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Len Abrams
 

As the size of The Water Page grows and the number of features, sections and articles on the page increases,
it is becoming increasingly difficult to see what is available and to find the resources you need. Three methods are suggested:
a) Perhaps the easiest method is to use the Search Facility (it is in the top right-hand corner of each page).
b) Browse through the past and present features below;
c) Use the Site Map.
Recent Features

November 2003

How much water does it take to make beer? HR Wallingford, with funding from the British Government (DFID), publishes a Handbook for the Assessment of Catchment Water Demand and Use - very practicle and useful.
October 2003

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has introduced a new publication series. The Water Policy Briefing series presents new perspectives and solutions to water problems in developing countries.

June 2003

Faith, development and poverty - Reflections - Article 1 Exploring the meaning of things and the role of faith and faith communities in development

May 2003

Water Resources Management web based information An index with 30 different themes and 247 references - this will grow in time - Making it easier to find information on the Web

Kyoto Ministerial Statement Anything new in here?
February / March 2003

- Confusing Cause and Effect - Poverty, Development & the Environment The threat to the environment in the North is excess and in the South is poverty, therefore the solutions are different - development is the only chance to restore the balance in the South.

The Abuja Ministerial Declaration on Water A Milestone or Just Another Statement? (Review pdf document - 40KB)

South Africa produces a draft national policy paper on Water Services (Review pdf document - 741KB)
November / December 2002
Rand Water in South Africa and the Fluoridation question
Rand Water's concerns are convincing and make the most common-sense case yet for not fluoridating drinking water.
August 2002
* Southern African Drought Crisis 2002 - Details and links as Southern Africa again faces crisis.
 * The BDP Water and Sanitiation Cluster - A feature on the Cluster, its activities and outputs.
* International Discourse on the Nile - An independant initiative run by a Steering Committee drawn from NGOs, academics, journalists and other civil society representatives from the ten Nile Basin countries and the international development scene.
May 2002
* African Ministerial Conference on Water (AMCOW) inaugurated in Abuja, Nigeria on 30 April 2002 - all the documents.
* Feature on the Yangtze River, China
* America's largest weed - water guzzling Eucalyptus trees which are invasive alien plants.
* Inter-American Development Bank Seminar: "Strategic Issues in Water Use and Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Action Agenda", Fortaleza, Brazil - 7 March 2002.
March 2002
* Water in Animism - Examining the relationship between animism and water around the world, with dozens of examples of how water features in the belief systems of indigenous peoples around the world - fascinating and well worth the read...
January 2002
* Putting Fluoride in Water Supplies The debate goes on regarding the fluoridation of public water supplies. This brief article provides the basic background to the debate and provides a variety of links to those who are both ardently for and against.
December 2001
* Water for Basic Needs Commissioned by the World Health Organisation as input to 1st World Water Development Report
* Bonn Freshwater Conference, 3-7 December 2001 Documents, comments and a few photos from the conference
November 2001
* New feature - Ecological Sanitation - a way of looking at life rather than just dealing with waste.
* The Aral Sea - the disaster continues.
* Information accumulates in the