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WaterAid News: November 2010
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Wednesday, 24 November 2010. WaterAid's 3rd Africa Water Week blog. WaterAid took part in the 3rd Africa Water Week, 22-26 November, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Africa Water Week is an annual conference led by the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW). The theme of this year's Africa Water Week is 'Implementing the Africa Water Vision and meeting the MDG targets: Challenges and opportunities in water and sanitation', and is divided into the following sub-themes:. 3Water, Climate and Development.
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WaterAid News: May 2012
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Tuesday, 29 May 2012. Views from Africa water week WW.mp4. Friday, 25 May 2012. WaterAid pushes for regional ministerial and parliamentary cooperation on water and sanitation. From left: D. Sozzi, (from Ministry of Water and Environment), Hon. Maria Mutagamba, Bethlehem. Mengistu and Nelson Gomonda. The main issues discussed in the meeting with the Minister included:. The formalising working relationship with the minister to leverage regional and pan African policy influencing and advocacy; and. The Mini...
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WaterAid News: February 2010
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010. Ready for a peaks Challenge? WaterAid is looking for groups of friends and colleagues or corporate teams keen on attempting to climb the six highest peaks in the British Isles in just 72 hours. They will visit the Isle of Man, Wales, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, scaling a mountain in each location (see map, right). The 6 Peaks Challenge. Has so far raised £750,000 to help people in 17 developing countries. We're hoping the 2010 6 Peaks Chal...
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WaterAid News: Quenching the thirst: Highlights from the 4th Africa Water Week 2012
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012. Quenching the thirst: Highlights from the 4th Africa Water Week 2012. To quench Africa’s thirst for water, cooperation is not a choice but a matter of imperative. Monday 14, 2012,. Anniversary of the African Minister’s Council of Water (AMCOW), the body who convene Africa Water Week. This being the first day of Africa Water Week, the. AMCOW General Assembly was held, officially opened by the Prime Minister of. Egypt Dr. Kamal ElGanzouri. Key issues from the AMCOW General Assembly.
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WaterAid News: July 2010
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Thursday, 29 July 2010. WaterAid welcomes UN recognition of right to water and sanitation. The UN General Assembly voted in favour of recognising the right to water and sanitation in a resolution made yesterday in New York. Over 120 countries voted for the resolution, which was proposed by Bolivia. States recognised that more than 884 million people lack access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion have no basic sanitation. It is however regretful that the vote wasn't passed by consensus, which exposes ...
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WaterAid News: WaterAid pushes for regional ministerial and parliamentary cooperation on water and sanitation
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Friday, 25 May 2012. WaterAid pushes for regional ministerial and parliamentary cooperation on water and sanitation. From left: D. Sozzi, (from Ministry of Water and Environment), Hon. Maria Mutagamba, Bethlehem. Mengistu and Nelson Gomonda. The main issues discussed in the meeting with the Minister included:. The formalising working relationship with the minister to leverage regional and pan African policy influencing and advocacy; and. The Minister’s ambassadorship in advocating the implementatio...
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WaterAid News: December 2009
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009. Not so wonderful Copenhagen. After almost two weeks of discussions at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, world leaders came to an international agreement for tackling climate change that no country was "entirely satisfied" with, according to US officials. The outcome - a decision to "take note of" an accord drawn up by a core group of heads of state on Friday evening - is far from the legally binding treaty which some had expected and for which many had hoped. One billion people ...
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WaterAid News: January 2010
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Tuesday, 19 January 2010. Worst job in the world? New report from WaterAid uncovers the dirty truth about manual scavenging in India. In a hard-hitting new report, Burden of Inheritance. PDF 113MB) , WaterAid is calling for strong action to eradicate manual scavenging — the job of physically removing human excrement from toilets. Burden of Inheritance outlines how over one million people in the country continue to scrape an existence through manual scavenging, forced largely by social convention. India's...
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WaterAid News: April 2010
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Thursday, 29 April 2010. New hope of action to end global sanitation and water crisis. WaterAid, together with global campaign group End Water Poverty, today welcomed the launch of a new global partnership to accelerate efforts to bring clean water and safe sanitation to millions more people across the globe. They warned, however, that unless rich countries did more to honour their promises they would be betraying the hopes of 2.6 billion people who currently lack access to safe sanitation. Yakub Hossain...
