Troubled waters /
Each year, a different United Nations agency is selected to coordinate all of the international events surrounding World Water Day, and a different theme is chosen to reflect the many facets of freshwater resources. In 2006, UNESCO ran the show, selecting Belgian photojournalist Dieter Telemans to p...
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| Language Notes: | Texts translated into French and Dutch, p. 198-207. |
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Schoten :
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Table of Contents:
- Desertification. Kenya and Ethiopia
- Drought in the Horn of Africa. Floods. Bangladesh: flood victims
- Haiti: flood ravages
- India: tsunami. Lack of opportunities. Mali: water transport.
- Health / Sanitation / Urbanisation. India: from rural poverty to urban misery
- China: pollution poisons progress
- Aral Sea: the missing sea. Agriculture / Conflict. Ethiopia and Egypt: the Nile treaty
- Turkey: the world's biggest irrigation project
- Chad: war refugees. Water management. Spain: the cost of golf
- Australia: fight against salinity.