Blog year2008 in october is about ending poverty http://events.takingitglobal.org/20255 so we hope this week's syndication to 100 blogs will exponentialise to tens of thousands of blogs by then, with a little help from friends like you

sustainability club http://sustainabilityclub.com

social business club http://www.socialbusinessclub.net

collaboration cafe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I

yunus 10000 http://yunus10000.com collaboration coordinators for youth dialogues in that city and between cities together with invitations to action specific to each video good news story - eg if you want microcredit to beat off big banks why not help any school try out micro credit with the world's simplest program small change, big changes - a microloanfoundation franchise

Peers across hemispheres and I are far more interested in ensuring that each of these intercity movements vetoes any uses of 20th c failing system methods that the majority of club coordinators -or where elected an honorary board - vote against, than prescribing revenue models.

OPEN SOURCING THE CLUBS
Obviously we should want coordinators to make a living out of work input whlst at the same time recognising that being a club coordinator is probably worth more than having many a professional qualification - or needs to become so if this world is to be sustainable. Equally where profits are repeatedly generated I assume we can find a way iof agreeing some sliding scale that should be contributed either to your favourite grassroots organsiation in bangladesh or to a small list of other potential grassroots partners of future capitalism which should probably need at least 75 of members refendum to confirm

I am very happy if people will negotiate what other rules they would need to want to participate as well as to clarify where they want diferent contant at the mother webs. The main web system I use costs $35 a year per web so its not difficult to imagine that major cties will also want to set up their own branch web or of course a free blog - either of which we will happily linmk from the top of the mother web.

Obviously some of our constitution needs double checking with for example the 100000 bangladeshi's and other Gandhians who are the main practical exemplar of the values we seek to network worldwide so that the future sustains 7 billion brilliant jobs and goodwill multiplying across all women, children and even men.

We wish to learn from each city's most successful ways of mobilising and cross-cultural celebration, as well as metods for ensuring that any action network actually reaches to those in most desperate need of its service. This is one of the big lessons of bangladeshi experience -reiterated by every micro-system designer in bangladesh we have interviewed - once a networks starts empowering the entrepreneur inside it will never get deeper than the deepest needsholders it begins with. This is a lesson that many global NGOs seem never to have begun to grade.

chris macrae http://worldentrepreneur.net
washington dc inquiries desk usa 301 881 1655 info@worldcitizen.tv
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Hi-Trust Map of Water

This is an 8 year round up of this blog (itself in life 2 as our older blog got randomly chopped when google automatically deleted blogs without checking to see if they flowed content or spam)

Henceforth, we primarily wish to unite around the social busines worlds of water whose first 2 leadres are grameen and veolia; we will be turing almost all our posts towards searches and action learning learned from that wordwide web trust mapping in the purpsoe of water - you can see the likely early world leaders joining this game at http://yunuspartners.com/

Meanwhile on the much more grounded levels that our citizen networks have been able to play, here is a review -warts and all - of weher we mainly got in corresponding for water , part of a serial of interonnecetd search exercises which we collaborate around and are helped by the likes of http://journalistsforhumanity.com/ and http://futuresunited.com/ and http://saintjames.tv/we'll come back occasionally to this post to correct typos , add in links (mail info@worldcitizen.tv if you know a web that is part of teh same intercity Q&A for the waters of humanity) and to correct any failures in the memory call of chris who happened to post this

Water and Webs everywhere, but not a transparent flow that collaborates for bottom billion Re: Filming Turning points in history - Satyagraha21 - how social interActions truly flowThursday, 26 June, 2008 5:28 PMFrom:"christopher macrae" To:"Peter Burgess"
&management at simpol.org, babymilkaction.org brafilaians for the human right of water photosynthesis algae oil inventors, corrdinator of 100 Indian vilage and watershed projects, "presidio sustainabiliy school" pilarguerrero s maerican lse alumni on facebook falth and monetary justoice group leaders UK fringe make poverty & hunger history open space networks of london "spencer" New Yorks' Africans for Conflict Resolution Australians for sustainability ... moreCc:"Mark Chaplin" http://yunusforum.net Utah's female entrepreneur and filmaking networks, microfinance club new york, Harvrad's associlation of adjunct professors for community health and education Bolivians and s.americans in ,london, aga khan uni researcehers in bridging east and west alumni of the new york school of filmakers pioneers of chnage out of africa canada's politician/party, brixton hive , i-genous founder justmeans founder agentsofawareness founder, http://www.omagine.com/ founder http://flowidealism.org/ Flying Fins for humanity in education

Future Capitalism: How can we come together from all our action learnings to collaborate microentrepreneurially around a Trust Map of Water

This is of extreme interest to me (the mathematician and mapmaker which are my foci)- about 9 years ago I knew nothing practical about ecology flows around the planet other than wishing since 1984 that we would invest in abundant photosynthesis of solar, and knowing that in the 40 countries I had worked in -cultures and poverty and much else about humanity's consequences (especially womens lives) ultimately were conditioned by whether you had a comly life with clean water- neither too little nor too much of it

