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Stockholm Water Front No. 4 2005

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Since the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, water professionals have been working to develop a land/water integration in a catchment-based “ecosystem approach”. However, the “ecosystem approach” means different things to different people. To some, it is based on the needs of the ecosystem. To others, it is based on the needs of the people who use the ecosystem. More of these contrasting interpretations and other interesting topics you can read about in this issue of Water Front.

Stockholm Water Front No. 3 2005

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This years World Water Week put focus on how to find the balance between the need for hard and soft solutions, or between the need for more infrastructure versus improved management. This issue of Water Front gives an overview of the productive week and the most important outcomes such as the pros and cons of new infrastructure for water resources development, conveyance, allocation and environmental flow, and for water supply and sanitation services.

Future Dams – Recommendations to Swedish Stakeholders on Implementing Dams and Development A New Framework for Decision Making

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This Policy Brief contains recommendations for Swedish actors implementation of “Dams and Development, A New Framework for Decision-Making” which was launched by the World Commission on Dams (WCD) in November 2000. The recommendations are made by the Swedish Committee for Water and Dam Issues (SKVD) and their main purpose is to help ensure that dams and other water infrastructure projects with Swedish involvement are ecologically, economically and socially sustainable.

Click here to read the Policy Brief in Swedish.

Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take?

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This report, the abridged version of the full report Health, Dignity, and Development: What Will It Take? underscores the need to focus on the global sanitation crisis, improve domestic water supply and invest in integrated development and management of water resources. All are necessary for countries to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability.

The actions proposed in this report are based on sound principles and fundamental truths and contributes to the understanding of the broader water resources management actions needed to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

Securing Sanitation: The Compelling Case to Address the Crisis

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Sanitation and the means to practice hygienic behaviors yield direct benefits in terms of health, education and economic productivity. Lack of access to this most basic of needs is an assault against human dignity.

This report lays out the economic case for investing in sanitation: 1.47 billion people (20% of the worlds population) stand to benefit if the target is met and the economic benefits could be as high as USD 65 billion annually.

Stockholm Water Front No. 2 2005

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Collaboration and Capacity building is the key to the reality of a sustainable use of the worlds water resources and sustainable development of societies. The World Water Week in Stockholm has long been a capacity building event because it helps to equip professionals from different fields with the knowledge and tools to perform their jobs better. This issue of Water Front will equip you with 2005 years World Water Week topics and programme, as well as an interview of 2005 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate: the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi, India.

Stockholm Water Front No.1 2005

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Solving the world’s water and sanitation crisis would be expensive. But it would save far more than it cost, it would unlock huge potential, and it would improve countless lives. The Governments of Norway and Sweden commissioned the Stockholm International Water Institute to quantify the economic benefits of improved water management and services. The reports findings demonstrate just how much good macroeconomic sense it makes to end the crisis. Read more in this issue of Water Front.

2005 Synthesis Report: Drainage Basin Management Hard and Soft Solutions in Regional Development

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Often solutions to water policy issues can only be found as part of broader packages that relate to wider issues of national and international policy and development. 2005 years focus on Drainage Basin Management Hard and Soft Solutions in Regional Development placed very challenging topics on the discussion table.

Challenges of Water Scarcity: A Business Case Study for Financial Institutions

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Many regions face as situation where water is distributed unevenly in time and space. With increasing population and its legitimate demand for improved livelihood, entailing expansion of industrial and agriculture sectors, there is an enormous challenge in the allocation, use and protection of limited water resources.

The purpose of this report is to mobilise the financial sector to pay greater attention to the global challenges of water scarcity. The report analyses common types of risks for projects and investments as a result of water scarcity conditions and provides financial institutions with a framework for how to develop a proactive approach to face scarcity challenges.

Key Recommendations: Health, Dignity, and Development

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This is a brochure version of The UN Millennium Project Task Force on Water and Sanitations key recommendations on how to increase access to water and sanitation. The report underscores the need to focus on the global sanitation crisis which contributes to the death of 3,900 children each day, to increase access to domestic water supply, and to invest in integrated development and management of water resources. All are necessary for countries to reduce poverty and hunger, improve health, advance gender equality, and ensure environmental sustainability.