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Access to clean water down due to urbanisation: UNStockholm (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 Global efforts to improve access to drinking water have been hampered by rapid urbanisation, with the proportion of people in urban areas with access actually declining, according to UN figures presented at a conference in Stockholm this week. "In cities, there are today more people suffering from a poor and unsatisfactory access to safe water and sanitation than at the end of the 20th century," Gerard Payen, who heads up the International Federation of Private Water Operators (AquaFed), said in a s ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2010A new food fight has stirred up the locavore movement, which promotes eating of local products, after fresh challenges to the assumption that the practice promotes environmental sustainability. The locavore movement, which has been gaining steam rapidly since emerging in California in 2005, is now boiling over following a commentary last month suggesting that the "math" underpinning the prac ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2010A total of 87 children had to be hospitalised after eating yoghurt at a kindergarten in northwest China, state media reported Saturday, as local officials called for better food safety supervision. Teachers reported the children, aged three to five, at the school in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, suffered fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach problems on Friday afternoon, the offic ... more 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Sep 03, 2010As climate change intensifies drought conditions in Africa and sparks fears of a new cycle of crippling food shortages, a new study finds widespread adoption of recently developed drought-tolerant varieties of maize could boost harvests in 13 African countries by 10 to 34 percent and generate up to US$1.5 billion in benefits for producers and consumers. "We need to move deliberately, but w ... more |
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LockMart Advancing on Next-Gen Commercial Remote Sensing System For GeoEyeSunnyvale CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2010 The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite system known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed on-schedule a System Requirements Review (SRR), an important program milestone that precedes the Preliminary Design Review. With launch scheduled to support start of operations in 2013, Lockheed Martin is developing GeoEye-2 under a fixed price contract to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) EnhancedView commer ... read more |
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