Here this flow has 2 different ways forward
Way Ahead 1
It is such a pity that anita roderick is no longer with us because at least out of the uk she flowed harmoniously the right combination of knowhow about women, water, fair trade to mobilise good sense that is now transparently needed. She also made it clear that bolivia was an epicentre of people power for water because they had already had to fight the bechtel/usa gov war there to regain democracy. Bechtel had got one government to pass a law making it illegal to colect rainwater - the carbon copy of british imperialism making salt collection from sea water illegal- which becane Gandhi's and the one and only peace march worth spending citizen time concerned with bottom billion peoples on (there are a zillion ways to network and open space a more informed revoltion than street marching). We (ie mainly john blundell's http://www.simpol.org/ assisted by faith people like peter challen and mike brady and some early colaboration cafes http://collaborationcafe.blogspot.com/ and then during make poverty history and 7/7 year patrick moore and 40 people who came to the islington hub on open space invitaion dont come unless your number 1 issue is expoentially colapsing http://saintjames.tv/ ) started a 20 person bookclub around her book on water at London's European Social Forum 2004 but I had to relocate across atlantic late in 2005 soon after that and although the catholic church in brazil was one organisation that wanted to distribute local water knowhow through its 9000 branches and we were introduced to effectively the head of its water university, I have failed to keep connecting that network around rich citizens who most needed to unlearn before they could help. 90% of green debates in rich cities are noise sponsored by big business interests (as chaotic in the own way as the ban the bomb peace movements that were actually sponsored out of Moscow in the 1960s) and going nowhere that will integrate the planet in sustainability in time.Back oct 2006, 2 londoners whom I met whose expertise could have been epicentral in mobilising more common sense in london promised to use some funds I lent them to start that and then never flowed anything that I cold understand. By now we were supposed to have hubbed a semi-permanent peoples theatre on the most fashionable and hi-profile south bank in Lomdon for debating these sorts of issues everyday until the bbc could no longer ignore 360 degrees debates on ecology as needing more programming and fun than soocer or olympics games. http://saintjames.tv/ I have learnt my collaboration entrepreneur lesson -water and ecology is too big a starting place for me to help host debates until or unless my peers and I in rich cities are trusted by the majority of the 100,000 grassroots service networkers in bangladesh. http://yunuspartners.com/

Way Ahead 2
Then I met several people who told me their life-stories at local community levels about clean water.It became evedent that water is the most simple system flow of all that there should be a 1st to 12 grade curriculum of at every school but starting with the challenges water gives to our locality and how these may be 100% opposite of another. And so why schools need to encourage every 5th grader to be able to host small openm space circles with cross-cultural compositions - something both harrison owen 300,000 open spaces experienced, and lucknow the gandhi-montesorri 300,000 5th graders experienced support with their lifetime alumni netowrks and which we published in world citizen guides http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm?startrow=3 that a small team of people helped edit but failed to distribute for erasons that never really became clear other than hosting large meetings was something at the start of 007 they said was a main wish and competence but by middle of 07 had drowned in some vanity of software destruction exercises of mindnumbing trust mapping impact on just about everyone else - or so it seemsGlobally and geopolitically it also became evident that the world's largest water utilities and their construction partners were:-not capable at 90% of extreme local problems of water-were in least transparent cases suddenly being drive by privatise profit extraction do not solve social problems let alone share how ignorant each of our global boxes is about the hundreds of different mini-croses of water that need to be surveyed at each local place to profile what solutions it most needs.

Water, Water, Water (everywhere but not to drink) WebWebWeb everywhere but to winwwinwin

In other words if the www's does not open source water knowledge for the poor, we are all heading at exponentially destructing speed towards extermination; equally if we could stand up http://futuresunited.com/ for water transparency we would simulataneous learn stuff about how higeher order transparency needs to be systemised into every organisational typology from local contexts up if we are not to spin ever more conflicts (ie if we are not to spin ever more poverty among the bottom billion)Peter New Yorkso I find your report that transparency is making a concerted effort around water fabulous news; I would love to know who in this circulation lists and who's peers may think tyhis is as good news as I do;its early days now but we do know that the Bangladeshi networks (new development model of social busienss entrepreneurship) priortitses collaboration around water as one of the number 1 first priorities, as the internet for the poor is built for the first timeI have added in the to list a few people who have helped my own particular busting of ingnorance about water. whether they are online etc I dont knowWhichever locality of the world drives you most, if you will look you will find water and transparency debates come before practising any sustainability good. So I forget whether the transparency and rights gurus peter eigen and mary robinson (both of whom I know mean well but I have no idea what they compound) are still on AfricaPP http://africaplusplus.com/ (Progress Panel) but eg Muhammad Yunus is. And the African Progress Panel's job is to be the examination scorecard for the leaders of G8. And it issues its scorecard before the G8 meet -its first one is just out. And of course as a public document it may seem to some too polite, but it is unequivocal you dont have the knowledge of the poor for any of the initiatives you wish to comand and control to improve transparency. Raise funds by all means but socila business partner them as microfunds, and let people who know how to do CIA banking (community impact analyis and sustainability investment) be youyr tansparency chnagemakers and number 1 network of humanity.chris macrae 301 881 1655 http://saintjames.tv/ --- On Thu, 26/6/08, Peter Burgess <peterbnyc@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear ColleaguesTransparency International (TI) launched its 2008 Global Corruption Report with a focus on the water sector today at the UN in New YorkThere was a more lively discussion than is usual at these events, thanks to a very effective moderator Joseph Treaster. The stage was set by Dr. Huguette Labelle, Chair of TI.I had the chance to observe that corruption has been an issue for a very long time, and one of the jobs of accountants is to help constrain corruption by having decent accounting systems ... but we seem to have ignored this dimension of corruption control for the past two or three decades at least! I observed that I got myself into trouble with the World Bank and its beneficiaries 20 years ago because I wanted better accounting so that there could be some accountability for performance.For some reason these remarks resonated with the panel and there was a lively ongoing discussion. Afterwards I had the chance to talk to Dr. Labelle and the others to introduce our efforts to develop and deploy Accountancy for Community Impact (ACI) and I was gratified that this group seemed to understand quite clearly how ACI would work ... in fact one of the panelists knew something of an initiative in Bangalore that had similar characteristics of mobilizing public feedback about organizational performance in a community.The attached is a 1 page handout if anyone is interested. I would welcome feedback and thoughts on this.I should add one small bit of clarification ... my view of accountancy is NOT that it is a sophisticated system of analysis and valuation but that it is merely a very simple way of getting facts together and organizing them so they have some clarity. How the facts get analyzed to help understand what is going on is a separate step ... and in this regard I totally embrace Chris's concern about multiple exponentials that describe the dynamic of development, and how society's progress needs to be managed.With best wishesPeter

can you help water angels help yunus help you?

