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Category: Op-ed and Blogs

National-level Targets, Indicators and Benchmarks for Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
14Feb

National-level Targets, Indicators and Benchmarks for Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

by admin in Op-ed and Blogs
Originally posted by IISD: SDG Knowledge Hub , 14 February 2019 Authors: Chris Dickens, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Vladimir Smakhtin, UNU-INWEH, Matthew McCartney, IWMI Southeast Asia (IWMI-SEA), Gordon O’Brien,...
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Removing Arsenic from Groundwater: We Have the Tools, Let’s Use Them
01Feb

Removing Arsenic from Groundwater: We Have the Tools, Let’s Use Them

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Originally posted by Inter Press Service News Agency, 1 February 2019 Authors: Yina Shan, Praem Mehta, Duminda Perera and Yurissa Varela Cost-effective technologies are available to remove arsenic in groundwater....
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Quenching Humanity’s Freshwater Thirst Creates a Salty Threat
18Jan

Quenching Humanity’s Freshwater Thirst Creates a Salty Threat

by admin in Op-ed and Blogs
Originally posted by Inter Press Service News Agency, 18 January 2019 Authors: Edward Jones, Wageningen University, Vladimir Smakhtin, Director (UNU-INWEH) Manzoor Qadir, Assistant Director (UNU-INWEH) Starting from a few, mostly...
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A Starting Point to Solve the Global Water Crisis
11Sep

A Starting Point to Solve the Global Water Crisis

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By Lisa Guppy, UNU-INWEH In 2010, the United Nations declared access to safe, clean drinking water and sanitation to be a human right. Five years later, UN Member States reaffirmed...
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Toward a world free of untreated wastewater: breaking the Catch-22 situation faced by developing countries
22Mar

Toward a world free of untreated wastewater: breaking the Catch-22 situation faced by developing countries

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By Manzoor Qadir Policies and investments that move from mitigation to prevention make wastewater profitable and safe for public health The use of untreated wastewater in low-income countries faces a...
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“Superbugs” evolving from poorly or untreated wastewater
18Nov

“Superbugs” evolving from poorly or untreated wastewater

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By Manzoor Qadir and Chris Metcalfe, UNU-INWEH From its origin in 2013, the U.N.’s annual World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, has inspired many light-hearted headlines but it underlines a deadly...
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