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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.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

World Water Forum under way in Istanbul

The Fifth World Water Forum is under way in Istanbul, Turkey.   The six key themes of this forum are: 1) climate change; 2) Millennium Development Goals; 3) water resource management and protection; 4) financing; 5) knowledge and capacity; and 6) water governance. 

www.worldwaterforum5.org 

At a recent event on water at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, State Department Special Coordinator for Water Resources Aaron Salzberg stated that the US mission to the World Water forum will focus on among other topics financing - especially encouraging public-private in-country partnerships rather than from development assistance. 
Another focus will be managing "hydrologic variability" - i.e. managing water in places where it may downpour for a month and go dry for another eleven; where water supply is uneven and inconsistent.  

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