News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 123
Q&A: Water Will Be Lifeblood of Smart Urban Expansion
- Inter Press Service
The world's water map is being significantly redrawn due primarily to the mass migration of people into urban centres, threatening one of life's vital resources.
CUBA: Petrochemical Complex Poses Major Environmental Challenge
- Inter Press Service
As it gears up for the creation of a major petrochemical complex of regional scope, this Cuban city faces the challenge of ensuring the sustainability of development that could compromise the health of the Bay of Cienfuegos, its main natural resource.
Q&A: 'Governments Must Listen to the People, Not the Polluters'
- Inter Press Service
The historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro marked one of the world's seminal international conferences on the environment, creating or reinforcing a slew of U.N. treaties and protocols on climate change, biodiversity, desertification and forests.
Ethnocentric Fishing Practices Threaten Hawaiian Communities
- Inter Press Service
As the world gears up to celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Aug. 9, a joint lawsuit filed Wednesday in Hawaii's Federal District Court against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals the interconnectedness of environmental destruction and violations of native people's rights.
Water as Basic Human Right Has a Market Price, Says U.N. Chief
- Inter Press Service
As the 193-member General Assembly commemorates the first anniversary of its landmark resolution pronouncing water and sanitation to be a basic human right, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon triggered a political controversy last week when he implicitly declared that even human rights have a market price.
BRAZIL: Efforts to Improve Water Quality Falling Short
- Inter Press Service
Despite increased spending on sanitation works, the water quality in rivers near large urban centers in Brazil ranges from poor to very poor. Some say the reason is the development model chosen by the South American nation.
Famine Relief in Somalia Stymied by Access
- Inter Press Service
While an estimated 12.4 million people linger on the brink of starvation in the Great Horn of Africa, U.S. officials and world relief agencies said Monday that even in a 'best case scenario' the crisis will worsen as the areas in most desperate need remain cut off from access to relief.
Water Crisis Offers Chance for Unity over Strife
- Inter Press Service
As record-breaking temperature highs and rapidly melting ice caps fuel fears about impending 'water wars', some experts in Washington say that the threat of full-blown conflict is exaggerated, adding that robust institutions and solid treaties could transform water crises into international cooperation.
Data Shows All of Earth's Systems in Rapid Decline
- Inter Press Service
Protecting bits of nature here and there will not prevent humanity from losing our life support system. Even if areas dedicated to conserving plants, animals, and other species that provide Earth's life support system increased tenfold, it would not be enough without dealing with the big issues of the 21st century: population, overconsumption and inefficient resource use.
PAKISTAN: After the Flood, Green Homes
- Inter Press Service
Subhan Khatoon’s brand new home is nothing like the one that got washed away, along with all her worldly goods, in the 2010 monsoon floods that submerged a fifth of Pakistan and left 2,000 people dead.
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