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World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an occasion to realise the importance of freshwater. The tech hub is facing an acute water shortage due to failed monsoons and drying groundwater resources. On this day, the UN’s flagship report on water and sanitation is launched every year.
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Alvaro Martin won the 35km race walk at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 ( Getty Images) The Spaniard is a member of the OSCEC, Asociacion 25 de Marzo and Cultural Moria. The 29-year-old has a degree in law and has one in political science.
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Global Water Crisis In 2020, Germanwatch published a report that listed Pakistan as the 5th most susceptible nation to climate change. This dire situation is echoed globally, as evidenced by a recent poll conducted by One Young World, a community of over 17,000 young leaders and ambassadors. For many communities, collecting water is a matter of survival, and it has a clear impact on the social and gender norms of the area.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, I edited Change, a higher-education magazine that trumpeted what the internet and World Wide Web could do for us. The “then some” gave us an open sewer, the worldwide enabling of the worst among us. It is now a world of cyberattacks, online bullying, denials of service, data breaches, fake images, ransomware gangs, voice cloning, spyware and chatbots. The harms multiply, now fueled by artificial intelligence
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

despite this decline, the services sector showed resilience with a $500 billion (eight per cent) increase from the previous year, while trade in goods experienced a $1.3 trillion, or five per cent, decline compared to 2022. Developing countries, especially those in Africa, East Asia and South Asia, saw a return to growth.
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Bank of America’s (BofA) closely-watched monthly survey of global asset managers underlined the point this week. But almost a quarter of the BofA survey respondents now favour “no landing” over the next 12 months at least – up from last month’s 19% and almost four times the share who expected it at the end of last year.
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2 years ago Read more at The Star Online

Adm. John C. Aquilino told the Senate Armed Services Committee on China’s expanding geopolitical objectives. The second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea has long been a subject of territorial dispute between China, the Philippines, and Taiwan. In written testimony, INDOPACOM warned that Beijing continues its “aggressive military buildup, modernization, and coercive gray-zone operations” Earlier this month, China announced a 7.2 percent increase in its defense budget to
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Globally, 2.2 billion people still live without access to safe drinking water. 3.5 billion people lack access to safely managed sanitation, report says. Water underpins prosperity through health, education, food and energy security, employment, sustainable ecosystems, and equitably sharing these benefits promotes peace.
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World Water Day, held every year since 1993, raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. At no point in the last century have water shortages been so severe. Spain has seen three years of below-average rainfall amid record high temperatures.
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World Water Day serves as a reminder that access to water is a human right. Since 2006, Samsung has conducted numerous events involving employees and local communities. In line with this year’s theme of “Leveraging Water for Peace,” Samsung organized special activities such as providing drinking water support for those in need.
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2 years ago Read more at Samsung Global Newsroom