March 31, 2009 at 5:00 am by Mike Sowden
Water Water Everywhere – But People in the Way?
In the worldwide struggle to get clean water to those in need, it’s people who are the biggest problem.
That’s the conclusion of the World Water Forum, which met this month in Istanbul to examine global water supply problems and offer suggestions to world governments. At the Forum, the United Nations published their summary of the state of world water supplies. In a word – mismanaged. The summary pointed toward the lack of international cooperation, the often unbalanced allocation between commercial, food-producing and domestic supplies and, in particular, the absence of …
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