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Media Activities

•	ADB’s Water Awareness Program, implemented in 2002-2005, helped create an environment supportive of effective water policies in the Asia-Pacific region.
•	12 national and 2 regional Media Workshops held from 2003 to 2006 promoted water issues among journalists and formed an informal water media network
•	Asia Water Wire, an online resource of water stories, features articles from ADB's media network that help fill the water information gap. Visit the website.
•	Selected high-caliber journalists participated in significant water forums, with ADB support.
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ADB's media activities are designed to increase the public's awareness and understanding of water issues. The activities took on a two-pronged strategy

to directly promote awareness among water stakeholders and the general public, which covers a broad range of target audiences-from water experts to decision makers, from communities to youth
to improve the quality of media coverage on water issues, which targets journalists and other media actors

	Media Workshops on Water Issues Know more about how ADB’s media workshops help media/journalists to better understand water issues.
	Asia Water Wire Discover an online news resource on water issues that ADB helped establish. Visit www.asiawaterwire.net.
	Journalist Attendance at Water Forums ADB arranged for selected journalists to participate in significant water forums and conferences in the region.

Ellen Pascua
Water Fund Manager
Email: epascua@adb.org