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		<title>INDONESIA: Court annuls Water Resources Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia's constitutional court has annulled the 2004 Water Resources Law, paving the way for the state to take control of water resources from the private sector. ]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA: Residents consider legal action after Cyclone Marcia flood release</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Residents in central Queensland are said to be considering legal action over an automatic water release from the Callide dam that flooded nearby buildings.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Research claims link between fluoridation and hypothyroidism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[New research from the University of Kent claims that fluoride in drinking water is linked to higher rates of hypothyroidism  an underactive thyroid  which is associated with depression and weight gain.]]></description>
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		<title>SOUTH AFRICA: AWF grant to improve school sanitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The African Water Facility has announced an 1.2 million Euro ($1.4 million) grant to help improve school sanitation in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.]]></description>
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		<title>UAE: UN FAO regional head warns of groundwater crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The regional head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Ad Spijkers, has warned that groundwater supplies in the UAE, which the country relies on as its main conventional resource, could run out by 2030 because of agricultural demand.]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA: Experts warn of water risks from coal seam gas proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The federal government's Independent Expert Scientific Committee (IESC) report on proposals for a massive expansion in coal seam gas extraction in Queensland has warned that there is 'considerable scientific uncertainty about impacts on surface water and groundwater and associated ecosystems'. ]]></description>
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		<title>US: Oil train derailment sparks potable water fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Crude oil released from the oil train derailment and massive explosion in southern West Virginia was initially feared to be polluting a river that supplies potable water, though subsequent tests have proved clear so far.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Ofwat changes course on market delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Ofwat, the economic regulator for water and wastewater services in England and Wales, has written to water company chief execs and managing directors with an update on non-household retail market opening that reveals it is no longer looking to Scotland's WICS as a delivery partner, leaving Open Water Markets Ltd (OWML) responsible for driving the Market Architecture Plan (MAP3) to successful delivery.]]></description>
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		<title>US: EPA releases climate adjustment tool for stormwater management model</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The US EPA has announced the release of a Climate Adjustment Tool for its Stormwater Management Model  a popular online stormwater simulation model.]]></description>
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		<title>News in brief 10 February 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[News briefs from 10 February 2015.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Coal Authority chooses Severn Trent Services and JN Bentley for mine water work</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Coal Authority has made two new multi-million pound awards to protect the UK's environment from polluted water from disused coal and metal mines.]]></description>
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		<title>SOUTH AFRICA: Water loss cost hits $594 million annually</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The cost of South Africa's non-revenue water losses has hit $594 million a year and the country's President Jacob Zuma is calling for action to reverse the worrying trend. ]]></description>
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		<title>US: Experts warn US will face megadrought by end of century</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists at Columbia University have warned that by the end of the century the western US is going to face megadroughts of up to 40 years in duration.]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA: New South Wales puts extra funding into groundwater monitoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales government has announced that an extra AUD$23 million ($17.9 million) will be spent on water mapping and monitoring in the state to ensure major mining projects do not affect groundwater.]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBAL: UN WFP launches new disaster alert system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a new disaster alert system that it believes could potentially dramatically speed up its response in the aftermath of an emergency.]]></description>
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		<title>ASIA-PACIFIC: CRED report shows drop in deaths due to natural disasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has issued a report that shows the Asia-Pacific region lost far fewer lives in natural disasters in 2014. ]]></description>
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		<title>AFRICA: UNEP highlights deteriorating water quality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[South Africa was one of those regions singled out by the United Nations Environmental Programme as experiencing deterioration of water quality, leading to a reduction of biodiversity in rivers, lakes and wetlands.]]></description>
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		<title>KENYA: WSSCC awards Kenya seed funding for WASH project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenya has been awarded a S450 million ($5 million) contract to undertake a five year programme aimed at ending open defecation among 1.92 million people.]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA: New South Wales announces water transfer pipeline projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales government has announced an AUD$37 million (US$28.9 million) spend on two major pipeline projects to secure the region's water supplies. ]]></description>
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		<title>LESOTHO: Tender launched for dam project geotechnical investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Lesotho has issued a request for proposals for a geotechnical investigation for the Polihali concrete-faced rockfill dam to be constructed on the Senqu river under the $1.3 billion phase two of the bi-national Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).]]></description>
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