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US Government Releases First Global Water Strategy

December 4, 2017

December: By Brent Walton, Circle of Blue:

To coordinate its response to floods, droughts and disease and other water challenges whose political and economic challenges leap borders the Trump Administration submitted the Federal government’s first global water strategy.

Ordered by Congress, the strategy lays out four goals; to increases access to safe drinking water and sanitation, improve water management, protect watersheds from pollution, and prevent conflicts over river, lakes, aquifers that cross political boundaries.

“Safe water and sanitization are fundamental to solving challenges to human health, economic development and peace and security,” the 70 page report states.

Here is the link to the report…

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