KYOTO, Japan (AP) -- The world's biggest international water conference began Sunday with international financiers and small-scale project leaders at odds over how to finance water projects for the poor.  Some 10,000 ministers, scientists and international financiers from 165 nations are debating how to halve the number of people without access to water by 2015.  The United Nations has said that the world's water crises can be solved if rich, developed nations devote about $100 billion more than the $80 billion a year currently spent on developing countries.  But in a panel discussion at the forum, Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute said an extra $10 billion a year -- spread out among a multitude of small projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia -- would suffice.   Read more....

 

Agenda    

http://www.world.water-forum3.com/2003/eng/agenda/agenda.html

 

Theme List    

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Registered Session List   

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Forum Home page                  

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Associated Press news article, 3/17/03, Global Water Conference Opens in Japan