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Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event - GWP

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Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event The Young Water Leaders Berlin Event connects current leaders with future leaders to ensure a ...

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Tiny Membrane Makes Sydney Harbour "Drinkable"

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Tiny Membrane Makes Sydney Harbour "Drinkable"

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Sydney’s iconic harbour has played a starring role in the development of new CSIRO technology that could save lives around the world. ***Chris Still ...

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Fixing Cities' Water Crises Could Send our Climate Targets down the Gurgler

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Fixing Cities' Water Crises Could Send our Climate Targets down the Gurgler

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Two cities on opposing continents, Santiago and Cape Town, have been brought to their knees by events at opposing ends of the climate spectrum: flood and ...

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Cutting the Urbanization-Water Link

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Cutting the Urbanization-Water Link

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Rapid urbanization is not only a phenomenon experienced by mega-cities but smaller cities too, with the fastest growing urban agglomerations being cities with ...

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Water Efficiency Policy: A Technological High-Water Mark?

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Water Efficiency Policy: A Technological High-Water Mark?

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From biomimicry to data analytics, Singapore is developing new technology to produce clean water without sinking the environment, Tommy Kevin Lee and Cecilia ...

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Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event: Nov 7, 2018

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Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event: Nov 7, 2018

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Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event: November 7, 2018 InterContinental Hotel Berlin Our Future Water: Young Water Leaders Berlin Event ...

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The Green Building Blocks of Cities

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The Green Building Blocks of Cities

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Many cities around the world are turning to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to enhance their resilience to climate change while creating livable spaces for their ...

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Nationalising Water Industry Could Cost Taxpayers £90bn

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Nationalising Water Industry Could Cost Taxpayers £90bn

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Nationalising the water industry could cost taxpayers up to £90 billion, a cross-party think tank has said. By Press Association Estimating the figure at the ...

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Singapore Earmarks $22.6M for Water Treatment Tech

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Singapore Earmarks $22.6M for Water Treatment Tech

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Singapore has called on the tech industry to pitch for S$30 million (US$22.68 million) worth of grants aimed at enhancing the country's water treatment ...

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Waste In, Resources Out

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Waste In, Resources Out

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The traditional economy — our take-make-dispose economy — is challenged by a variety of mega-trends including rapid population and economic growth, rising ...

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Water Management is Health Management

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Water Management is Health Management

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With climate change accelerating and its effects exacerbating other geopolitical and development crises, the role of environmental protection in preserving ...

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Share the Wealth: A Cap-And-Trade System of Water Conservation and Resiliency?

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Share the Wealth: A Cap-And-Trade System of Water Conservation and Resiliency?

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California has struggled with drought for most of the last decade. From 2011-2015, the state experienced the driest four-year stretch in recorded history, ...

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Building a Resilient Future: One Drop At a Time

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Building a Resilient Future: One Drop At a Time

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To prepare Singapore for future weather changes and the impacts of climate change on its water services, the Public Utilities Board (PUB) has initiated a ...

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Climate and Tech Pose the Biggest Risks to Our World in 2018

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Climate and Tech Pose the Biggest Risks to Our World in 2018

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We live in an era of unprecedented technological, scientific and financial resources. We frequently see incredible innovations - just look at gene editing ...

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A Water-Secure Future for Cities

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A Water-Secure Future for Cities

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By 2030, 5 billion people will be living in urban areas with hundreds of millions living in one of the world’s 41 mega-cities, up from 28 today. At the same ...

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