Articles About GLOBAL POVERY AND THE WATER CRISIS
Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
Release Date: 2006
By: Kevin Watkins, lead author of the United Nations Development Program
"This years Human Development Report looks at an issue that profoundly influences human potential and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Throughout history human progress has depended on access to clean water and on the ability of societies to harness the potential of water as a productive resource."
Human Development Report 2006 – Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target. The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade
Release Date: 2008
By: World Health Organization and UNICEF 2006
"The world is still on track for reaching the MDG drinking water target, but the trend appears to be deteriorating. On current trends, the world will miss the sanitation target by more than half a billion people."
Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target. The Urban and Rural Challenge of the Decade
The Millennium Development Goals Report - 2008
Release Date: 2008
By: United Nations
"The eight Millennium Development Goals have been adopted by the international community as a framework for the development activities of over 190 countries in ten regions; they have been articulated into over 20
targets and over 60 indicators. This Report summarizes progress towards the goals in each of the regions."
The Millennium Development Goals Report – 2008
Millennium Development Goals: 2008 Progress Chart
Release Date: 2008
By: United Nations
"In 2000, all 189 Member States of the United Nations adopted the Millennium Declaration. The Declaration established 2015 as the target date for achievement of most of its quantifiable commitments. Half the period to this target date has now passed. This chart provides an assessment of progress towards a number of the key targets relating to each Goal. Trends are assessed on the basis of data between 1990 and the most recent year for which information was available as of June 2008, when this chart was prepared."
Millennium Development Goals: 2008 Progress Chart
The Global Water Crisis Fact Sheet
Release Date: Undetermined
By: Water Partners
Water Partners provides a concise overview of key water crisis facts related to (1) drinking water; (2) sanitation; (3) kids, women, health and productivity.
The Global Water Crisis Fact Sheet
Global Water Outlook To 2025 - Averting an Impending Crisis
Release Date: September, 2002
By: Mark Rosegrant, Ximing Cai, and Sarah Cline
"For some time, experts have argued about the Earth's capacity to support ever larger human populations.
Can the Earth produce enough food to feed 8 billion people? 10 billion? It now appears that one of the main factors limiting future food production will be water. Based on a global model of supply and demand for food and water, this report shows that if current water policies continue, farmers will indeed find it difficult to meet the world's food needs. This report examines these policies spells out the future results of our current choices."
Global Water Outlook To 2025 – Averting an Impending Crisis
Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020
By: Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute Research Report
Release Date: August 15, 2002
The failure to provide safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services to all people is perhaps the greatest development failure of the 20th century. The most egregious consequence of this failure is the high rate of mortality among young children from preventable water-related diseases. This paper examines different scenarios of activities in the international water arena and provides three estimates of the overall water-related mortality likely to occur over the next two decades.
Dirty Water: Estimated Deaths from Water-Related Diseases 2000-2020
