World Water Week, Day Two

Since 1991, World Water Week at the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) has been the leading global forum for discussion of water issues by scientists, government officials, business and civil society.

World Water Week 2008 takes place from 17-25 August under a theme of Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World.

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Behind world food crisis is a world water crisis

18 Aug 2008
WWF Director General James Leape will tell the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm that a world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies and rising food costs.

"Behind the world food crisis is a global freshwater crisis, expected to rapidly worsen as climate change impacts intensify," Mr Leape said. "Irrigation-fed agriculture provides 45 per cent of the world’s food supplies, and without it, we could not feed our planet's population of six billion people."...