WWF at World Water Week 2008
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World Water Week 2008 takes place from 17-25 August under a theme of Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World.
WWF is engaging in the full range of activities with a delegation headed by WWF International Director General James Leape.
WWF, along with its various seminars and side events, has also released a number of reports this past week:
- Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention
- UK Water Footprint: The impact of the UK's food and fibre consumption on global water resources, Vol. 1
- Adapting Water to a Changing Climate: An Overview
- Water for Life: lessons for climate change adaptation from better management of rivers.
WWF Agenda for 21 August
12.00 – Press Conference on climate adaptation and freshwater systems. Two challenging new reports on adaptation to climate change, illustrated with reference to case studies from WWF’s extensive field work on four continents will be released in conjunction. The release will be followed by World Water Week seminars on Climate Change adaptation in practice.All week
WWF will have a fully staffed booth at World Water Week
21 Aug 2008
Flow plan for less talk and more action as climate change hits rivers
Managers and stakeholders in freshwater systems need to stop talking about adaptation to climate change and start doing it, WWF told the World Water Week symposium in Stockholm today.
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20 Aug 2008
UK citizens using 58 baths of water a day
While each person in the UK drinks, hoses, flushes and washes their way through around 150 litres of mains water a day, they consume about 30 times as much in “virtual” water embedded in food, clothes and other items – the equivalent of about 58 bathtubs full of water every day. » Read more
19 Aug 2008
World needs global water agreement now
WWF Director-General James Leape today called on governments to support the entry into force of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention—an international agreement which could play a key role in water security for about 40% of the world's population.
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