Seas Only Hope for World Water Supply, Says Spain
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The world's fast-growing thirst for water can only be met by purifying sea water as rivers and reservoirs become unable to meet demand, Spain said on Thursday unveiling a major program to fight its own chronic shortages.
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, June 10:  The world's freshwater supply is stressed like never before.
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Spain is set to become one of only a   handful of countries to approve therapeutic cloning, despite   opposition from the Catholic Church.
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World leaders have been flooding President Bush with congratulatory calls since his reelection victory, but at least one -- Spain&#39;s Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -- appears to be having trouble getting through.
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Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said there was "tremendous hope" for reviving the moribund Middle East process after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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Spain could lead the world with the   launch in 2009 or 2010 of the first three-in-one "polypill" to   prevent heart attacks, a top cardiologist advising on the   project said on Saturday.
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The government insists that it will do what it can to support areas of England devastated by flooding.
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Aims To Save 69 Bln Cubic Meters of Water by 2010" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Spanish carrier Iberia does not need to be taken over, its president Fernando Conte said on Wednesday.
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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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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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Only 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, a study shows.
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LEON, Spain : Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder outlined a joint vision of a strong and united Europe bound by tighter defence and economic cooperation ...
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Spain on Thursday said it was flying out a first consignment of aid for victims of floods in Haiti, air force sources said.
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Most rivers, lakes, estuaries and coasts in England and Wales are unlikely to meet new EU rules on water quality, conservationists say.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his hope to an international meeting on water, sanitation and hygiene that one day the world will no longer have to face the dire consequences of inadequate access to safe drinking water and basic