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World Water Day 2010: Water Quality

Life on earth is based on water. The quality of life directly depends on water quality. Healthy ecosystems are sustained by good water quality, which leads to improved human well-being. On the contrary, poor water quality affects the environment and human well-being. With waterborne diseases causing the death of more than 1.5 million children every year and 2 million tons of sewage and other effluents draining into the world’s waters every day, we all need to be more aware of what water quality is all about.

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Joint training initiative

FAO and UNW-DPC, the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development, in collaboration with local partners, have organized a series of workshop to improve partecipants' skills in strategic management toward increasing crop water productivity in rainfed and irrigated production systems.
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Visit AquaCrop workshop pages

Google and UN-Habitat establish partnership to improve data collection

UN-HABITAT has launched a joint project in Zanzibar with Google.org to improve access to information on water coverage, assess the level of satisfaction by customers of the Zanzibar Water Authority, and evaluate efficiency in the delivery of services by the authority.
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UNICEF's safety kit for Haiti's emergencies

Safe water and sanitation facilities are critical to the survival of children. UNICEF' supply division has identified water safety and sanitation supplies that are vital for early emergency response. Click on the link below to have a UNICEF technical Officer explain the basic family water kit.
UNICEF basic family water kit

Updates on the 4th World Water Development Report (WWDR4)

The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is pleased to invite you to comment on the newly released annotated Table of Contents for the fourth edition of the UN World Water Development Report (WWDR4). As a unique, global report which aims to inform us all, WWAP hopes to receive your comments and contributions throughout the development of the Report. Please join us in its preparation by sharing your comments with us through the
public consultation for the annotated Table of Contents of the WWDR4

SIWI Releases First Announcement
for World Water Week 2010

The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) has released a Call for Workshop Abstracts and Seminar and Side Event Proposals for the 20th World Water Week in Stockholm from the 5th - 11th September.
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View / Download 2009 World Water Week Conclusions (PDF 2 MB)

FAO's Rural Water Livelihoods Index

The Rural Water Livelihoods Index (RWLI) attempts to assess some of the more fundamental, water-related components which influence rural livelihoods, and which can support rural poverty reduction. In this way it can help decision makers target investments more effectively, ensuring funds get allocated to where there is most need.
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