About 6 years ago, several of us were moderating quite large webs or network positions in days when we thought that eg ecademy.com and knowledgeboard.com were going to grow as free worldwide social knowhow spaces among hundreds of thousands of concerned people; a question what is the single most connecting information (Q&A) context the worldwide needs to interact. water caused more agreement than any other single context. Beyond yogurt and banking, water is also the biggest map Dr Yunus is currently demanding freedom of market knowhow on, and which 10000 village telecentres will soon be needing a common trust map in asking water-interfacing knowledge that spreads around the world of e-agriculture http://egrameen.com ; presumably water is potentially quite a large compass of social actions in many communities

so here are some questions:

mostofa- can you find out, is there someone in Grameen who is acting as an editor (or knowledge centre) of what grameen knows about water; also could you ask the alumni circulation list of clinton global uni who met at new orlenas if any want to form a special interest group on water

rick/anne/patrick/mitchell - promises have been made by photosythesis open source netwporks on conducting surveys of leading ecological institutes for what they can contribute to free university peer to peer curricula- has anything emerged on this that can help with the first water angels survey below- or maybe the info is so basic you can provide a lot of the answers;similarly a water quix survey handout could have been the simplest south bank citizens feedback mechanism

rebecca, lesley, samuel- does this connect at all with kenya summit or other africa grassroots communications projects or free university meta-hubs or virtually linking in movements - eg there is at least one large facebook water-africa conference which happens soon after 12 months of announcements; does africa ++ have a special interest group on water or agriculture

lilly,sabine - is there a special interest water network among the 700 who attended yunus st james

tav, guilhem, robert de s -after '7 years of development" has any plex, peoplesworld or other software got a subversion that could be put up to try its potential for trust mapping water

franklin - are there some contributions you can make from being at centre of http://water-vis-a-bility.net :

peter ditto through being at centre of http://tr-ac-net.org

others: can you join the facebook version of water angels quest http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13918057255 and tell us whether it is a colaboration quest that can be replicated to yourt other favourite social networking tool or citizen hubs/forums/student unions searches etc; does anyione want to be an officer of water angels at facebook

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delihgted if experts have editing suggestsions; this is current water angels description of duties

Water angels is a peoples movement that aims to freely share basic water knowledge around the world. We also map water as probably the most basic of system flows. If children and societies do not appreciate systemic and sustainability consequences of something as all connecting as water, we miss the opportunity to make better systemic local to global decisions of every kind. In both theoretical and practical senses , every compound risk to survival of our species - or large subpopulations like those that whose lands may be washed away by climate change – is a system’s mapping crisis. Such crises are made many times worse than they need be by not enough system literacy being distributed wherever there are people.

First Action Challenge of Water Angels

Compile a catalogue that through electronic networks can become as iteratively detailed as societies – and different educational grades from child to adult - need on the hundred of different water problems. At a detailed level of resolution, a water atlas would show millions of localities with water problems ranging from no water at all to plenty of dirty water but not enough clean water, to too much water (places that get flooded). There are also places whose water depends on what neighbours accidentally or hostilely do upstream.

Subsequent System Maps of Water Angels
Water use also needs to be modelled for such dynamic interactions as personal drinking, community keeping clean, agricultural and industrial. As a whole, these uses reveal that water can be subject to all sorts of exponential changes. For example like topical crises in basic food markets in Asia or banking liquidity around the world, if a place has any time of the year when it has only just enough water for vital needs – and then even temporarily loses 10% of supply – the economic crisis is that costs may go up hundreds of per cent and the human crisis may be greater in lives lost. The other main crisis of system literacy can be described as not detecting Future-Now shocks. Due to current personal and governmental literacies and behaviours, the world is exponentially decreasing its stocks of water. As an example, this means that in most richer parts of the globe where water is relatively abundant and so cheap, we are not preparing for a generation or half a generation away when costs of water are much more. If the world does not rapidly increase transparency and collaboration capabilities around water, then it is quite likely that water will be the root cause of even more wars than oil has been over the last half century. If children and adults cannot visualise how to wholly share true maps on a flow as network connecting locally to globally as water, the chances of developing correct biomass maps where water’s flows are interfaced with one or more other worldwide flows are next to zero. It is not an exaggeration to say that water mapping is a necessary skill for there to be any chance of resolving climate crisis in time.

chris macrae us 301 881 1655
http://waterangels.blogspot.com/

add to our 007 listings of water heroes and webs at omidyar.net

http://www.omidyar.net/group/connectors/news/5/0/

join London-world debates on climate connections with clean water and energy at http://passports.jp and http://southbank.tv

info@worldcitizen.tv invites you to vote on the best news for the peoples water and the poeples climate of 2007

current rankings
1 Brazil - Launch of water-vis-ability of peoples water and religious networks started in Brazil and connceting most South and East hemispheres as well as a few NW countries - eg Switzerland

2 London - publication by HM Treasury & Stern that Climate Crisis has reached the satge that over 1% of world economy wil need to be wholly reinvested to save 20%. This catapults London to top of elague of world climate collaboration citizens - a leaguetable pioneered by Nashville where 1000 people have been taught inconvenent climate truth slide presenting by Al Gore

3 London, southbank.tv nomination - launch of ClimateSpace on the Royal Festival Hall & Queen Elizabeth concourses also know by parts of the South Bank as Green in the City - the key is ecology. This photosynthesis building space opens for spring and summer seasons and encourages world citizen freedom of questioning debates on how on earth do we save the climate and resolve other crises that are globally interconnecting.

National Geographic, D.C. -
Leading experts from 13 countries signed a declaration, which appears in today's issue of the journal Nature, that says the biodiversity community must become ...


Signatories agianst Biodiversity Disaster

Signatories include Robert Watson, Chief Scientist at the World Bank, who chairs or has chaired several global scientific collaborations including the IPCC, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Ozone Assessment Panel.

Others among the signatories are two former chairs of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Montreal-based Convention on Biological Diversity, Alfred Oteng-Yeboah of Ghana and Peter Schei of Norway, as well as:

Mary Kalin Arroyo, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Chile
Didier Babin, Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), France
Robert Barbault, Ecology and Biodiversity Management Department, National Museum of Natural History, France
Michael Donoghue, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA
Madhav Gadgil, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India
Christoph Häuser, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Germany
Carlo Heip, Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Anne Larigauderie, DIVERSITAS Secretariat, Paris, France
Michel Loreau of McGill University, Canada, Chair of the Board of DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity;
Keping Ma, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Georgina Mace, UK Institute of Zoology;
H.A. Mooney, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA
Charles Perrings, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA, Vice-Chair, DIVERSITAS
Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA;
Jose Sarukhan, Instituto de Ecología, National University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico; and
Robert J. Scholes, Natural Resources and Environment, CSIR, South Africa.

