WWF at the World Water Forum news
22 Mar 2006
Protecting Australia's natural freshwater assets would save billions of dollars
Australia’s remaining healthy rivers, creeks, wetlands, floodplains and estuaries would be protected and billions of dollars in repair bills saved under a proposal by WWF-Australia to consolidate the country's existing water management programmes. » Read more
22 Mar 2006
International water forum fails to tackle world water crisis
With around five million people a year dying from water-related diseases, governments attending the World Water Forum have failed to grab the opportunity to make tangible progress on the world's water crisis. » Read more
21 Mar 2006
Forum takes its seat in the “last chance café”
It’s the last chance for the world’s governments to pull the Forum’s action plan into shape if they want to create a framework for dealing effectively with the world’s water crisis. Disastrous management of the world’s rivers has meant that storms and hurricanes are causing more damage to people and nature than ever before. » Read more
20 Mar 2006
Strong on words weak on action - Forum failing to tackle water crisis, warns WWF
Governments may be talking about how to tackle the world water crisis, but most are failing to include water in their poverty reduction plans. A WWF assessment shows that only 17 per cent of water-poor countries have prioritized better water management in their national poverty reduction plans. » Read more
19 Mar 2006
Strong action needed from Forum, warns WWF
The World Water Forum will only make a difference to the world’s water crisis if governments in Mexico City are ready to step-up to the mark. » Read more
18 Mar 2006
Toothless Forum fails to fight world water crisis
WWF urges governments to ratify the 1997 Watercourses Convention, which we need in place urgently to give the Forum’s words real meaning. » Read more
17 Mar 2006
Another Forum, still no way out of Water Crisis
Despite mounting evidence that the world’s rivers are drying up due to mismanagement, governments continue to ignore the basic truth that with less water in the rivers most grandiose infrastructure developments are a waste of time, space and money. » Read more
16 Mar 2006
WWF researchers create detailed map of the world's rivers
WWF scientists have developed data and maps of the world's rivers that provide valuable information about where streams and watersheds occur and how water drains the land surface.
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16 Mar 2006
Forum’s Promises Evaporating in Mexico City
The Forum’s draft declaration is saying nothing new. WWF is worried that only one week after the UN warned of major rivers drying up and threats to water security the Forum is failing to place these issues centrally on the agenda. » Read more
14 Mar 2006
The myths and facts of freshwater
WWF Global Freshwater Programme Director Jamie Pittock writes on current freshwater issues in the lead-up to the World Water Forum. » Read more
