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Household water treatment: researchers stick with their conclusion that scaling-up is premature
27 Apr 09
Wolf-Peter Schmidt and Sandy Cairncross respond to reader’s comments on their journal article which was quoted in the Source Weekly item “Household water treatment: scaling-up is premature say researchers” of 13 March 2009
The complete scientific community
08 Aug 05
On the "Quote of the Week" of D. Chandrasekharam: "All of us in the scientific community sit in high-tech labs and develop technologies that poor people cannot afford to maintain". Prof. Dr. Willem Van Cotthem, Honorary Professor University of Ghent, Belgium, reacts.
Arsenic: mitigation and research activities in Pakistan since 2001
14 Jun 05
Dr. Tameez Ahmad, Project Officer (WES), UNICEF, Pakistan, disagrees with the assertion by Ross Nickson that “things slowed down a bit after Sept 11 2001 when all attention turned to Afghanistan".
OED case study of the Global Water Partnership
23 Mar 05
Emilio Gabbrielli, Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership, reacts to the Source Weekly item: “Global programmes: impact of GWP and WSP unclear”.

International water conferences
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