UN Launches Major Campaign to Get Water Into Schools
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The United Nations will launch a global  campaign Monday aimed at ensuring every school in the world has  clean water and sanitation within a decade, cutting health  risks and raising attendance.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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Children in Gaza and Zimbabwe desperately need help to ensure they have food, clean water and schooling, and international aid is running short, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.
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The United Nations is adopting  new steps in its global tsunami-relief campaign to guard  against improprieties like those alleged in the oil-for-food  program for Iraq, U.N. officials said Monday.
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The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.
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By Georgia Tasker, The Miami Herald Feb. 19--As the United Nations Environmental Program launches its 24th global council meeting, Fisher Island photographer Joe Zammit-Lucia is displaying environmental photos at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
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Hilary Swank kicked off a round-the-world run Friday to raise awareness of the world's 1.1 billion people who lack access to clean drinking water.
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Why running water may mean a better education for some Afghan children.
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The United Nations called on donors  Tuesday to set a record by meeting in full its $1.0 billion  appeal for immediate aid to victims of Asia's tsunami, and  pledged to be open about how the money was spent.
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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 UN launches a global initiative to tackle the growing mountain of electrical and electronic waste.
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The United Nations called on Romanian authorities to help the thousands of HIV infected children here attend school with other children, in a statement released Tuesday.
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A water teaching centre has celebrated 10 years of educating children about the environment.   Welsh Water's environmental education centre at Cilfynydd, near Pontypridd, has welcomed more than 33,000 schoolchildren since it opened in 1997.
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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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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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The World Health Organization, UNICEF and other partners are launching a large-scale polio immunization campaign in 23 African countries.
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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