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30.07.2004
Conference Preview
Thursday 16 � Sunday 19 September 2004
758th WILTON PARK CONFERENCE
Environment, Development And Sustainable Peace: Finding Paths To
Environmental Peacemaking
Wilton Park,
Adelphi Research, Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington
http://www.wiltonpark.org.uk/web/conferences/wrapper.asp?ConfRef=WP758
----INDUS--------------------------------------------------------------------------
July
30, 2004 �ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Indian officials Thursday began two days
of talks to resolve a water sharing row triggered by New Delhi's decision to
construct a dam in disputed Kashmir, officials said �
http://www.geo.tv/main_files/pakistan.aspx?id=33012
A lake dies...India, Pak
debate its water
July
27, 2004 BANDIPORA: When India and Pakistan sit down this week to negotiate the
issue of Wular Barrage, they will have less to wrangle over. The dam site,
Wular Lake, Asia�s largest fresh water lake, has shrunk to a six-sq-km stinking
pool filled with carcasses, plastic bags and silt. The barrage project is stuck
as Pakistan says it violates the Indus Water Treaty�
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=51862
Buy water from India: Pak MPs
July
29, 2004 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's ruling coalition�s MPs
from Punjab province have asked the government to buy water from India to tide
over the acute crisis in their region and wanted the 1960 Indus Water Treaty to
be renegotiated with New Delhi to get water from the Sutlej�
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=51970
24.7.2004
Die Knappheit von Wasser hat sich in Indien zur Krise verdichtet: Felder
bleiben unbestellt, der Grundwasserspiegel sinkt. Wenn dann noch der Monsun
ausbleibt, greift manche Regionalregierung zum letzten Mittel: Sie kappt den
Nachbarn den Zufluss�
http://www.taz.de/pt/2004/07/24/a0139.nf/text.ges,1
Badal meets PM over water issue
JULY 22, 2004 NEW DELHI: Former Punjab
Chief Minister and Akali Dal Chief Parkash Singh Badal on Thursday met Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and sought his intervention in the water row so that
the issue could be decided afresh by the Supreme Court or a tribunal�
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/787170.cms
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HINTERGRUND
http://wrmin.nic.in/international/default10.htm
http://wrmin.nic.in/riverbasin/indus.htm
http://www.waterinfo.net.pk/fsib.htm
http://www.waterinfo.net.pk/pdf/iwt.pdf
http://www.pakwapda.com/index.html
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weitere Links
Transboundary
Freshwater Dispute Database - Oregon State University
http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/atlas/atlas_html/treaties/asia/indus.html
Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.
http://www.stimson.org/?SN=SA20020116301
http://www.stimson.org/?SN=SA20020116300
International Centre for Integrated Mountain
Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
http://www.icimod.org/publications/newsletter/New38/indus.htm
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?PID=1062&EID=549
http://www.waterandnature.org/flow/cases/Indus.pdf
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SCV Has Water in the Bank �
and Gets to Keep It
7/22/2004�� Whenever water is the battlefield in the
never-ending war between environmentalists and developers, there tend to be
rights and wrongs on both sides�
http://www.the-signal.com/News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=5066
July
22, 2004� NATIONAL Water and Sewerage
Corporation (NWSC) has received an international award for excellent
management, top officials have said. President Yoweri Museveni presented the
Golden Star for Management Merit from Worldwide Marketing Organisation (WMO) to
NWSC last week at Katabi�
http://allafrica.com/stories/200407220146.html
Minister calls for
views on water industry
21 Jul 2004�� ENVIRONMENT Minister Ross Finnie has urged the public to have
their say on the future of the water industry amid growing anger over large
increases in domestic and business water bills�
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=832562004
CSE press
release
CSE
film on harvesting rain wins �Green-Oscars� nomination
July 20, 2004� New Delhi: Rainwater Harvesting, a
90-second public services advertisement produced by Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE), New Delhi has been nominated by the Wildscreen 2004 Panda
Awards for its Campaign Award category. The United Kingdom�s Wildscreen Awards,
dubbed the �Green Oscars�, is among the most prestigious in wildlife and
environmental filmmaking�
http://www.cseindia.org/aboutus/press_releases/press_20040720.htm
Hintergrund:
http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/jalswaraj2.htm
...und dann war da noch:
US
army food... just add urine
The
US military has devised a way to ensure its troops in battle need never go
hungry - with dried food that can by rehydrated using dirty water or urine. The
meal comes in a pouch that filters out 99.9% of bacteria and most toxic
chemicals, says New Scientist magazine�
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3915659.stm
Sommerliche Gr��e von der Elbe
J�rg Barandat
http://de.geocities.com/joergbarandat/wassernetz.html