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Desarrollo vs. sostenibilidad: la polémica Ley del Agua en El Salvador
Abstract: The discussion about the contrast between development and sustainability seems dense and abstract. In El Salvador, however, there is a clear example of the need to seek a balance between both: the controversy over the attempt to pass a Water Act. The project entered the Legislative Assembly on March […]
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In the Face of a Receding Lake, Water Conflict at the Ethiopia-Kenya Border
The Kenyan government has decided to send 200 additional reserve troops to the Kenya-Ethiopia border in response to Ethiopian militia attacks in the Turkana. At present, tensions are high following the killing of a Kenyan police reservist at the hands of Ethiopian militiamen. This occurs less than a year after […]
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El imperio de la sed en la potencia mundial del agua
Foto de la autora Abstract: Holder of 13% of the total global water, Brazil is currently considered the greatest water potency in the planet. However, paradoxically, it is estimated that about 45 million Brazilians, number corresponding to 25% of the total population, lack access to water. The vulnerability of […]
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India – A Future Without Fresh Water
Economies of nations like India cannot grow without her people but with depleting natural resources like water, there will not be any future for the people, the economy, and the country!
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Pakistan’s Kyoto Clean Development Mechanisms and Earth Day
Tagline: Market based mechanisms at work in Pakistan despite its subscribing to the Kyoto Protocol I see the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the same market-based mechanism which is being followed in Pakistan. Non-control of industries and their functions leads to environmental hazards like the disaster in the […]