Fresh Policies To Guide Institution Into Next Century
The World Bank Group: Learning from the Past, Embracing the Future report says the Bank, working with its partners and borrowing countries, will strengthen its efforts to meet fundamental development objectives such as universal primary education, access to a minimum package of health care, and the elimination of malnutrition within the next generation.
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World’s Ability to Feed Itself Threatened by Water Shortage
The water equation is simple but deadly: some 20 percent more water is needed than is available to feed the additional 3 billion people who will be alive by 2025, warns the newly formed World Commission on Water for the 21st Century.
Partners: World Water Vision, World Bank
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Some 80 countries with 40 percent of the world’s population are experiencing water shortages that threaten their agriculture, industry and health, says the World Bank, the largest international funder of water projects.
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Poor people in the developing world pay on average 12 times more per liter of water bought than fellow citizens connected to municipal systems; these poverty-stricken people use less water, much of which is dirty and contaminated, according to information collected by the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century and confirmed by world-wide consultations.
Partners: World Water Vision, World Bank
Media Reach: global audience of 300 million