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IPS Inter Press Service - Troubled Waters
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Sustainable development has been defined as an approach to meet current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own. It requires the integration of economic, social and environmental goals to make global society not just better off, but better altogether. IPS is committed to helping readers make sense of the issues and challenges presented by sustainable development. This site brings together a selection of special reports and related features on sustainable development.
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DEVELOPMENT-SOUTHERN AFRICA: No Takers for Funds for Water Projects
WINDHOEK, Jan 6 (IPS) - Nearly nine million dollars of donor aid intended
to support transboundary water management projects in southern
Africa was diverted elsewhere after governments in the region
failed to submit proposals for funding.
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ENVIRONMENT-CAMBODIA: Opting For The Big Dam
PHNOM PENH, Jan 1 (IPS) - It has been a long held plan of Cambodia?s
government -- a hydropower dam on the mainstream of the Mekong
River in the central part of the country.
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Climate Change Threatens Livelihoods
LILONGWE, Dec 26 (IPS) - Climate change will affect the Zambezi River basin
more severely than any other river system in the world, according
to Kenneth Msibi, Water Policy and Strategy Expert for the
Southern African Development Community (SADC). Increased floods,
drought and increased levels of disease threaten lives and
livelihoods all along the river?s length.
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ENVIRONMENT-VIETNAM: River Pollution Scandal a Wake-up Call
HO CHI MINH CITY, Dec 13 (IPS) - The rising level of pollution in Vietnam?s
waterways has been common knowledge for years. But in October it
became a public scandal after Vedan, a Taiwanese maker of
monosodium glutamate (MSG), confessed to discharging toxic waste
through hidden pipes into a river for years.
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ENVIRONMENT-VIETNAM: Paying the Price of Rapid Development
HANOI, Dec 10 (IPS) - Vietnamʼs environmental issues have been
pushed to the forefront after it was reported in mid-September
that a Taiwanese MSG producer had been dumping untreated waste
water into the Thi Vai River.
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