Increasing the share of grants in official development assistance could help to ensure that investments in basic water and sanitation services are sustainable.

The programme was sponsored by UNICEF and the International Water and Sanitation Centre, with the support of Oxfam GB and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.

Water sanitation control is carried out for only about 55 per cent of the population, including microbiological, chemical and radiological controls at satisfactory levels.

Between 1994 and 2002, the proportion of homes with improved sanitation services, defined as a lavatory bowl connected to a drainage system, a lavatory connected to a septic tank, or a flush toilet.

In cooperation with the Fourth World Water Forum and the Japan Water Forum, UNICEF is planning to organize the second Children's World Water Forum as a parallel event.

With uneven zones of sanitary protection and the old way of water chlorine purification, the leading problem appears to be the lack of a single water supply facilities registry.

In addition, the Global Environmental Facility should be encouraged to use the opportunity of its pending replenishment to increase funding for water and sanitation, using its international water and land degradation windows.

The establishment by the Executive Director of the Water and Sanitation Trust Fund would make it considerably easier to achieve the goal of reducing the number of people without access to drinking water or sanitation.

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(d) existing uses of the waters

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The total area is 2.28 percent water.

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The commemoration in 2003 of the International Year of Fresh Water was a benchmark in the establishment of an international water agenda.

International financing institutions could increase overall resource commitments to water and sanitation, as well as reorient their portfolios, making use of dedicated financing initiatives for greater investment in rural and smaller settlements.

They had to dig wells for water.

(a) Environmental conditions of transboundary waters

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(i) Substantive servicing of meetings provision of institutional support to regional intergovernmental processes on water (e.g. African Ministers' Council on Water) (3)

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There is an anticlockwise water circulation in the sea.

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This pattern differs from that of salmon, which only return to freshwater to breed, and is described as amphidromous.

1. Proclaims the year 2003 as the International Year of Freshwater

2003 was designated the International Year of Freshwater.

National sustainable development strategies could provide the policy framework for integrated planning of water, sanitation and human settlements, but ultimately the approach would have to be adopted and implemented at the local level.

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Groundwater abstraction activities or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water to be abstracted or recharged amounts to 10 million cubic metres or more.

(c) UN Habitat has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Asian Development Bank to secure support for water and sanitation in Asian cities, and with the Inter American Development Bank to promote cooperation in support of joint projects and programmes in housing and urban development

The Northern Water Network was launched at the Third World Water Forum in an effort to build a network among the water community in industrialized countries to exchange experiences, technologies and know how.

56 192. Status of preparations for the International Year of Freshwater, 2003

The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use must be quantified.

Water consumption rose nine fold and energy use thirteen fold.

Never mind that this is hugely inefficient in terms of water and land usage.

There are no groundwater areas at the border between Finland and Sweden.

In the decade since the publication of the 1995 paper on UNICEF strategies in water and environmental sanitation (E ICEF 1995 17 and Corr.1), a growing body of evidence has demonstrated the critical importance of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for children.

Aquifer Natural water bearing geological formation found below the surface of the earth.

The health state of a woman is an important indicator of the health status of the population and the effectiveness of health care protection.

The river is the primary source of water for Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, which stands on the river.

An average annual surface water potential of 78.1 km³ has been assessed in this basin.

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c) prevent excessive abstraction, to the benefit of downstream communities and States.

Loss of use of water by the Jordanian population Jordan seeks compensation in the amount of USD 134,661,668 for the loss suffered by its population because it was deprived of the full use of water due to strict rationing of municipal water following Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

10.1 Sectoral policy on health and the health development plan

Noting that the Fourth World Water Forum will take place in Mexico in March 2006,