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"At the end of the day, neither missiles and motorcades, nor cars and computers, can confer prestige on nations without taps and toilets." |
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"Ancient Chinese civilization emphasized harmony between people and nature. But with society’s progress, this idea has been set aside as people started to think that they can conquer nature. But they ignored the negative impact of human activity on nature. Now, I feel that we have come full circle, and realized that the ancient Chinese thinking was right. This realization was brought about by very important lessons on water management." |
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"Over the past 8 years, Manila Water has already served about 820,000 people in 517 low income communities through our Tubig para sa Barangay (TPSB) program. We will aggressively pursue our TPSB projects for the medium term by providing properly connected water system for urban poor communities. Our target is to serve 100,000 people from poor communities every year. And this will materialize with the support of our partners in the communities we serve." |
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"SAPPROS tries to educate communities on the need to integrate DWS systems with water harvesting tanks for irrigation in order to enable them to realize and create income-generating activities. The systems will not be sustainable unless the communities raise operation and management funds for regular maintenance of the system." |
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"NWRB is not exempt from problems and challenges. But whatever achievements we have achieved in the past, we can attribute to a well written Water Code that has stood the test of time, regular meetings and active participation of the members of the apex body, and strong support from other government agencies in the sector" |
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"India is a land known for its complex lakes, tanks, and extremely intricate irrigation networks. These were created with the native intelligence of people who understood their relation to the five J's -- jan [people], jungle [forests], jameen [land], jaanwar [fauna] and jal [water]." |
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"The distinction between the management of water resources and the delivery of water services is the core of ADB's water policy. While each country needs to adopt its own policy and reform process to address water management challenges, these basic principles of water governance can be applied universally." |
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"I think access to water supply and sanitation services should be recognized as a fundamental human right, whether someone is able to pay or not. This will enable the urban poor to have guaranteed access to WSS services. The cost can be recovered through cross subsidy and/or graduated tariff." |
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"In this situation where so many countries in the region are affected, no individual country can do it on their own. And it is going to need a massive international effort to help these countries get back on their feet." |
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"The biggest challenge, I think, is keeping our momentum going. But we are very determined--- not only to do all we can for this project, but also to ensure that our frameworks, insights and experience are replicated in other parts of the country. The PRC has a lot of wetlands, and we are determined to protect and conserve each one of them." |
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