widespread cracks that drip water continuously.

国际水协会(一个行业团体)认为，大部分浪费的水是“底面渗漏”，即水是从分布在管道各处的缝隙中滴滴渗出的。

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Water is available, thanks to international aid organizations.

由于国际救援组织的努力，人们仍然可以得到水的供应。

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Officials from the International Water Management Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute are also taking part in the effort.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The United States Agency for International Development provided one million dollars for the Water and Livelihoods Initiative.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

During its yearly World Water Day observance last month it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The interview, conducted by Mr. Bert Diphoorn, UN-Water vice chair, shed light on international water strategy and policy and the effectiveness of collaboration to achieve water sustainability and to meet global demand for potable water, as well as on the role of the water-food-energy nexus in sustainable growth.

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In the framework of its ISARM project, UNESCO-IHP participated in close partnership with the French Water Academy, the International Office for Water and the French Geological Survey (BRGM) in the preparation of a methodological study, launched by the French Development Agency (AFD) in order to efficiently contribute to take up the challenges of the sustainable management of transboundary aquifers.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the ??United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation?. The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increase in demand for water access, allocation and services.

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