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18 Progress in the Millennium
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3 News in Brief
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17 Water &
In September 2000,
world leaders committed to the Millennium
Development Goals.
Until then, few dared to imagine goals such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, universalizing access
to education or reducing maternal mortality would be
possible. Now, with 500 days left before the end of
2015, the MDGs are less a leap of imagination and more
of a challenge that many leaders feel is within reach.
38 Publications
40 Roundup
41 Calender 2014
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Sanitation Events
32 People
42 Buyers’ Guide
FEATURES
13 Managing wastewater and pollution to
protect water quality
In addition to adequate
volumes of water, social
and economic development is also dependent
on good water quality.
Human activity is the
main cause of pollution that makes water dangerous, expensive or even unusable. There is a need to limit pollution,
manage wastewater and protect and improve the quality of
water thus enabling needs to be met safely.
14 Purifying Water with Nanotech
About 1 of every 6 people
around the world has no
adequate access to water,
and more than twice
that number lack basic
sanitation, for which water is essential, according to the
U.S. National Academy of Engineering. One of the Grand
Challenges for Engineering set forth by the academy aims to
develop technology that will make polluted water potable.
16 Dams will not solve all Africa’s energy
problems
The world’s water experts
convene in Stockholm on
Thursday where King Carl
Gustav will present the
city’s Water Prize to John
Briscoe, a Harvard professor
and former water manager at the World Bank. After many
years spent in the international water bureaucracy, Briscoe
22 It’s slow going for businesses aiming to
tackle Tanzania’s water problems
The semi-arid
country has diminishing
groundwater and a lack
of safe water access.
New public-private
partnerships are springing up, but a lack of trust and
public awareness mean pace is slow
24 Choosing the right post-2015 sanitation
indicators
In just under 500 days,
we will reach the 2015
deadline for the Millennium Development
Goals. Some of those goals will be met, and I hope that
those involved will take a moment to celebrate. But
that isn’t the case for those of us working in the area of
sanitation.
34 Lessons from the Field: Prepaid Water in
Urban Africa
Can prepaid systems
become an instrument
to improve access and
quality of water services
to poor people in African
cities and towns? Or does prepayment deny poor people
more access to water? Do prepaid systems cost too much
and impose more technical, affordability and social
pressure on service providers already struggling to cope
with growing demand? And what do customers think?
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