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    OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030: a summary

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges.
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    Infrastructure influences whether poor women in Lesotho have time to earn money

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Women in sub-Saharan Africa often have significant time burdens as a result of both formal work and domestic duties. This lack of time affects poverty reduction efforts. Improving infrastructure, such as access to water and transportation, would give women more time and potentially contribute to reducing poverty.
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    Progress on drinking water and sanitation: special focus on sanitation

    World Health Organization, 2008
    This report details global progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for drinking water and sanitation, and what these trends suggest for the remainder of the Water for Life Decade 2005-2015.
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    Water, livelihoods and growth: concept paper

    Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region, 2007
    With a focus on RIPPLE (Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region), this paper looks at research-inspired policy and practice learning in Ethiopia and the Nile.
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    Depopulating the Tibetan grasslands: national policies and perspectives for the future of Tibetan herders in Qinghai Province, China

    Plateau Perspectives, 2008
    Tibetan grasslands constitute one of the most important grazing ecosystems in the world and encompass the source areas of many major Asian rivers.
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    The north-western Sahara aquifer system: concerted management of a transboundary water basin

    Sahara and Sahel Observatory, 2008
    The North-western Sahara aquifer system (NWSAS) shared by Algeria, Libya and Tunisia contains considerable water reserves; however, it is largely unrenewable and not fully exploitable.
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    Innovation for sustainable development: local case studies from Africa

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2008
    This report aims to shed light on the way innovative solutions have arisen to address local sustainable development challenges, examining the determinants of success and the scope for replication. The report focuses on the African experience, and contributes to the documentation for the 16th and 17th sessions of the Commission on Sustainable Development.
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    Water democracy: reclaiming public water in Asia

    Focus on the Global South, 2007
    Water crisis is largely a problem of governance. While there is an obvious bias towards privatisation as a solution to the water sector problems, the last few years have also seen many social mobilisations, consolidation of forces, and hard-won battles for peoples and communities’ water struggles, particularly in defending water as a human right.
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    Solar water disinfection: a guide for the application of SODIS

    The SODIS Reference Center, 2002
    Access to safe drinking water is a major issue faced by a large number of the world’s population. In an attempt to address this issue, multiple water processing methods have been developed. One such method is the Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) method: a simple, environmentally sustainable, low-cost solution for drinking water treatment at household level.
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    Difficult choices for widows in Namibia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Given the importance of the institution of marriage, the death of a husband can dramatically affect the lives of women across sub-Saharan Africa. Despite legislation promoting their inheritance rights, many widows in Namibia struggle to cope. Their situation could improve if they marry again but often, remarriage is not desirable or possible for women.

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