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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.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Tajik leader, speaking at UN General Assembly calls for urgent action on water

President Emomali Rahmon, addressing the UN General Assembly has urged the world body to convene a special session to review steps taken towards meeting water-related goals (set forth in Millenium Development goals) and identify what steps can be taken to accelerate progress.

Tajikstan has suffered drought, low river levels, and locusts which have resulted in social unrest. Dushanbe will be hosting the World Water Forum in 2010.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28252&Cr=General%20+%20Assembly&Cr1=Debate
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