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03-Dec-2008
Water management is a challenge for both OECD and developing countries. Though the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) call for the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation to be halved by 2015, many countries are not on track to meet these goals. Amid fears that the financial crisis would result in an aid crisis, OECD donors recently made an Aid Pledge, promising to honour their aid commitments, including the water-related MDGs.
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12-Sep-2008
Many governments in OECD countries have taken it for granted that there will always be sufficient water. According to M. Gurría, this is no longer true and the need to ensure access to water will test our ability to work together (available in Spanish).
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03-Aug-2006
On 11 July 2006 the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría and UNSGAB's Acting Chair Uschi Eid, signed a Joint Statement which outlines the roles of the two bodies in their joint effort to encourage increased financing for the water sector and to assist national, regional and local efforts to build their capacity to manage water resources.
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04-Oct-2005
This book explores the interface between environmental and social elements of water pricing policies in OECD countries.
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18-Mar-2003
Water management experts will meet at the 3rd WWF to develop actions to address water challenges worldwide. OECD will participate, drawing on lessons learned through experience with water management, water pricing systems, financing water services infrastructure, and aid to support water objectives.
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Improving Water Management: Recent OECD Experience
12-Mar-2003
This publication brings together the recent work of the OECD on water management issues. It identifies the main policy challenges addressed by that work for sustainable water management.
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04-Mar-2003
This book in part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country. It examines the progress made in water management in OECD countries.
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