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Unlocking the water potential of Agriculture

On the occasion of the third World Water Forum (WWF-3), being held in Kyoto, Japan, from 16 to 23 March 2003, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)presented an overview of the priority issues facing the agricultural decision-makers of the world in the field of agricultural water development and their implications for the management of water resources in a wider context. FAO has placed its participation in the WWF-3 debates in Kyoto under the motto "unlocking the water potential of agriculture". Indeed, all the statistical evidence confirms agriculture as the key sector for water management both now and in the coming decades.

ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/aglw/docs/unlocking_e.pdf

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Indigenous Perspectives on Water and Development at the World Water Forum

Web-site for indigenous participants at the World Water Forum in Kyoto. Includes the indigenous declaration on water that presents an indigenous perspective on our relationship with water and implications for water development.

http://www.indigenouswater.org/default.asp

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Activists Steamed Over Privatized Water

OSAKA, Japan, March 18, 2003. (AP) Protesting corporate investment in public water utilities around the world, environmental groups said Tuesday they would oppose any statement from an international water conference that supports full or partial privatization of government-owned water services. "There's no way we're coming out with a joint statement unless it recognizes there's no joint position," said Maude Barlow, author of the book "Blue Gold" and head of the activist group Council of Canadians. The World Water Council, which is organizing the World Water Forum, has been strongly criticized by some policy makers and activists for promoting the idea of letting corporations operate municipal and regional water systems.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/18/world/main544449.shtml

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World Forum Views Water as a Life and Death Issue

By Alexandru R. Savulescu KYOTO, Japan, March 17, 2003 (ENS) - With the world poised for war in Iraq, thousands of participants gathered in Kyoto for the 3rd World Water Forum are expressing their concern over another potential source of conflict - water. "Our discussions will have far more effect on humankind for the 21st century than the current crisis in the Middle East, or any other political problem of the day," believes William Cosgrove, vice president of the World Water Council, a think tank on water founded in 1996. To date, no fewer than 300 potential water conflict zones have been identified by the United Nations.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2003/2003-03-17-01.asp

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3rd World Water Forum

March 16-23 2003, held in Shiga, Kyoto and Osaka, Japan. World Water Council and Secretariat of the Third World Water Forum. The World Water Forum series has been likened to a series of stepping stones towards the solution of the world's pressing water problems. Each step constitutes a new phase. The 3rd Forum takes up the World Water Vision created at the 2nd Forum in the Hague in 2000, and sets out to see that vision realized in concrete actions. The Forum will be held in the Yodo River Basin, at venues in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka from March 16 through 23 (8 days) in 2003. The Forum will encompass three major elements: the Forum itself, a ministerial conference and a water fair/festival consisted of a series of water-related events.

http://210.169.251.146/html/index.html

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2nd South Asia Water Forum

Global Water Partnership South Asia, at Islamabad, Pakistan, 17-19 December, 2002. Topics of the Forum> Groundwater in South Asia * resources assessment and planning * recharging aquifers * groundwater institutions * natural environment and demand management> Dams and development> Groundwater, poverty and IWRM> Gender participation in groundwater management

http://www.gwpforum.org

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