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World Water Week programme consists of more than 200 sessions of different formats and covering a range of subjects.During the convenor sessions, the most relevant topics on this year’s theme “Water, ecosystems and human development” will be discussed.

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Agriculture. The largest cultural use is agriculture—using approximately 69% of the available water supply in Arizona. In the past, this percentage was as high as 90%.

What are they? Fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, Triops, and water flea are tiny crustaceans, and classified in the group of Branchiopoda. They live in the water ponds of the mountains, the prairies, the wetlands, the deserts, and in every fresh water of dry lakes and vernal pools that are isolated from the river and have no fish.

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Drought, and an imbalance between water demand and supply, continues to plague the Southwest. Arizona’s main source of water, the Colorado River, on which 2 million jobs in the state and over $100 billion in labor income are dependent annually, is threatened.

Central Arizona Project (CAP) is Arizona’s single largest resource for renewable water supplies. CAP is designed to bring about 1.5 million acre-feet of water from the Colorado River to Central and Southern Arizona every year.

We’ve evolved! Two very distinguished departments at the University of Arizona have dissolved their disciplinary boundaries to develop new and bold strategies to characterize, monitor, and model the hydrosphere.

Collaboration in Namibia IALC.World and Desert Research Foundation of Namibia team up to address environmental and gender-based risk

Sustainability and Water August 12, 2010 Water tables all over the world are falling, as “world water demand has tripled over the last” 50 years.