Mars 2003
Retombées de la parution du Rapport mondial sur la mise en valeur des ressources en eau des Nations Unies publié le 5 mars 2003
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...
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...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 behaviour 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...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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