Report from 2006 World Water Forum
capacity building and social learning

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

World Water Day

Our particular approach is to celebrate this throughout the year in the following way.

We invite short resumes of different types of water crisis solution. Whenever suitable resumes they come in to me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, I will publish them with the March 22 date stamp. If a particular solution method starts getting very detailed we can link it to its own space

Here is an emerging example

Watersheds
-a method that has been used for 25 years to resolve the sustainability challenge of connecting 100 rural villages at the benchmark example of visa in India, whose local NGO coordinator I have met

-a method reviewed as follows in recent work by Shambu Prasad and team, and part of an ongoing forum discussion at GandhiMBA and ClubofAhmedabad:
In recent years international agricultural research centers had to respond to changed mandates with a moreexplicit focus on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability from an earlier focus on improvedagricultural productivity. Natural resource management (NRM) research has been an important area that has witnessed several institutional changes within the CGIAR system for the fulfillments of these goals. Most research centers have sought and promoted innovations through concepts such as participatory research, partnerships and alternatives to the transfer of technology approach. In this report we argue that while these changes have indeed contributed to a greater poverty focus of the CG centers, there is a greater need to understand the practice of science amongst these centers and the underlying institutional constraints that hinder or enhance learning in the proposed transition of these research centers into learning organizations. In this study the institutional history of a CG center has been used as a tool to promoteinstitutional learning and change. It demonstrates that research managers in the CG system have not adequately accessed the institutional innovations of its own scientists in facilitating changes under newer mandates. By tracing the various ups and downs of ICRISAT’s thirty-year involvement in NRM research,this report points to the need for greater sensitivity in research design towards institutional constraints that prevent faster learning and the need for evolving mechanisms to enable real time learning in projects.

BestForWorld, SOSgames, ClubofVillage & GandhiMba ask : can we develop a cluetrail game for Watershed - eg Watershed**visa's 100 villages**Shambu Prasad**CGIAR**ICRISAT
A cluetrail is the opposite of Chinese Whispers. Instead of a chain of information diluting as it flows along, it attempts to integrate in an extra 360 degree Q&A (Question & Answering coordinate for communal action learning) multiplier around the origin or system calalyst identified. It does this by assuming that discussions can iterate through time and as diverse but passionately concerned people transparently join in

TO BE the cluetrail's unique gravity for relentless improvement as the deepest cross-contextual collaboration force-

Who's celebrating World Water Day - and how?

Ashoka fellows nominated for water projects

we the world's celebration of World Water Day in New York

WATER ON THE MARCH

1 Water is an integral part of what may turn out to be the most collaborative treasure hunt mapping game the world has ever connected - be here to stake your extreme climate's locality

2 The whole of Feb 28 Front Page of The Independent, one of Britian's 4 largest serious daily newpapers, was devoted to and headlined by WATER WARS. Maps highlighted boundary problems between these adjacent nations:
Israel, Jordan & Palestine
Turkey & Syria
China & India
Bangladesh &amp; India
Ethiopia & Egypt
Angola & Namibia
(tell us if it has left out main wars beteen governemnts); the paper did not begin on part 2 of the story which is where global corporates rush in to take a people's water before they know what compound future worth it has in a century that will implode under water shortages unless algae treasure hunting become popular

3 This extract is taken from http://www.wdm.org.uk and their declaration to cover this month's annual water rights convention (Host 2006 Mexico)
4th World Water Forum
March 2006
The World Water Forum is the major event in the international water industry calendar. This is where the key debates about the role and future of the industry take place. But the event is dominated by the private sector. It is the views of the major water companies and their supporters in the governments of the rich countries that holds the most influence.
WDM will be sending up-to-the-minute blogs, photos and interviews, to keep you posted on all the latest news from the Forum. We also hope to send Andrew Mushi, a Tanzanian water activist, to the WWF. Read more.
WDM aims to challenge that dominance. We will be there:
Exposing the myth that water privatisation is a solution to the global water crisis.
Making sure that the voice of water campaigners from developing countries is heard.
Promoting practical, alternative ways of delivering water to the world's poorest people.
Read the World Water Forum facts

The OECD Observer

http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/1788

A better place

Donald Johnston, Secretary-General of the OECD

Published: March 2006

This is my last editorial for the OECD Observer before I step down as
secretary-general in May 2006. Nevertheless, I will focus on the future,
rather than dwell on the past. That is not to say that we should ignore John
Maynard Keynes¹ advice that we should examine the present, in light of the
past, for the purposes of the future. But sometimes the present and the
future cannot draw many useful lessons from the past.

This is certainly true of the unprecedented global environmental challenge
we face today. I say unprecedented because although there have been periods
of global warming in the past as evidenced by ice core analysis from
Antarctica, never has the intervention of homo sapiens been a contributory
factor. Today, there is hardly a scientist in the field of climatology who
does not consider the rapid rise of carbon dioxide emissions since the
beginning of the Industrial Age over two centuries ago as a major cause of
the steady rise of CO2 in the atmosphere, which now appears to have reached
above 380 parts per million (ppm) and continues to climb.

Many think we are approaching a threshold, perhaps around 550ppm, when
global warming will become irreversible, causing seas to rise from the flow
of melting glaciers and thermal expansion, causing coastal areas to erode,
flood and become uninhabitable for millions of the world¹s people, with the
poorest regions of the world being particularly vulnerable.

Some crops will flourish, though others will wither away. Tropical diseases
will migrate to once temperate climates. People too will be forcibly
displaced, to access water or escape rising seas. Weather patterns will
become even more erratic than today, and few will be spared from hurricanes,
tornadoes, ice storms, monsoon-style rainfalls and droughts. We may already
be too late to prevent some of this from happening, but we can take measures
to slow the process and give ourselves greater time to adapt.

