As Willem Alexander, Prince of Orange (2002) stated, The water crisis that is affecting so many people is mainly a crisis of governance not of water scarcity.

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At its core, the global economic crisis is a growth crisis.

The global food crisis will not go away by itself.

It has been two decades since the last global debt crisis.

We have just passed through the worst financial crisis since World War II.

It also provides advice on water legislation and regulation of water utilities and cooperates with a number of global and regional projects, such as the Global Water Partnership and Visión Andina, assessing the impact of trade and investment agreements on water and water utilities.

Rapidly intensifying water scarcity reflects bulging populations, depletion of groundwater, waste and pollution, and the enormous and increasingly dire effects of manmade climate change.

And the global food and financial crises threaten to stymie recent progress.

The United Nations system wide World Water Development Report highlighted the continued deterioration in freshwater resources, as well as the links between water and achievement of the internationally agreed goals of the Millennium Declaration.

The department has now four departments Water Resources Engineering , Water and Waste water Engineering , Structural and Geo technical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering .

Experts throughout the country fear that decades of war, pollution, uncharted development and damming mean a water crisis in Iraq is imminent.

Following the 1997 crisis, there was a consensus that fundamental reform of the global financial architecture were needed.

The Shōwa Financial Crisis occurred after the post World War I business boom in Japan.

Our global long term partnerships in water sanitation have resulted in 2.5 million beneficiaries.

The water crisis in Gaza is a cause of disease and suffering among Palestinians, and is a major source of underlying tensions between Palestine and Israel.

New efforts are under way to address water quality monitoring within the WHO UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP).

The fact that the current global crisis is a post modern one does not make it any less dangerous.

Expressing its concern at the severe shortage of drinkable water and the severe food crisis, as reflected in the report of the Secretary General,

Consider the oil crisis that began in November 1973, resulting in a world stock market crash and a sharp world recession.

At the same time, the ECB has gained considerable credibility from its handling of the global credit crisis.

For all these reasons, the global crisis will not be devastating in the same way as the Great Depression was.

The Mediterranean Sea constitutes 0.7 of the global water surface and yet receives seventeen percent of global marine oil pollution.

UNICEF will continue to work closely with WHO and other partners to ensure that national policies support effective water quality monitoring and where necessary, improvement programmes.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

The global financial crisis added to gold s allure, owing initially to fear of a second Great Depression.

In recent weeks, the global liquidity and credit crunch that started last August has become more severe.

That made the crisis more severe than any since World War II.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has called the 2008 financial crisis a sign that America s global leadership is coming to an end.

Nothing beats a dip in the cool waters of Rio de Janeiro's world famous beaches on a hot Sunday morning.

These developments suggest that global leaders are finally beginning to understand that, beyond the global economic crisis, the world is experiencing a social and employment crisis, as well as a climate and resource crisis.

By contrast, in the interwar years poisonous international politics combined with global economic imbalances to create the Great Depression and set the scene for World War II.

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Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, in 1980 the Israeli Knesset passed a law requiring the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes (except high towers with insufficient roof area).

NEW YORK Today s world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.

Moreover, money markets, especially in Europe, remain traumatized by the festering global credit crunch.

Yet again, billions of dollars are spent on bombing and destruction in the region, while virtually nothing is done about the growing water crisis.

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At the same meeting, the Commission approved the accreditation of the Global Water Partnership to participate as an observer in its thirteenth session.

In the same year that I visited this factory, I went to Pakistan, where people in 2008 were going hungry as a result of a squeeze on global food supplies.

But, partly because several African countries have escaped the hang over from the global credit crisis, more investors are focusing on business opportunities there.

The international balance of payments remains in surplus, and there is still a net capital inflow despite the global credit crunch.

The First World War and the 1920 s shattered any naïve belief in pure free trade.

Singapore welcomes this opportunity to discuss the road safety crisis and supports the initiatives introduced at this and other global forums to tackle the crisis.