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In Week 5 of "A Developing World", we investigate water in a development context.

First we will view a short video on the issues surrounding water, followed by a discussion. This will then be followed with a presentation by Mike McGarry and Farhat Sultana on their work with community participation in water supplys in Pakistan.

Water Links:

• Global Water Partnership - International network on water management issues
  
• International Water and Sanitation Centre - Affordable technologies for water and sanitation
  
• WEDC - Water Engineering Development Centre - Appropriate technology
  
• World Water Council - International water policy think tank
  
• Water Aid - UK based NGO doing rural water supply projects
  
• Water Can - Canada based NGO doing rural water supply projects
  
• The Water Page & The African Water Page - Water Issues
• Water Research Commission - South Africa - Water issues & links in southern Africa
  
• Environment Canada Freshwater Site
  
• International Conference on Freshwater (Bonn, Germany, December 2001) - website includes background papers around the theme of "how can freshwater management be improved in practice?"
  
• International Rivers Network - supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds.
• International Water Law Project

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