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Water is one of the earth's most precious and threatened resources.
Health is one of each person's most precious resources.
We need to protect and enhance them both.
Water for Health

A practical guide for World Water Day 2001

• What is World Water Day
   
• Why organize a World Water Day
   
• Seminar on "Safe Water for Sound Health" at city's DPHE Bhaban
   
• Water Contamination - Search by Contaminant Name for definitions, Maximum Contaminant Levels, general sources and potential health effects. Protecting and Managing Source Water.
   

• Vision 21 Executive Summary_, Full Report
   

• A Vision of the World in the Year 2025 
   
• Agenda 21 - Chapter 18 - Protection of the quality and supply of freshwater resources: application of integrated approaches to the development, management and use of water resources
   
• The Fifth Five Year Plan 1997-2002
  Chapter XIII - Agriculture Water Resources and Rural Development
  Chapter XIX - Physical Planning Water Supply and Housing
   
• Treaties & Documents on Water Asia
   
• Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh
   
• Arsenic related articles & reports - SDI Issue

Publications & Articles

• Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change
  A Report of the National Water Assessment Group for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
   

• Report of the World Commission on Dams
   

• International Water & Sanitation Centre Publications
  

• The World Water 2000-2001
   

• Water-borne diseases and environmental health situation - The Daily Star
  Everyone knows that water sustains life. But not everyone knows that water can also endanger life. Ingestion of or exposure to contaminated water causes several diseases....
   
• Water and Health - The Daily Star
  The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro....
   
• Contamination of drinking-water by arsenic in Bangladesh: a public health emergency - The Daily Star
  IN Bangladesh, arsenic contamination of water in tubewells was confirmed in 1993 in the Nawabganj district....

Data & Treaty

• World Water Data
   

• Treaty Between the government of the Republic of India and the government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh on Sharing of the Ganga/Ganges Waters at Farakka.

Links

• Flood Forecasting and Warning Center
   
• International Water & Sanitation Center

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