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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

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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.

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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".

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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”.

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