2008 is the International Year of Sanitation (IYS), WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) has taken the opportunity to make sanitation a major focus in its 2008 update report, entitled 'Progress on Drinking-water and Sanitation: special focus on sanitation.' This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking-water and sanitation, and analyses what these trends suggest for the remainder of the UN Decade 'Water for Life' (2005 - 2015).
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Participatory monitoring is a powerful tool to prevent and solve conflicts. The CAO gained extensive experience in this field during its involvement in the Yanacocha Project in Peru. The CAO has produced a series of monographs with lessons learned from its work around the Yanacocha mining project. This advisory piece takes these lessons one step further by providing hands-on guidance for implementing successful participatory monitoring programs. The report provides examples of practical models t more...
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'The Mekong Delta Water Resources project sought to rehabilitate water control infrastructure- salinity intrusion, irrigation, drainage, flood protection and rural drinking water supply - in 5 subproject areas covering more than 500,000 ha, to enhance productivity of the agricultural sector and increase rural incomes.
Engineering plans were modified during project implementation to introduce greater flexibility in the operation of sluice gates and allow a shift in land use from rice to cash cro more...
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'We all know that ageing and decaying is a natural process but like with life we need to take all steps to slow the ageing process, maintain these dams reservoirs. Otherwise this vital national assets would not only lose its ability gradually to serve the people of this country but also can be potentially life threatening to you, the very same people that it is supposed to serve,' says Ms Naoko Ishii, World Bank country Director, Sri Lanka at the launch of the 'Dam Safety and Water Resources P more...
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The World Water Week in Stockholm promotes the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civil society communities, thereby advancing the water, environment, health, livelihood and poverty reduction agendas.
It does so by:
• Building capacity for different professions to act positively by facilitating an increased knowledge and a deeper understanding of the links between water-societyenvironment-economy,
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Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research (GNEEDER), an NGO, the Centre for Youth, Family and the Law, a community-based organisation, and the Sustainable Ibadan Project, a quasi-governmental organisation joined forces to find a solution to the problem of water pollution arising from the disposition of abattoir waste. Instead of getting rid of such waste, technology is being used to turn them into biogas benefitting more than 5400 families.
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'The ‘Working for Wetlands’ Programme undertakes wetlands restoration across South Africa. Its guiding principle is to restore degraded wetlands to enhance water supplies and conserve biodiversity for the benefit of society. Also, by employing the most disadvantaged to undertake this task (from six to twenty-four months), the pay, skills and experience obtained provide participants with the opportunity to escape poverty. Hence, the Programme selects its employees from among the long term un more...
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