Press coverage
March 2003:
5 March was the press launch of the 1st UN World Water Development Report
Australia - Australian Broadcasting Corporation: World water crisis looming (5 March 2003): The report (...) contains disturbing forecasts about the declining quality of water in the coming decades right round the world...
Australia - The Age: Fresh water supplies dwindling (5 March 2003): The world will face a water crisis a few decades from now as population growth, pollution and climate change deprive billions of the most precious natural resource of all, a UN report warned...Australia - The daily Telegraph: World fresh water supply dries up: The world will face a water crisis a few decades from now as population growth, pollution and climate change deprive billions of the most precious natural resource of all, a UN report warns...
Australia - Herald Sun: World fresh water supply dries up (5 March 2003): The world will face a water crisis a few decades from now as population growth...
Europe - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: UN: Report Warns Of World Water Crisis In Coming Decades (5 March 2003): A UN report says the world faces a water crisis in the near future as the average water supply per person is expected to drop by one-third in 20 years...
India - The Hindu: Quality of water in India among the worst' (6 March 2003): A world water development report of the United Nations has categorised India among the worst countries for poor quality of water, as well as their ability and commitment to improve the situation...India - Newindpress: 'Water wars' risk not so bad as feared: UN report (5 March 2003): The risk that dwindling supplies of fresh water will spark bloody regional conflicts in dry regions of the world is far smaller than feared, a United Nations report said on Wednesday...
India - keralanext.com: India third among countries that provide worst quality of water (6 March 2003): India has the dubious distinction of being third among 122 countries, which provide the worst quality of water to its citizens...
International - UN Wire: WATER: World Supply To Drop One-Third In 20 Years, U.N. Says (5 March 2003): Worldwide water supply per person is set to drop by a third in the next two decades, and governments stand to worsen the problem by ignoring it, according to a U.N. study released today...
International - Environment News Service: UN: World Water Crisis Due to Leadership Inertia (5 March 2003): A global water crisis of the future is taking shape today, due to 'attitude and behavior problems', on the part of national leaders, says a report made public today written jointly by all United Nations agencies that deal with water...
International - BBC: UN warns of future water crisis (5 March 2003): The world faces an unprecedented crisis in the supply of fresh water due to poor political leadership, according to a major UN report published today... Japan - Japan Times: UNESCO wants water action (6 March 2003): UNESCO will seek concrete action from the upcoming World Water Forum in western Japan following years of failure to seriously address global water goals, the director of the body's World Water Assessment Program said Wednesday...
Morocco - Le Matin: Onu : la crise mondiale de l'eau prendra une ampleur sans précédent (5 mars 2003): Les Nations Unies ont tiré la sonnette d'alarme, en affirmant (...) que la crise mondiale de l'eau prendra dans les années à venir une ampleur sans précédent avec une augmentation du déficit par tête dans de nombreux endroits du monde en développement...
New Zealand - nzoom.com: NZ water third best in the world (7 March 2003): An international report on water ranks New Zealand in the top 10 countries in the world for water availability and quality...
Pakistan - paknews.com: India At The Bottom In UN Water Quality List (7 March 2003): India ranks a poor 120 in a list of 122 countries ranked for their water quality as also their ability and commitment to improving its quality in World Water Development Report...
Scotland - The Scotsman: World's liquid asset is draining away (6 March 2003): 'WATER, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.' So wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He probably didn't foresee it at the time but, almost 170 years after his death, the most quoted line of Coleridge's entire canon of verse is more apposite than ever...United States - ABC news: Water Crisis to Deepen as Supplies Dry Out - U.N. (5 March 2003): World water reserves are drying up fast and booming populations, pollution and global warming will combine to cut the average person's water supply by a third in the next 20 years, the United Nations said on Wednesday...
United States - Washington Post: Threats Posed by Water Scarcity Detailed (5 March 2003): The world's limited reserves of clean, fresh water are shrinking fast, posing a serious threat to public health, political stability and the environment, according to a massive analysis released yesterday by the United Nations...
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