UN calls water top priority
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Thursday to put the looming crisis over water shortages at the top of the global agenda this year and take action to prevent conflicts over scarce supplies.
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Science & environment: Mangrove ecosystems should be better protected, the UN's food agency has warned
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Sudan and Iraq are top  priorities as the International Committee of the Red Cross launches its 2005 appeal.
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The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
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The United Nations is stepping up its campaign to conserve the world's genetic resources so crops and animals can adapt to global warming and other challenges, focusing on fish for the first time since fish are increasingly being bred to meet the world's food needs.
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The UN secretary general asks world leaders to make an unprecedented response to the Indian Ocean disaster.
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Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.
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More than one billion people drink unsafe water and over 2.6 billion, around 40 percent of the world's population, have no access to basic sanitation, U.N. agencies said on Thursday.
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Heavy rains and floods are  holding up efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunami, but  the United Nations said on Tuesday that "extraordinary  progress" was being made and the total amount of aid pledged  had risen to between $2 billion and $3 billion.
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WATER and sanitation supplies from the United Nations Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF) were slated to arrive in Jamaica last night. The supplies include water purification tablets, water containers, chlorine bleach
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 6--Just because you hold the oldest and highest-priority water right doesn't mean you have an absolute right to that water, the Idaho Supreme Court said Monday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday voiced his hope to an international meeting on water,sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an unprecedented world response to what is an unprecedented wave disaster in the Indian Ocean.
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The United Nations has received a record 1.5 billion dollars in one week in donations after the devastating tidal waves in the Indian Ocean, a UN official said.
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Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
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The World Health Organization issued new guidelines on Tuesday on preventing contamination of drinking water supplies and resultant illnesses.
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Four countries discuss Mekong river water use    HANOI, Dec.