In March, Mexico hosts the 4th World Water Conference. I attended the last
one in Kyoto in 2003. There is, perhaps, no issue more important than that
being addressed at this event. After all, we can exist without oil; we
cannot exist without water.

There are many questions to be addressed. Freshwater distribution over the
planet is very uneven. As shortages become more acute, are we likely to see
migration to oases? Will countries such as Canada come under pressure to
share their abundant natural wealth? Will technologies bring forth
solutions, such as cheaper desalination techniques? Will we be attracted to
less water-intensive crops? How can genetically modified plants help?

In the OECD area, investment concerns are creeping up the water agenda, in
part because of some rather old and creaking infrastructures, and greater
attention is turning to encouraging more efficient use, particularly in
farming. But in general, those of us who live in water-rich areas tend to
focus on health issues. Can we drink the water? Must the distribution system
be upgraded to make our water safe tomorrow? Is quality being carefully
monitored for nitrates, toxins and pathogens?

Much of the world does not have the luxury of worrying too much about the
quality of its water, but rather its very availability! And it appears that
this worry will increase because of climate change.

Recently in China I had the pleasure of meeting a senior member of
Greenpeace. He described to me the potential challenges of the infamous
Yellow River. Apparently it is nourished by rapidly receding glaciers. If
trends continue, these glaciers will soon be gone. And if they disappear, so
too will the Yellow River as we know it. What then? Will all the world¹s
rivers fed by glaciers go the same route? This portends catastrophic social
upheaval.

Will there be mounting pressure to divert water flowing into the seas to
other purposes? Enormous quantities of fresh water flow daily into the
Arctic Ocean from Russia and Canada. Should they instead be diverted to the
south? If not, why not?

There are many challenges lying ahead which we have not yet begun to
address, perhaps because we are not yet ready to accept the horrendous
consequences of global warming. My generation enjoys in most ways the same
world we knew as children: one of unspoiled natural beauty; of diverse
animal and plant life; of new virgin frontiers to explore above and beneath
the seas. All this may now be in jeopardy.

And time is not on our side. By that, I mean you, the next generation. Take
hold of these challenges and bring the only inhabitable planet we know to a
better place.

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NOTE: All signed articles in the OECD Observer express the opinions of the
authors and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the OECD or its
member countries.

All rights reserved. OECD 2006.

Is this the #1 story of our life and times? If not , please tell me what is?

# 1 compelling story of our lives and times???
how abundant energy and clean water - and so the economics of abundance became to be co-created is very simple provided :
you have a good enough map (help us develop it)
you all collaborate around developing this treasure

why
value: because those places with the most extreme climates either have the most desperate energy needs or capabilities to multiply sunshine's energy flows or both
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innovation: they are where people have spent longest with experimenting with solutions, as well as any cross-cultural conflicts or historical errors
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nature: they are where nature most wants to help save the world from the system of system crises of threat and opportunity that waves dynamise

come on humanity, since 1984 scripts from leading economists have suggested this is the major entrepereneurial 1 2 challenge to network collaboratively around, before all our global villages learn how to network other value multipliers and 30000 projects worth open sourcing all over the world

Belated news on how The Berne Declaration cites Chevron as one of the disgarces of 2005 for its polution in Ecuador "Rainforest Chernobyl"

Witness the US charity Amazon watch's testimony

extract:
For more than thirty years, from 1964 to 1992, the oil company Texaco knowingly and
systematically dumped 70 billion liters of toxic waste into rivers, streams, wetlands, and unlined waste pits in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. This environmental and human catastrophe became Chevron’s responsibility when it bought Texaco in a US$45 billion merger in 2001.
Over the years, the toxic contents of Texaco’s unlined waste pits have leeched into the groundwater, streams and rivers of the Ecuadorian Amazon, contaminating the larger ecosystem and sending toxins downstream into Peru. Today, 627 open toxic waste pits remain, some of which are the size of a soccer field. These waste pits continue to leak highly toxic cancer-causing waste into the ground, poisoning the land and water where more than 30,000 local people live. Local residents have no other option but to use these contaminated sources for drinking water.
Thousands of people are slowly being poisoned daily as they consume the water, bathe in local waterways, and breathe the vapors in the air from the waste pits.
Chevron’s operations have resulted in an exploding health crisis. Childhood leukemia rates are four times higher in this area than in other parts of Ecuador. Estimates of the number of local people who have died from oil-related diseases, such as cancer, are shockingly high. Miscarriages among women in this area of Ecuador are significantly more common than in other parts of the country. Some experts consider the environmental impact to be the worst catastrophe on the planet other than Chernobyl.

Even Chevron’s own scientists have gathered evidence that exposes the company’s environmental devastation. For example, recent laboratory reports show that 97 percent of Chevron’s water samples are in violation of Ecuador’s weak environmental laws. In addition, 100 percent of the 22 waste sites tested by the company are still contaminated, even though the company claims to have remediated these sites in the mid-1990’s.

also more at www.chevrontoxico.com

2 dimensions emerging from different big os compasses is much more fascinating for me than 1
here’s an example emerging urgently on my mind
1) www.simpol.org is the pre-eminent open network (and system*system architect mapmakers) concerned with the compass of politics sans frontiers – what debates do all peoples need to connect in having because the sustainability (including freedom and happiness) of 6 billion beings will never be solved just by national politics with its separate geo-borders and its 4-year time intervals2) water : at the end of the day if grown men are going to war over oil (which is substitutable) they may do their people harm, but if they will next go to war over water; this ends the human race because its not substitutable, it cleanliness makes up two thirds of our bodies and their health, and its waves propagated by nature care not about men’s borders –indeed demand network system * system interfacing of a higher order transparency than confused top-down leaders can ever map
so those are 2 quite big global compasses
how can we work at our localities on their living pieces?
well March will be the 2nd of simpol open space cafes in London invited for 1 hour around the Brazilian who’s worked longer to promote understanding of human rights of water than anyone I will ever meet. For example he helped encourage the Catholic Church to make 2004 Year of water and open spaces through its 7000 parishes so the people could discuss that. Or he knows of the 100 projects including an educational curriculum one involving 80000 school children that the river basins of the world's largest dam at Foz are exploring; in fact he co-presented that at the Brazilian embassy in London when last we met.
My living pieces question to you: is whom should we be inviting now to attend this one hour café. I have a few ideas such as those who are later that month inviting Al Gore over to speak and those who are connecting hundreds of nmilions of investment in photosynthesised energy, even celebrities like whomever represents Anita Rodicks views on www.troubledwater.org – but please tell me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if there’s anyone else you know who we should be inviting
chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.ukhttp://clubofbrazil.blogspot.com http://simpol.blogspot.com http://waterangels.blogspot.com

from project30000:Jan 2006: Kenya - Google.org is sponsoring water research:western Kenya to identify ways to prevent child deaths caused by poor water quality and to better understand what works in rural water supply. The research is being conducted by Alix Zwane and Edward Miguel of UC Berkeley and Michael Kremer of Harvard University. -see also water angels

