In some countries, new water infrastructure may mean canals, pumping stations, and levees.

The use of zais and demi lunes as water catchments has been successful in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger.

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

We need roads to join those cities, dams to store up the waters of the Picketwire, and we need statehood to protect the rights of every man and woman, however humble.

Many of those land mines were laid around key infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, dams, power lines and water stations, to protect them from sabotage.

Whole villages are mined, road systems, power plants, bridges, dams and the areas around United Nations safe havens.

The Commission has not excluded from its inspections prisons, sports grounds, universities, bread ovens, abattoirs, civilian shelters, sewers, irrigation dams, hospitals and government office buildings.

Roads, power lines, electric plants, irrigation systems, water plants, dams and industrial plants are often mined during civil conflicts.

Many Parties reported on options to increase domestic water supply these included prospecting for, and extraction of, deep groundwater, increasing storage capacity by building reservoirs and dams, and improving watershed management.

These arrangements have indeed made it possible for China to build entire cities in a matter of years, as well as high speed railways, opera houses, stadiums, industrial parks, massive dams, and whatnot.

It says that in the last 30 years, 20 percent of the Amazon has been deforested and another 20 percent degraded all fueled by clearing land for agriculture and large scale industrial projects such as oil and gas pipelines, dams and roads.

Restrictions on the freedom of movement of persons and goods, including humanitarian assistance, medical and agricultural equipment, through a system of checkpoints and roadblocks, coupled with closures and prolonged curfews, had caused a steep decline in production and increased unemployment, which could result in human catastrophe.