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Portable, Potable Solutions to the World’s Water Crisis

Among the most important resources in the world, in terms of both human survival and global conflict, is potable drinking water. Access to clean drinking water is tangled up in nearly every health crisis around the world, and i...
by Urban Times
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Water, Water Everywhere

Last May, when Ethiopia began diverting the course of the Blue Nile as part of a project aimed at building the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa, Egypt’s reaction was fierce. Following the June 1st report of the trilateral...
by Anna Lazzarin
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Water Stewardship: Bringing Together Business And Conservation

Water is the earth’s most precious resource. Though we live on a ‘blue planet’, less than one per cent of water is actually accessible as freshwater. Water is essential to human survival, to the natural environment, to th...
by Alexis McGivern
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3rd Arab Water Week: A Chance To End The Global Rhetoric On Clean Drinking Water

The shortage of clean drinking water is a growing global issue, with almost a billion people living without adequate freshwater resources around the world.
by Tímea Fazekas
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Water, Water Everywhere, Only If We Share

  When you think of what you need to survive, what comes to mind? Food? Air? Water? Facebook? As renowned survivalist Bear Grylls stated in an interview with GQ magazine last year, the key is in the rule of three...
by Urban Times
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Disorder On The Nile As Power Shifts Towards Ethiopia

Since the fall of Mubarak, Egypt’s political instability and internal strife have severely weakened its once hegemonic status among the East African states. This has seen its neighbours, most notably Ethiopia, begin to outrig...
by Marc Scarisbrick
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Raising Awareness Through Water and Ink [Video]

Drinking a healthy amount of clean water is essential to our survival. We need clean water to function and be productive additions to society. But how many of us actually have access to clean drinking water? Currently, it is...
by Urban Times
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Water Facts {Infographic}

Did you know that more than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes? Nearly all deaths, 99 percent, occur in the developing world. And did you know that “[the water and sanitat...
by Natasha Lipman
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The State of Water: Ethiopia

Water is the greatest necessity in life; however, consumption of contaminated water is one of the biggest killers in the world. Ethiopia, situated in horn of Africa, a region prone to droughts and subsequent famine, faces acute...
by Daniel Wasonga
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