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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Monday, November 3, 2008

ADB funds Chinese Efforts to Create Framework for Water Management

http://finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22723&Itemid=50

The Asian Development Bank will provide a half million dollar grant to China to help prepare a framework for managing the allocation of water resources. There is great disparity in water allocation in China now - with, for example, massive volumes of water being diverted to quench the Beijing Olympics to the detriment of surrounding provinces.

"China has 20% of the world’s population but just 7% of its fresh water. The north of the country accounts for 45% of total population and 65% of fertile land but only 19% of water resources. On the other hand, the south comprises 55% of total population and 35% of fertile land but 81% of water resources."
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