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<title>Asia Pacific Water Forum-Beppu,Japan, DEC 2-4, 2007</title>
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<title><![CDATA[:THAILAND: ‘The River Has Changed’]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=972</link>
<author><![CDATA[Prangtip Daorueng]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[<b>CHACHOENGSAO, Thailand</b> - “The river has changed. It has become narrower and unusually dry in the dry season,” says fisherman Pohnpaisarn Wimonrat. “There is no longer enough fish for a small fisherman like me to catch.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:PHILIPPINES: Vendors Run Wastewater Treatment Plant]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=973</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kalinga Seneviratne]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[LILOAN, Philippines - This municipality of 80,000 people living in 14 ‘barangay’ or villages has a spectacular 5-kilometre beach that used to be very popular among beachgoers. During weekends, they come in droves from Cebu City, just a 30-minute drive away.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:SINGAPORE: Starting Them Young]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=974</link>
<author><![CDATA[Tharuka Prematillake]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE - “It’s exciting and makes Singapore clean,” S Vishna, a primary school student, says of his efforts, along with friends, of cleaning the Singapore river base here one weekend.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:FIJI: Waste Threat Pushes Fiji Villagers into Action]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=977</link>
<author><![CDATA[Shailendra Singh]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[VUNISINU, Fiji - If villagers so used to eating fish caught fresh from the sea begin resorting to tinned fish to supplement their diets, there must be something really wrong somewhere.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:CHINA: The River of Troubles]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=978</link>
<author><![CDATA[Jie Cao]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[TIELING, China, Dec 3  - “When I was young, if we had visitors, we’d go to the river to catch fish with a net. We could catch many big fish of different kinds,” recalled septuagenarian Xie, who lives in this village in the north-eastern Chinese province of Liaoning. “At that time, there were big willows on the riverbank, so the villagers could relax under the trees in summer.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:INDIA: Lack of Water, Lack of Education]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=979</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kalinga Seneviratne]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BANGALORE, India – It’s often said that social taboos hinder the education of girls in India’s poor communities, but lack of access to water also deprives them of an education.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:THAILAND: After Apologies, Back to Polluting Canals]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=981</link>
<author><![CDATA[Jaime Lim]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 3 - On Nov. 24, the Chao Phraya river once again was illuminated not only by the full moon, but by the lights from many floating ‘krathong’ — banana leaf cups adorned with flowers and candles — as they bobbed up and down on the water.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:INDONESIA: In Jakarta, Water by Any Means]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=982</link>
<author><![CDATA[Richel Langit-Dursin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec 3 – Every night, 42-year-old Rachmat is awakened by the knocks on the door of his tiny room. 
“The people always wake me up if they want to use the toilet,” said Rachmat, a caretaker in one of the public toilets in a slum community on Pandan Street in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Wanted: Water Leaders]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=983</link>
<author><![CDATA[Lynette Lee Corporal]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE, Dec 3 - If policymakers in the Asia-Pacific would just get their act together, potable tap water for all could just become a reality.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:‘Water Cure’ Sought at Beppu Summit]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=984</link>
<author><![CDATA[Lynette Lee Corporal]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Dec 3 - The highest political commitments to addressing the water woes of the Asia-Pacific region – a different kind of ‘water cure’ -- will be sought at the First Asia-Pacific Water Summit, which runs from Dec. 3-4 in the southern Japanese city of Beppu.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:CAMBODIA: Water to the Poor, and Making Profits Too]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=985</link>
<author><![CDATA[Puy Kea]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH - Ek Sonn Chan has weathered assassination threats and a slow-moving bureaucracy in this post-conflict country to create one of the most trusted water supply systems in Asia.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Latin America Wants Rich Nations to Foot the Bill]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=987</link>
<author><![CDATA[Mario Osava]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Tierramérica), Dec 4 - Latin American governments will call for greater commitments from industrialised countries to curb climate change and to provide financial support for developing countries to deal with its effects.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=988</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zofeen T. Ebrahim]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - To many people glofs may seem Greek, but to the Nepalese mountain people, it conjures up images of fear, death and certain annihilation. Glofs is no monster but short for glacial lakes outburst floods, an unprecedented water disaster that can cause entire communities and tribes to be vanquished. It is caused by melting of glaciers due to global warming.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Commitments Given, But Funds Needed]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=989</link>