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Notes:
getting google engaged anywhere in water could be a big breakthrough because it will make arguments for water needing grassroot maps of crisis areas and a coding guide of which of several hundred crises actualy inpact each locality easier to get google involved with

This Water Angels annual report is written at a time when google melted down this blog and another 100 co-edited by club of city correspondents. Over the several years, these are the main learnings we recollect about water.

The future of clean water is currently on a downward exponential. and is now a critical system crisis for any future valuation surveyor schooled by preneurs or network mapmakers in economics times. Demand for water increases as countries develops and water pollution also increases. Water wars are at risk of being as common in the 21st C as oil wars in the 20th C. People of the world need to connect and collaborate to resolve water system crises, more urgently than any other ecological crisis we have mapped.

As with many other systemic crises there is a lot of ignorance about water at every age group, and even professional experts seem to be separated by speciality areas which do not always flow together. It really is time that water was seen as a curriculum that all ages could learn from both in its own right and as a systems and networking study that provides perspectives on waves and other dynamic interactions relevant to all maps of living systems.

There are a lot of famous people who appreciate the urgent need for the world to transparently learn about water from the likes of Mikail Gorbachev, to a business women like Anita Roddick who has written one of the most accessible introductions to various water crisis cases, to superstars like Johan Cruyff. In spite of this water seems to be one of those stories that is too big for the media to keep on bringing to the public attention, and little progress seems to be made in assembling an actionable universal curriculum of water, around whose map any interested community could plug and play both questions of most contextual relevance and waste of getting transparent answers.

Unfortunately, we find no evidence that the largest organisations impacting water’s future – such as global utility company, big water users including global corporate soft drinks companies, national governments, other industries that use water to clean their products and spew out polluted water – are collaborating for the good of water and 6 billion beings’ human rights to those minimums are bodies need to drink and cleanse. There are those whose measurement blindness fixating on current or past performance makes them systemically unaware of what future consequences are compounding, and then there are those who profit by separating out what they do from global wave consequences through the vicious strategies associated with economics of externalities.

As well as exhaustion of clean water, 2005 has shown many ways in which water system couples with other natural systems to cause disastrous risks to life including Tsunami, hurricanes like Katrina which included the double whammy of increased power as it flew across hotter oceans and hit land causing New Orleans’ flooding.

Unless grassroots up mapping and correspondence networks are linked transparently to a web that maps the earth at every coordinate with a potential water problem and codes what these are, we will not have globally complete information for anyone to come up with answers that harmonise every local society’s needs, as well as implement the most appropriate solutions in every context.

Perhaps the largest single topic context of Project30000 can expect to be water related. We need to agree benchmarks such as:
Where villages’ water needs can be developed around water sheds, visa is a benchmark example

Where hundreds of thousands of organic agricultures are dependent on the water basins that feed back from a damn, then Foz the world’s largest water damn provides a catalogue of 100 experiments worth looking at and comparing against the water impoverishing cases of a neighbouring country’s use of the same resource

As intercitizen and inter-village journalist networks, we do not claim expertise in the area of water other than being able to voice common sense questions and map whether wholly systemic replies are being made transparent. We welcome experts and amateurs joining in the forward development of water angels and project30000 provided open collaboration is what you want to linkin with us.

For good news we look to the cooperative learning sources of:
Solaroof whose photosynthesis bubble architectures produce clean water as a by-product to developing cleansing energy

The international free water academy, which is a loose people’s network developed out of Brazil and those S American regions which currently have the largest underground freshwater resources to maintain, and who seek to cooperate with citizens anywhere who wish to make the future challenges of water to their lives and livelihood transparent for sustaining every community-up

Look at water crises from every hemisphere

Unfortunately most of the world's water experts and global organisations with most compound impact on water are headquartered in North and West where command & control decisions don't see the grassroots community crises in East & North. THey don't see how to respond in critivcal times, and they don't see how their own governace is compounding exponentially vicious future consequences. If we value humanity having a future, then we can say that these large organsiation's boardroom powers are terribly badly advised by the professional metrics folk they cocoon themselves with.

Even so: water crises are coming nearer NW homes at extraordinary speeds. Examples:
see this BBC Map
remember how Katrina showed how unprepared the world's superpower was for a natural crisis
see the surprise result of the biggest risk Europeans face in the next few years -search GSC

Overall Google of Water Crisis

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Extract from old United Nations University site:
Water comprises the most basic and critical component of all aspects of human life and is an indispensable component of the global life support system. The water environment is characterized by the hydrological cycle, including floods and droughts, with some regions of the world being more vulnerable to their devastating consequences. The widespread scarcity, gradual destruction and aggravated pollution of water resources along with the progressive encroachment of incompatible activities have led to a range of water crises across the globe. The nature of problems and issues requires an integrated planning and management approach. It is also important to recognize the multi-sector utilization of water resources for water supply and sanitation, agriculture, industry, urban development, hydropower generation, fisheries, transportation, recreation, low and flat lands management and other activities.

An integrated approach (must) give due consideration to both water quantity and quality aspects. Particular emphasis is provided on management of transboundary water resources.

