Definition: This entry gives the total length of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012
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Water Country seeks to break Guinness World Record
Seacoast Online - 5/22/2013 5:55:44 AM
PORTSMOUTH — Water Country will join forces with the nation's top water safety and training organizations next month to present the World's Largest Swimming Lesson. The goal is to build awareness about the importance of teaching children to ...
Pollution risks worse for developing world women
United Press International - 5/21/2013 10:28:56 AM
{WOMENSENEWS}--Standing ankle deep in black oil in a green field in Nigeria, Donna Vorhees was startled not by the pollutant inching up her boots, but by the two barefoot women inching past her. "They were harvesting cassava root even though ...
World Bank Launches US$40 Million Phase II of its Water Partnership Program
The World Bank Group - 5/21/2013 3:15:16 PM
countries will not be able to achieve water security and inclusive green growth. The launch of the WPP in 2009 was part of the World Bank’s response to the global water challenges. Phase I of the program funded over 200 activities in more than ...
World Bank Supports Irrigation Systems Enhancement in Armenia
The World Bank Group - 5/22/2013 10:23:35 PM
This will potentially bring about 2,400 ha of formerly irrigated agricultural fields back to irrigation, leading to increased agricultural production. “The Bank’s support to agriculture in Armenia has continued for the last two decades ...
U.S. Strategy on Water, Development a “Major Advance”
ipsnews.net - 5/22/2013 12:40:47 AM
“Achieving water ... “Plus, you can’t forget about the poor communities in middle-income countries. The new strategy can be very pro-poor, depending on how one interprets it, but these are issues on which we need to continue to work with USAID.”
Swimmer Cullen Jones on the Road for Water Safety
ABC News - 5/22/2013 3:21:15 PM
In Beijing and London, U.S. Olympian Cullen Jones was fierce in the water, bringing home gold and silver and setting a world record along the way ... local pools to provide lessons and tours the country urging water safety.
First Water Integrity Forum comes off June 2013 in Delft, Netherlands
ghanabusinessnews.com - 5/22/2013 7:57:26 AM
The first ever international forum on water integrity dubbed Water Integrity Forum, takes place in Delft, the Netherlands from June 5, 2013 to June 7, 2013. Co-organised by the Water Integrity Network (WIN), Water Governance Centre (WGC) and ...
Water to become the main focus in 2013′s International Biodiversity Day
Spy Ghana - 5/22/2013 9:44:48 AM
According to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), the United Nations Educational ... and carry out suitable celebrations for the date of 29 December, given the number of holidays that coincide around that time of year.
UN urges collective efforts to achieve ‘water secure world’ on Day for Biological Diversity
ReliefWeb - 5/22/2013 7:53:16 PM
22 May 2013 – Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to ...
Leading a Push for Clean Water
New York Times - 5/22/2013 1:45:12 AM
in India and in some other parts of the world, like sub-Saharan Africa, water collection and management is women’s work. As the heat and dust sweep over the plains of the Subcontinent, dragging large swaths of the country into the long dry ...
World Biodiversity Day: It's time for celebration
Times of India - 5/22/2013 9:37:39 AM
It's time for this year's theme ... even more than anyone could ever imagine. So, help me strive to achieve success throughout the world by learning more about me. In this year's International Day for Biological Diversity (Or World Biodiversity ...
Water, the Great Regional Threat
thediplomat.com - 5/22/2013 8:11:45 AM
“It is an expression of intention to place importance on water management and in inter-country collaboration for the managing ... which want to build two of the world's biggest hydro-electric power stations, have dominated their relationship ...
What are businesses doing for World Water Day?
Mother Nature Network - 5/19/2013 11:53:02 PM
$450,000 grant to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The grant will fund a multi-objective water stewardship program focused on preserving Taihu Lake in China. Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in the country and is a primary water source for ...
UN Urges Collective Efforts to Achieve ‘Water Secure World’
Scoop - 5/22/2013 10:37:54 PM
New York, May 22 2013 - Unless greater efforts are made to reverse current trends, the world will run out of freshwater, the United Nations said today marking the International Day for Biological Diversity and urging stronger scientific alliances to ...
Control the rivers, control the world
Times-News - 5/19/2013 7:53:50 AM
But with 20 percent of the world’s population and only seven percent of its fresh water, China is stretched thin ... Turkey and the downstream countries along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers; and even the states upstream and downstream along the Colorado ...