<author><![CDATA[Richel Langit-Dursin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU, Dec 4 - Leaders of developing states in the Pacific found common ground at the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit. The heads of Palau, Nauru, Bhutan, Kiribati, Kyrgyz, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Niue, Tajikistan and Tuvalu pledged their political commitments, but also stressed their need for financial and technical support from donor and development agencies to address water problems in their countries.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:CEOs: Good actions means good business]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=990</link>
<author><![CDATA[Alejandro Kirk]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU, Dec 4 - The prevailing thinking among business, academic and public sector representatives meeting here is that without the private sector actively involved in providing management and technology, there is no solution to the shortage of drinking water and sanitation in the Asia-Pacific region.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Improved monitoring of investments and results]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=991</link>
<author><![CDATA[Sahana Singh]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU, Dec 4 - Various experiences in the region have indicated that there is an urgent need to improve policies for monitoring investments and results in the water and sanitation sector. It was found in a series of studies conducted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) as well as a Regional Workshop on Monitoring of Investment and Results of Water Resources Management, held in Kuala Lumpur in October 2007, that there is no proper system in place for the same.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Solid Solutions to Liquid Problems]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=992</link>
<author><![CDATA[Alejandro Kirk]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU, Dec 4 - The Asia-Pacific Water Summit kicked off Monday with both royal protocol and a sense of urgency: 700 hundred million people in the region do not have access to drinking water and two billion lack basic sanitation. Yet, most of those same people are in danger of losing their homes and lives due to heavy rains and floods.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Tommy Koh: Putting Issues on the Agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=993</link>
<author><![CDATA[Sahana Singh]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - Tommy Koh, chair of the Governing Council of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum, believes access to drinking water and sanitation are two of the most important human needs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:World Prepares To Talk ‘Dirty’]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=994</link>
<author><![CDATA[Sahana Singh]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - Although 2.6 billion people in the world – two-thirds of whom are in southern or eastern Asia – are living without access to basic sanitation, the issue has been a poor cousin to water in terms of visibility and financing. It has not received much attention from policymakers in the past. However, efforts are on to reverse this neglect.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Leaders Reaffirm MDG Commitment]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=995</link>
<author><![CDATA[Message from Beppu]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - At the end its two-day meeting, the 1st Asia-Pacific Water Summit formally confirmed yesterday the region’s commitment to achieve Target 10 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG): halve by 2015 the number of people who lack access to drinking water and basic sanitation, and to zero by 2025.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Lack of Gender Focus Frustrates Policymaker]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=996</link>
<author><![CDATA[Richel Langit-Dursin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - When floods and droughts strike, it is the women and children who suffer most. But when it comes to managing water-related disaster management, they are left out.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Small Islands Have No Time To Waste]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=997</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kalinga Seneviratne]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU - The South Pacific whose voice is usually muted in regional forums was quite audible at the water summit, perhaps by default. Although 49 countries were invited to send their heads of state, only 9 turned up and 7 of them were from the South Pacific island nations.  Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau and Tuvalu were represented at the highest level.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Pacific Leaders Get Attention By Default]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=998</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kalinga Seneviratne and Evelyn Agato ]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BEPPU -It was planned as a gathering of Asian Pacific leaders to make a joint commitment to solve the region’s pressing problems with respect to safe drinking water and sanitation. But, Hideaki Ode, the spokesperson for the first Asia Pacific Water Summit (APWS) told a media conference on Monday that 49 countries were invited and only 9 of them have sent their Heads of States, while 25 others are represented by senior ministers or public officials.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[:Academic Debate Vs Real Action]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/Beppu2007/currentNew.aspx?new=999</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zofeen T. Ebrahim]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Is access to water a social good, a fundamental right of the citizens or a service that they should be paying for, even if at a subsidised rate?]]></description>
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