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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The World Health Organization (WHO) issued new drinking water guidelines on Tuesday to help prevent water-related outbreaks and disease.
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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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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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UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (KOH&#39;-fee AN&#39;-nan) is calling for &quot;an unprecedented global response&quot; to the tsunami that&#39;s killed at least 119 thousand people in south Asia.
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Flooding in central Mozambique threatens some 285,000 people, an official has said, warning that the next three weeks would be critical as a UN agency made a plea for international aid.
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Protection of fresh water needs prompt clarification and strengthening in the United States.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - The United Nations will launch  a global appeal for $30 million in emergency aid to help Haiti  recover from floods that killed hundreds of people, the  executive director of UNICEF said on Wednesday on a visit to  the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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UNITED NATIONS A high-level panel is calling for changes in the United Nations to better handle global threats in the 21st century.
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Summit faces issue of water vs.
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan has selected former President Clinton to be the U.N. point man for tsunami reconstruction and ensure that the world doesn't forget the immense needs of the countries devastated by the Dec. 26 disaster, a well-informed U.N. diplomat said Tuesday.
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The UN children's fund urges young orphans of the disaster to be prioritised ahead of an aid summit.
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Introducing a global water ETF.
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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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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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BEIJING, Sept. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In many parts of the world, good quality fresh water resources are becoming increasingly scarce.