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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Wasted resource
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The nation joined the international community in observing World Water Day on March 22 amid warnings by some analysts that the next major wars will be fought over fresh water.

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Philippine Ambassador to Sweden Maria Zeneida Angara Collinson said the Philippines was given its largest and most prominent role so far in the World Water Week 2011 in Stockholm.

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Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world's gross domestic product — or $198 billion per year — could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a UN official said Friday.

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The 20th World Water Week Friday issued a statement calling on the forthcoming High Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals to pay more attention to water and sanitation at its concluding session.

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Climate change is creating another problem: a shortage of fresh water, which in turn could lead to a food crisis. Among the most vulnerable regions is Asia, where booming populations and water resource mismanagement could lead to disastrous food shortages.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3497/startoonthumb.gif ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 12180 [Title] => World Water Week to focus on climate change, biofuels [Summary] =>

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Climate change and a potential water shortage in some regions, also due to the diversion of water to crops for biofuels, will be at the centre of the 2007 World Water Week which opens here Monday, with 2,500 international experts expected to attend.

The theme of the annual event's 17th edition will be "Progress and Prospects on Water: Striving for Sustainability in a Changing World."
Organiser Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) noted that water was playing a key role in global warming.
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[DatePublished] => 2005-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

WORLD WATER WEEK
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                    [ArticleID] => 790443
                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Wasted resource
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The nation joined the international community in observing World Water Day on March 22 amid warnings by some analysts that the next major wars will be fought over fresh water.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img163/1653/startoonthumbdf.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 725153 [Title] => Phl success stories make splash in World Water Week [Summary] =>

Philippine Ambassador to Sweden Maria Zeneida Angara Collinson said the Philippines was given its largest and most prominent role so far in the World Water Week 2011 in Stockholm.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-09 16:10:55 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 720630 [Title] => Report urges world to secure drinking water access [Summary] =>

Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world's gross domestic product — or $198 billion per year — could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a UN official said Friday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-26 21:52:21 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 610613 [Title] => World Water Week calls for more attention on water, sanitation [Summary] =>

The 20th World Water Week Friday issued a statement calling on the forthcoming High Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals to pay more attention to water and sanitation at its concluding session.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-10 22:00:56 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 498128 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Water crisis [Summary] =>

Climate change is creating another problem: a shortage of fresh water, which in turn could lead to a food crisis. Among the most vulnerable regions is Asia, where booming populations and water resource mismanagement could lead to disastrous food shortages.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/3497/startoonthumb.gif ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 12180 [Title] => World Water Week to focus on climate change, biofuels [Summary] =>

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Climate change and a potential water shortage in some regions, also due to the diversion of water to crops for biofuels, will be at the centre of the 2007 World Water Week which opens here Monday, with 2,500 international experts expected to attend.

The theme of the annual event's 17th edition will be "Progress and Prospects on Water: Striving for Sustainability in a Changing World."
Organiser Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) noted that water was playing a key role in global warming.
[DatePublished] => 2007-08-11 13:54:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 11237 [Title] => Asia faces huge environmental costs due to lack of investment in sanitation, ADB says [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-07 13:42:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271864 [Title] => World Water Week coincided with Holy Week [Summary] => Holy Week as we all recently experienced placed everything on hold. There were no newspapers and even the major television news stations closed on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. By sheer coincidence, the UN International Decade for Action celebrated World Water Week on March 22 to 29 and so they could not project their Water for Life theme in the midst of a Holy Week news blackout.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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