Title : Conference Proceedings of Water India 4-International Conference on Water_____Resources Development- Flood Control, Irrigation, Drinking Water, Waterways, Hydro Electric Power & its Transmission SystemPublisher/ Author : CPUYear Published : 2004ISBN/ RNI -Format : Paperback & CDPages : Pp 415
Publication contains details of more than 50 papers accepted for the Conference held in India. Available in two volumes alongwith a CD.For Conference Information, click

Volume I_________ForewordPapers1. Hydropower Maintains its Strong Role in Challenging Times- Ms. Alison Bartle, Editor, Hydropower & Dams2. The Role of Consultants for Technical & Economic Growth of Water Resource Development- Mr Uddesh Kohli, Former CMD, PFC & Chairman, Consultancy Development Centre3. Socio Economic and Environmental Impacts of Water Resources Projects- Mr R. Rangachari, Former Member, CWC& Research Prof., Center for Policy Research4. Effect of Implementation of the Pazhassi Irrigation Project On the Agro- Economic Aspects- Ms Kamalam Joseph, Mr C Pathutty and Mr T Valsan, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, Kunnamangalam, Calicut5. Water resources of the Central Asian Countries, assessment, problems and monitoring- Ms Natalya Agaltseva Central Asian Research Hydro meteorological Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan6. Application of Genetic Algorithms in Water Supply System Life-Cycle Analysis- Dr R. Klasinc, F. Steinman, S. Šant, L. Gosar, P. Banovec, Graz University of Technology, Dept. of Hydr. Structures and Water Res. Management, Austria7. Improving Access to Donor Assisted Water Investments in India; Information Available on the Web- Ms J. Lisa Jorgenson, International Water Specialist, J L Jorgenson & Associates, USA8. Application of Genetic Algorithm in Irrigation Scheduling- Prof. Tawatchai Tingsanchali & Kampanad Bhaktikul, School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand9. Experimental Research on Piano Key Weir- Prof Nayan Sharma, WRDTC, IIT Roorkee & Mr F.Lemperiere, Chairman of HYDROCOOP, France10. Advance Flood Management- Er. Ram Chand, Consulting Engineer, Former Chief Engineer, Punjab Irrigation Dept11. Optimisation of River Water Resources for Irrigation Projects- Mr C.R.M. Patnaik12. Planning and Execution of Anti- Erosion Schemes in Bihar- Mr Dilip Kumar, Assistant Professor of Flood Management, Walmi, Patna13. 3 D FEM Analysis of a Barrage- Mr Ashish Bhargava, Dept. of Earthquake Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee14. Flood Damage Protection Works- Mr M.A Sonawane, AE- II15. Towards A new era for hydropower- Ms. Alison Bartle, Editor, Hydropower & Dams, Acqa Mediant Ltd16. Evaluation of Environmental Impact Mitigation Plan of Lam Ta Khong Pumped-Storage Hydropower Project, Thailand- Prof. Tawatchai Tingsanchali, Tsunemi Watanabe & Kitti Chinshed, School of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand17. O&M of Hydro Power Plants- Safety and Noise Control- A case study of Nagjhari Power House at Khep- Mr Muralidhar Rao, CE (Elec.)18. Modernisation, Refurbishment and Uprating of Hydro Power Plants- A case study of Nagjhari Power House- Kalinadi Hydro Electric Project- Mr Muralidhar Rao, CE (Elec.)19. Hydro Potential and Development Opportunity in Teesta Basin for West Bengal and Sikkim- Mr G.Baidya, Chief Engineer, NHPC20. Effect of Tail Race Water Level on the Work Done by the Fransis Turbine & It’s Effect on Cavitation of the Turbine- Mr B.K.Janvir, Executive Engineer, MSEB21. Role of Irrigation and Drainage in food production and sustainable rural development- Mr V.B.Patel, Former Chairman CWC22. Inter Linking of rivers in India- Mr Krishna Murari.23. Water Prudent Management of Our Resources- Mr M.B. Deshmukh, Former SE24. A Feasible Method for Ground Water Extraction in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar- Dr. A.K.Bhattacharya, Dr. S.Basak & Mr P.Maity, Lecturers in Bengal Engineering College25. Regional Co- operation on Water Resource Development: Problems & Projects- Mr Kamal Raj Dhungel, Consultant, IIDS, Nepal26. The Problem of Water Supply in Uzbekistan- Dr. Irina Levchuk, Central Asian Research Hydrometeorological Insititute, Tashkent Uzbekistan27. Strategies for Cost Effective Safe Drinking Water in Rural Areas of Sub Himalayan Doars and Terai Region of West Bengal- Mr Asok Kumar Som, EE, Mr B.Majumdar,EE, Mr N.S.Chauhan, Lecturer & Mr Dhananjay Ray, Project Coordinater, CDHI, Pnadapara28. India’s Water Bowl- Major S.Dhawan (Retd.)29. Navigation & Inland waterways transport- Mr K.C.Reddy, Chairman, Tech. Advisory Committee, Govt. of Karnataka30. A Case Study of Environment & Social Aspects due to implementation of 86 MW Malana HE Project- Mr V.P.S.Chauhan, Addl. Vice President, Malana Power Company Ltd.,31. Ground Water Management of Kondegavhan Watershed : A Case Study of gonda Tehsil of Ahmednagar District- Prof. P.D. Sabale, Deptt of Engineering Geology, DVVP College of Engineering, Vilad Ghat, Ahmednagar32. Water Quality Studies of Water Resources in A.P. State- Y.Babu Rao, Joint Director, Dr. S.Ramakrishnaiah, Asst. Research Officer, A.P. Engineering Research Laboratories, Hyderabad33. Addressing Sedimentation Objectives by Systematic Watershed Management Approach- Dr. R. P. Rudra, W.T. Dickinson, Mr P.K. Goel, Mr N. Gupta, Mr G. Wall, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada34. Storage Capacity Evaluation and Sedimentation Study of Manjara Reservoir by Satellite Remote Sensing Technique- Mr V.N. Pendse, Director General, Mr A.M. Ambadekar, Superintending Engineer & Joint Director, Mr A.M. Deshmukh, Scientific Research Officer, Mr S.R Vaijapurkar, Assistant Research Officer, Mr S.K.Kalvit, Assistant Engineer II35. A Concept to Prevent Pollution in the Big Drains & the River Yamuna in Delhi, India- Er C.P.JAIN, SE, MCD36. Restructuring of Power System, Privatization of Transmission & Distribution System- Mr P.K.Kukde, ED, Tata Power Co. Ltd37. Innovative Method for Energy Saving in Power Supply Using Series Parallel Resonant Converter- Ms.Y.SUKHI, Assistant Professor, R.M.K. Engg. College, Kavaraipettai, TN,Ms.Y. JEYASHREE, Senior Lecturer, Sathyabama Engg. College, Mahabalipuram Road, Mr Bhagawan Sriram, EEE Department, Tagore Engg. College, Vandallur & Mr S. Devegowda, Prof. / EEE Department, Sathyabama Engg, College38. Optimization of Power System in Large Interconnected System- Er. B.K.Behera, Er. U.C. Patnaik & Er. Narayana Misra- GRIDCO Ltd39. Water Resources Development in Specially Developing Countries,Large & Small Dams- Mr Francois Lemperiere, Chairman, Hydrocoop (Hydro- Cooperation)40. Rehabilitation & Resettlement Policy- A Gender sensitive and Good Governance Approach- Mr Rajeev Parmar & Mr Kurian Thomas- MCR HRD IAP- Hyderabad41. Field Study of Reverse Osmosis Process in Wastewater Treatment- Mr Mritunjay Chaubey, Pentair Water India, Goa42. Culture, Development and Water: A Cultural Model for Water Management- Dr Amitabh Pandey, Faculty of Anthropology, Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal43. Participatory Approach On Funding Rural Community- Based Water Projects in Nepal- Mr Rabindra Prasad Osti, Doctoral Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan44. Impact Assessment and control of water quality in Municipal water distribution system or town distribution system with reference to the incidence of preventable disease diarrhea- Dr. Chandrawati Jee, Professor in Charge, Dept. of Bio Technology, A.N.College, Patna45. Water Management System for Arid & Semi- Arid Populated Regions- A GIS Approach- Mr Kathuria P., Mr Kalyanraman, Mr Gupta R. Associate Prof., Civil Engg. Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, Mr Singh D

