June, 2007

In the last few weeks, we have seen a torrent of articles and news reports on the subject. US News & World Report, for example, ran a cover story under the title “Why You Should Worry About Water: How this diminishing resource will determine the future of where and how we live.” These and the many other recent writings all serve to emphasize how many of us take for granted a diminishing — and strategic — resource. In the heat of summer, when many Americans spend their days in or around swimming pools sipping various cold drinks, it is easy to ignore that a big chunk of the rest of the world doesn’t have access to clean drinking water. Over a billion people. Beyond that, some 2.6 billion people do not have what we would consider to be adequate sanitation. Think about it this way: Each time you flush a toilet, you are watching a full day’s worth of water per person in the developing world go down the drain.

According to a new country-by-country report released today by the World Health Organization, reducing environmental risks such as pollution, unsafe water, and ultraviolet radiation, 13 million lives

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Today, the State Department released

Check out Amnesty International's 2007 rep

According to a not yet released national health survey funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the number of people infected with HIV/AIDs in India is much lower than the previously estimated

We found an interesting post by Daniel Altman on the International Herald Tribune's Managing Globalization blog discussing the histo

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The Organization of American States released a new declaration for energy development:

This past spring I’ve had the chance to visit four of Asia’s most vibrant cities. I’ve heard from leaders of government, opinion leaders in media, heads of multinational corporations, and people struggling to survive with small pushcart businesses.

There is a common thread in the attitudes of all of these people, in four different Asian countries: China is rising, and anyone who isn't ready for it is in for an unpleasant surprise. This is the easy news. Most newspapers or newsmagazines will clue us in to this. The big news is the attention the Chinese leadership is paying to the environment.

On a three-day visit to India, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and key officials here set a ta

Today, the UN-supported Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Best Practices Forum for West and Central Africa kicked off in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

NPR sets out to debunk global migration myths:

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The Lula Calls for Ethanol Investment

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been invited to attend the G8 meeting in Germany this week.

According to the World Bank's 2007 Global Development Finance Report

The Blue Planet Run will cover 15

Check out this interesting video from the New York Times about Nicholas D.