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How nanotech can meet the poor's water needs
Nanotechnology holds huge potential for supplying clean water to the world's poor, but many challenges must be overcome to realise it.
A wake-up call for Washington
The political effect on the United States of its failure to anticipate Hurricane Katrina's full impact will hopefully generate a more considered attitude to the threat of climate change.
EDITORIAL | 5 September 2005 | EN
'Ecosystem services': a vital term in policy debates
Walter Reid, Robert Watson and Harold Mooney defend the term 'ecosystem services' as an essential way of describing to policymakers the importance of the benefits that people receive from ecosystems.
EDITORIAL | 1 August 2005 | EN
Making every drop of water count
With floods and torrential rains hitting many parts of the world, it is important to remember that the world as a whole faces an increasing shortage of usable water. Increasing the effectiveness with which water is used must become a top priority.
EDITORIAL | 23 August 2004 | EN
Clean water: a neglected research priority
Providing adequate supplies of clean drinking water may not be the most exciting challenge facing scientists working in developing countries. But it is certainly one of the most pressing — and, potentially, the most rewarding.
EDITORIAL | 22 March 2004 | EN
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
