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Halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 is a UN Millennium Development Goal. But equally important are issues of agricultural water management and multilateral water treaties.
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Opinions and Analysis
Risk research needed for water nanotechnology
Nanotechnology could help make drinking water safe, but the risks have to be weighed, say Thembela Hillie and Mbhuti Hlophe.
25 October 2007
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Source: Nature Nanotechnology
Clean environment, clean bill of health
Policymakers must plan for healthier environments now to avoid unnecessary loss of life, says an editorial in The Lancet.
Biofuel crops could drain developing world dry
10 May 2007
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Policy Briefs
People, deserts and drylands in the developing world
Growing dryland populations are depleting their natural resources, while increasingly-settled agriculture ignores the traditional knowledge needed to tackle future uncertainties, says David Thomas.
1 October 2006
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Improving access to water in deserts and drylands
With water scarcity already affecting over a billion people, dryland populations should combine traditional and modern knowledge to manage water access sustainably, says Theib Oweis.
26 September 2006
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News and Features
Sanitation 'crucial' for tackling water-borne disease
A new WHO report concludes that effective and affordable methods for tackling sanitation are essential to control water-borne diseases.
1 July 2008
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Less pollution means more drought for Amazon rainforest
Research indicates that falls in Northern Hemisphere aerosol pollution will bring more frequent drought to the Amazonian rainforest.
South Asia News in brief: 1–15 March 2008
20 March 2008
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Information Services
Beating the
food price hikes
Using scientific methods to raise yields can combat rising food prices for the rural poor
The biofuels dilemma can be solved at sea
The case against growing biofuels on land is mounting. Let's grow seaweed instead
