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Barcelona floats creative solution to water crisis (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Lisa Abend \ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / May 15, 2008 edition http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/05/15/barcelonafloatscreativ esolutiontowatercrisis/ With Spain's average rainfall down 40 percent last year, many cities have restricted residents from filling their swimming pools ...
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World Mayors Propose Urban Water Declaration (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: , Worldwatch Institute, More from this Affiliate Published April 1, 2008 09:40 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/33921 Ankara, Turkey's capital and second largest city, dried up last summer. Faced with low rainfall ...
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Essay - Urbanization and the future of Sudan (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Source: The Social Science Research Council Blog Author: Munzoul Assal Posting Date: January 29, 2008 Sudanis one of the fastest urbanizing countries in the world. Population figures show that the country was already 40% urbanized in 2005 and that figure excludes ...
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Urban Ecology - Taking Measure Of The Coming Megacity's Impact (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
nbsp;URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207140801.htm ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2008) If you are reading this, chances are that you live in a city \\ one, perhaps, on its way to becoming a megacity with a population that exceeds 10 million or more. If not, you and most of the world's population ...
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Asian Nations Face 'Unprecedented"'Water Crisis, ADB (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45643/story.htm SINGAPORE: November 30, 2007 \\ (Reporting by Daryl Loo, editing by Neil Chatterjee and Sanjeev Miglani) \\ \\ \\ {}SINGAPORE Developing countries in Asia could face an "unprecedented" water crisis within a decade due ...
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