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    • Home > Water Quality and Human Health - Updated: 09-09-2004 7:43 am
    In 1992, 20 per cent of the world's population did not have a safe supply of water, and about 50 per cent of the population lacked adequate sanitation. A recent UN report states that more than 5 million people die annually from diseases caused by unsafe drinking water, and lack of sanitation and water for hygiene. According to the World Health Organisation, billions of people are at risk due to water-borne diseases. Read more...    

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    Joint IHP/IAEA Integrated Science Initiative Workshop on Groundwater – Surface water Interaction, hyporheic zone processes and transformations and processes affecting nitrogen inputs into surface waters. (Oxford, UK; 12-09-2005 - 15-09-2005)
    This workshop will be the second of the Integrated Science initiative. More

    Joint IHP/IAEA Integrated Science Initiative Workshop on the Transport and Fate of Organic Contaminants (agrochemicals) in Catchments (GSF Laboratories, Munich, Germany; 01-12-2004 - 02-12-2004)
    This workshop is an activity of the Integrated Science initiative. More

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