Sustainable Developments |
3rd
World Water Forum: March 16-23, 2003 |
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Sustainable
Developments:
| Ministerial Conference: Opening Plenary |
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Ryutaro
Hashimoto, Chair of the National Steering Committee of the 3rd World
Water Forum
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| Roseline Bachelot-Narquin, French Minister of Ecology and Sustainable Development, and Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Chair of the session, Chikage Oogi |
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| A presentation is made by Wang Shucheng, Chinese Minister of Water Resources, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International President |
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UNEP
Executive Director Klaus Toepfer addresses the Ministerial Conference
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Hilda
Grace Coelho, President of the Center for Rural Studies and Development,
and Klaus Toepfer, UNEP Executive Director
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Koichiro
Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General, making his presentation (left)
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| Ministerial Conference: Sub-Group Meetings |
| Ronnie Kasrils, South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (center) chaired the session on Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation |
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Ian
Johnson, World Bank (center) chaired the session on Water for Food and
Rural Development
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Guy
Rogers, Water Media Network (left) and Prabha Khoshla, Gender and Water
Alliance (right)
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Water
Resources and Management and Benefit Sharing Chair Chair Arjun Charan
Sethi, Indian Minister of Water Resources (right)
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Philippe
Roch, State Secretary for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Switzerland,
chaired the session on Water Pollution Prevention and Ecosystem Conservation
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Hans van Ginkel, UNU, and Delmar Blasco, Secretary General for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands |
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Poland
during the discussion (left) and Rodoula Zissi, Greek Deputy Minister
for Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works
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Disaster
Mitigation and Risk Management Chair Ir. Soenamo, Minister of Settlements
and Regional Infrastructure, Indonesia (right)
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| Launch of the Water World Development Report: 'Water for People, Water for Life' |
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Pradeep
Aggarwal, UN-Water, chaired the session, which opened with a choir service
performed by Kyoto Junior Children's Choir
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| Left to right: Louise Fresco, FAO, UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer, Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director-General |
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Gordon
Young, World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)
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Richard Jolly, WSSCC |
| Children's World Water Forum Press Conference |
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| Jafrin Talukder, Canada, Temiday Israel Abdullai, Nigeria (left) and Samah Ali, Egypt, with her interpreter |
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