GWP in the News 2011

A collection of news items featuring the Global Water Partnership or GWP representatives.

January 2011

Uganda: Are wetlands becoming wastelands?

Uganda: The Effects of Wetland Destruction Will Be Too Costly

The effects of wetland destruction will be too costly

Drowning in mindless sand-mining

Uganda: Climate Change Affecting Nation's GDP

 
Interview with Dr Ania Grobicki “Water security is becoming a real issue”, Global Briefing

Innovation and the private sector, Global Briefing

Lagos Out With New Water Supply Policy

Nigeria: Lagos Plans Water, Sanitation Provision

February 2011

South Asia to be hardest hit by climate change (Daily Mirror)

Making every drop count for regional water security (Daily Mirror)

Water: A fast depreciating resource (Daily Mirror)

B850m grid study budget under fire, GWP Thailand gives expert advice

WATER: Optimism at World Water Day conference (Irin News)

March 2011

Albania, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro meet to jointly tackle cross-border water issues (Balkan News)

Leading the way in women and water (The Sunday Times)

Seguridad hídrica en Centroamérica (El Greentimes)

BCIE y GWP Centroamérica firman acuerdo sobre recursos hídricos

Issues of water supply discussed in Yerevan

Water: Optimism at World Water Day conference

Malaysia faces looming water crisis (Malaysia Star)

International Seminar on Integrated Flood and Drought Management (IFDM) & Workshop on IFDM Capacity Building for Pakistan

April 2011

Rising from the USSR Ashes IWRM: Across Central Asia, article in WaterWorld by GWP CACENA's regional coordinator

Uzbekistan has rich experience in rational and efficient use of water resources” (UzA correspondents)

Water management is need of the hour in India (Daily News & Analysis)

Regional integration can give substance to SA’s role, by GWP Technical Committee member Mike Muller

RBTT employees clean up Salybia (Trinidad & Tobago Newsday)

Egypt must change attitude over Nile water (Ethiopian Journal)

Interview with former Technical Committee Chair Roberto Lenton

May 2011

Stakeholders seek implementation of ECOWAS About GWP West Africa in Business Day
 
Rivals say no to nuclear GWP Thailand in Bangkok Post
 
Saving the Fouta Djallon Highlands GWP Nigeria in Daily Independent
 
West African journalists attend workshop on forest conservation GWP West Africa in Ghana Business News

June 2011

Stakeholders seek implementation of ECOWAS (About GWP West Africa in Business Day)

Rivals say no to nuclear (Thai Water Partnership in Bangkok Post)

Saving the Fouta Djallon Highlands (Nigeria Water Partnership in Daily Independent)

West African journalists attend workshop on forest conservation (GWP West Africa in Ghana Business News)

July-August 2011

GWP Mediterranean manages Coca-Cola project

Eco-Gozo set to receive grant (Malta Independent Online)

$800000 grant for eco-Gozo water conservation project (Gozo News)

$800000 grant for Eco Gozo's water stewardship programme (Times of Malta)

$800000 grant by The Coca-Cola Foundation for Eco Gozo's Water ... (di-ve.com)

New Global Soil Partnership Complements GWP

Land rush and sustainable food security (The Hindu)

Global steps vital to preserve worldwide soil fertility and avoid (UN News Centre)

Global Soil Partnership for Food Security launched at FAO (StarAfrica)

HRH the Prince of Orange holds GWP Annual Lecture 2011

Prince of Orange calls for 21st century cascade water technology

Willem Alexander Gives Speech at Global Water Partnership ..

Southern Africa: Getting Water to the People

Trying to Access Funding for Climate Change (InterPress)

Integrating water with climate change adaptation plans (Environmental Expert)

September 2011

Rural Women attended workshop on Water Management, GWP India (Udaipur Times)

GWP Thailand Chair about the floods in Thailand
Ayutthaya hospital patients airlifted (The Nation)

Caribbean Water Ministers to Discuss Water Financing in Guadeloupe

GWP Technical Committee Member Dr Uma Lele interviewed in The Hindu

GWP to establish Country Water Partnership in Sierra Leone (Awoko Business)

Towards a shared vision for the management of the Drin Basin: National Consultation Meeting in Montenegro

October 2011

Rural Women attended workshop on Water Management, GWP India (Udaipur Times)

GWP Thailand Chair about the floods in Thailand Ayutthaya hospital patients airlifted (The Nation)

Caribbean Water Ministers to Discuss Water Financing in Guadeloupe

GWP Technical Committee Member Dr Uma Lele interviewed in The Hindu

GWP to establish Country Water Partnership in Sierra Leone (Awoko Business)

Towards a shared vision for the management of the Drin Basin: National Consultation Meeting in Montenegro

November 2011

Rural Women attended workshop on Water Management, GWP India (Udaipur Times)

Guyana's coastal population faces threat of sea level rise (Reuters AlertNet)

El Salvador: Water Bill Stagnates in Congress (IPS)

Ghana: Let's Have Commercial Toilets At All Fuel Stations (AllAfrica.com)

High-tech solutions for the global water crisis (NEXT)

Dialogue to begin on West Africa groundwater resources (Ghana Business News)

December 2011

Growing Calls for Water to be Prioritised (IPS)

VOA: Climate Change Threatens Africa’s Biggest Water Sources 

Efforts to include water in climate talks gaining momentum (Wiser Earth)

The Water Community Takes the Lead in Climate Change Adaptation (PR Newswire)

Water Lessons: An African water management perspective on climate change - article by Mike Muller, GWP Technical Committee

Care for water ‘deserves priority’(Daily News)