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		<title>How about water quality monitoring on Planet Earth?</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/how-about-water-quality-monitoring-on-planet-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the ultimate irony. The moon was bombed to find water. Prior to that, the discovery of water molecules in the moon had made it to the headlines of every newspaper.

Note that when reports said “water on the moon”, they were not talking about oceans, rivers, lakes or even puddles! They were just saying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=76&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is climate change</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/this-is-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Utilities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, people were wondering what the actual impact of climate change would be on water utilities. The answers were vague – no one really knew. But everyone knew about rising temperatures, melting glaciers, floods, droughts, extreme weather conditions, and encroaching seas. Homilies about the need to be more resilient to climate change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=73&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water – the medium for climate change</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/water-%e2%80%93-the-medium-for-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With just a few months left for the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (also called COP15); many water sector professionals are crossing their fingers and hoping that water will be a part of the negotiations. “The importance of water must be properly and adequately reflected within the COP-15 agreement, and in processes beyond COP-15,” was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=69&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our fate is tied to the oceans</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/our-fate-is-tied-to-the-oceans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I find myself writing about water pollution.
I went to an ‘exclusive’ holiday resort in India this June. The resort had all the luxuries one could ever want. What’s more, it was right near a seemingly enticing sea beach. Unsuspectingly, I ran towards the water only to find myself in contact with a brown, oil-like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=64&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Realising sustainability</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/realising-sustainability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent panel discussion amongst water industry leaders, I noticed that the word sustainability was being used quite liberally. On further questioning, I came to realise that it was all about financial sustainability of the companies themselves!
More than two decades ago, the Brundtland Report said that sustainable development was one which met the needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=62&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in waste?</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/living-in-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Water Assessment Programme has just confirmed what everyone knew. Human-generated water pollution is rising all over the world and is seriously threatening human and ecosystem health.
Meanwhile, a TV documentary ‘Poisoned Waters’ aired in the US last month showed how deodorants, prescription medicines and household cleaners are finding their way into sewers, storm drains, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=60&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The debates drag on</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/the-debates-drag-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drinking water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul, it was good to hear some new topics being discussed such as the energy-water linkage, the need for water-related data and the impact of the financial crisis on the water sector.
But one set of debates that never seem to go away are the &#8216;Is water a human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=58&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Water at Davos</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-politics-of-water-at-davos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drinking water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discussing water at the World Economic Forum in Davos where the world&#8217;s political and business leaders gather is quite a recent phenomenon. &#8220;Water has moved up the global and Davos agenda,&#8221; declared Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Insititute while speaking at a session titled &#8216;The Politics of Water&#8217;.
However, Peter Brabeck-Latmathe, Chairman of the Board, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=56&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plagued by Plastic</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/plagued-by-plastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquatic life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plastic bags]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As our group admired Acosol&#8217;s odour-free wastewater treatment in Benalmadena, Spain, a delegate from India exclaimed, &#8220;But there are so many plastic bags clogging the screens. I didn&#8217;t imagine Europe having this problem too!&#8221; The plant manager ruefully revealed that plastic bags were indeed a regular nuisance.
Plastic bags seem to have become as ubiquitous as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=54&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gallons of water for some coffee?</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/gallons-of-water-for-some-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water conservation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a friend informed me last month that the well-known Starbucks Coffee chain was wasting millions of gallons of water a day, it came as a big shock. Surely, the coffee chain which claims to embrace green principles by requesting customers to bring their own tumblers instead of consuming paper cups could not commit such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&blog=1356539&post=51&subd=sahanasingh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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