DEVELOPMENT: Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging

...a little less than one billion people worldwide still don't have access to clean drinking water while over 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. .......... Asked if the international community will meet the MDGs relating to water and sanitation by 2015, she said: "Not if we don't change immediate course."

For one, she said, the World Bank needs to stop making water privatisation a condition for their loans. Full Story »

Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
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Topics: Environment, Global Warming, Pollution, Poverty, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Patricia Blochowiak - Aug 23, 2008 - 2:38 PM PDT
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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

This puts together a combination of scientific, political, business, and human interest elements to make a very coherent story.

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Carl Benjamin
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by Carl Benjamin - Oct. 1, 2008

Back in 1969, when I was in college, professors were saying the same thing as this article. It might be a stronger problem now than it was then. Conspiracy theorists will thrive on this article.

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