Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation

The village's drinking water came from a local well.

A board of education, school committee or school board is the board of directors or board of trustees of a school, local school district or higher administrative level.

The Water Governance Programme focuses on addressing local capacity constraints in order to improve access to water and sanitation and operates at the local and national levels.

The full cost of supplying water in urban areas in developed countries is about US 1 2 per cubic meter depending on local costs and local water consumption levels.

The local influentials tend to be in positions that they got through their local popularity street commissioner, mayor, or township board member.

There was a central Child Welfare Board and local welfare boards in 75 districts.

Decentralization of water management and devolution of decision making power to local authorities and community based institutions such as water committees, supported by capacity building programmes, has proven successful in many countries in addressing local problems and reducing the costs of water services.

The Water for African Cities Programme has had considerable success in focusing on youth in its value based water education initiatives, linking local water authorities with schools and water and sanitation clubs.

The cosmopolitan influentials tended to take positions in local government that reflected their broad expertise board of health, housing committee, or board of education.

Local governments are best in the position to monitor, protect and manage water resources.

It would be important to develop water legislation and regulations to manage competing water demands at the river basin, catchment, aquifer and local levels.

Host regulators are increasingly nervous about banks that operate in their jurisdictions through branches of their corporate parent, without local capital or a local board of directors.

How might we improve access to safe drinking water for the world's poorest people, and at the same time stimulate innovation amongst local water providers?

The huge quantities of local water that LWRs consume for their operations become hot water outflows, which are pumped back into rivers, lakes, and oceans.

WHO, on behalf of UN Water, prepared an advocacy sourcebook for the Water for Life Decade, to be used as a guide for local groups on how to raise awareness on water issues.

In Republika Srpska, 51.4 per cent of households are linked to city water supply, 27.7 per cent to local water supply, while wells are the drinking water source for 13.45 per cent of households.

Those cities are not attended by Sabesp, but rather have their water supplied by small, local companies.

To stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources by developing water management strategies at the regional, national and local levels, which promote both equitable access and adequate supplies.

Local communities play a central role in the adoption and success of effective land and water management policies.

The Board is expected to provide important inputs to the Fourth World Water Forum, in Mexico City in March 2006.

Serving as member of the Local Committee on Contracts, Local Survey Board, Ad hoc Disciplinary Committee, Chairman of the Classification Appeals Committee and other ad hoc bodies set up by the Administration.

Incorporating water risk into McDonald s Environmental Scorecard is an important step in engaging suppliers not only on water efficiency, but also in overall stewardship, including cooperation with local watershed stakeholders.

UNICEF will continue to liaise and support the United Nations Advisory Board for Water that reports directly to the Secretary General.

Training at the local level in leadership, organization, hygiene and other issues regarding preserving the safety of water supplies should be a priority when bringing water delivery systems to the people.

Stabilizing those situations to prevent outflows and permit voluntary repatriation, rather than local integration across the board, was the best durable solution.

The local water supply is fed by Bootawa Dam, which is an offsite dam, however, water is pumped from the river to the dam whenever river turbidity and flow levels can allow.

Rainwater collected from the roofs of houses and local institutions can make an important contribution to the availability of drinking water.

Through its Water Futures Partnership, the company has identified which of its facilities are located in areas facing water security risks and has created partnerships in the local watersheds to address these risks.

Women and girl children must be included at every level, local, national, and corporate, as equal participants in all water management training and policy making so that water policies and programs are gender sensitive.

According to the G 8 declaration, land transactions should be transparent and respect local communities rights, which include water and food security.

Practice shows that local levels of government provide the most efficient water management, even if regulations must necessarily be national in scope.

In many countries, inadequate local water availability is increasingly constraining decisions about where to set up new manufacturing facilities and energy plants.

(b) Develop water management plans in transboundary, national and or local contexts, preferably on the basis of catchment areas or groundwater aquifers.

During the next couple of days local Somalis brought on board a gun, which was mounted on the upper deck of the Alpha Serengeti.

In paragraph 88, the Board recommended that UNICEF set and monitor targets for local private sector fund raising in potential high growth country offices.

The currency was in theory governed by a rules based Currency Board, which the British invented for their smaller colonies. It tied the local currency to the British Pound, giving local authorities no discretion in monetary policy.

In Morocco, for example, the PAGER project, which brings water to the rural population, would not be feasible were it not for the devolution of the operation and maintenance of water facilities to local communities.

Taking note with appreciation of the contribution made by the Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and its work on the Hashimoto Action Plan, a compendium of water related actions which relevant actors should consider, as appropriate,

In paragraph 113, the Board recommended that UNICEF monitor more closely the target arrival date of emergency local orders and the date of their issuance.

He asked if I wanted fresh coconut water I said yes, and he pulled out his cellphone and dialed the local toddy tapper.

Where it is absolutely necessary to involve the private sector in water delivery, agreements must be strictly limited, controlled, monitored, and evaluated by government, with local input and with full insurance that water remains publicly owned.

Each national cleaner production centre is directed by an experienced country national, in nearly all cases hosted within a local organization, and receives guidance from a national advisory board or a combination of an executive board and an advisory committee.

In rural areas, where the majority of the poor live, technical and financial support from government and local authorities for digging and maintaining wells or other water sources can help to expand access to safe drinking water.

Local water authorities and management bodies could be empowered by giving them decision making powers and financial autonomy, strengthening their capacities to improve water pricing structures, and developing and using alternative financial instruments to generate investment resources.