_________Volume II: This is a supplementary Book containing the papers not included in the earlier Book._________Papers1. Irrigation Development: A Boon for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Madhya Pradesh- Mr. R. S. Singh, Mr V. V. Singh , Mr Pradeep & Mr.vastava, Senior Scientist, Head and Research Associate, Agricultural Mechanization Division, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering,, Bhopal2. Dams: Cornucopia or Disaster? Mr Asit K Biswas, Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico3. Israeli advanced water technologies- sharing TAHAL experience with India- Mr Eli Barak, Director- Marketing, Asia Operations & Mr Y P Chawla, Marketing Director- India Operations, Tahal Consulting Engineers Limited4. Culture, Development And Water: A Cultural Model For Water Management- Dr Amitabh Pandey, Faculty Of Anthropology, Indian Institute Of Forest Management, Bhopal5. Safe Drinking Water- Dr A. Venmathi, Reader in Resource Management, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore6. Synthetic Waterproofing Geomembranes: the most Effective way for water storage and cost saving- Mr.Alberto M. Scuero, Dr. Eng, Technical Director, CAPRI TECH S.A, Corso San Gottardo 86, CH 6830 CHIASSO, Switzerland7. The Debatable Credibility of Anti Dam NGOs- Prof. Raymond Lafitte, Former President, International Hydro Power Association & Vice President, ICOLD8. Sedimentation Management in Hydro Reservoirs- Mr. Sultan Alam, Consultant, Hydropower, River Engineering, Reservoir Sedimentation & Coastal Restoration, France

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a selection of testimonies for the humanity of water around London that my network friends and I bore witness to during 2004 - connect with me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want up-to-date details of where any of this interventions is now heading


2004, December at Brazilian Embassy London
Cultivating Good Water
By Nelton Miguel Friedrich
Coordinating Director of ITAIPU Binacional - World's Largest Dam & Programme of 100 Connecting Ecology in Community Experiments
Slide presentations available

2004,October 15:Simpol Cafe:
A chance to discuss with Brazilian Franklin Frederick the following sorts of topics on the humanitarian crisis of Water: either at the collaboration café at 1.00pm Tuesday Oct 19 at public café of the Friend’s House opposite Euston Station,London- or if you can’t attend but would like an email intro to Franklin, please tell me

1 Anita Roddick’s New Book - Troubled Water
The Global Water Crisis. The next war will be over water!
Water is more fundamental than any other substance on Earth: you can live three weeks without food, but without water you'll be dead in three days. www.anitaroddick.com

2 The many meetings on water that Franklin spoke at during the European Social Forum in London over the weekend, and his next plans fro the World Social Forum in Brazil in January

3 How in Brazil , the church and Franklin’s movement- soon to be The International Free Water Academy - is the voice representing people’s rights to water versus on the other side multinationals, and increasingly the government and commercial mass media.
The Church in Brazil embarks on its 40th “Fraternity Campaign which was presented in Brasilia at the head quarters of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference CNBB. The theme of the campaign this year is “Fraternity and Water”, and the slogan is “Water Source of Life”.
The aim of the 2004 campaign is “to increase awareness of the value of water, source of life, a need of all living beings and a right of every human person” in order to encourage people to work to guarantee present and future generations the right to waterFather Daniele Lagni, National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Brazil, said that the theme chosen for this year’s campaign fits well with a missionary life lived as proclamation of the good news of Jesus who wishes to be “life in abundance” for every man, woman and child. The slogan “Water, Source of Life” is therefore a call to fight to defend life


4 Why so many of London’s largest campaign networks including www.wdm.org.uk, www.bethechange.org.uk and www.simpol.org.uk see Water as the humanitarian issue connecting all others

5 What seems to be the extreme corporate irresponsibility of global brands like Coca-Cola and Nestle on Water. Without major changes in the reality of their goodwill, I don’t either will be in the top 10 brand ratings in 5 years time – how do you feel?