Objective

To investigate the impact of climate change, pollution, population growth, a proposed superhighway, and other critical factors on India's holiest river, the Ganges. In a larger sense, to explore the confluence of water and religion, the sacred and the profane.

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To illuminate the impact of competing interests; including wildlife, diamond mines, tourism, cattle industry, and nearby villages on the miraculous freshwater refuge the Okavango wetland provides. From a global perspective, to gain insight into how various parties, both human and animal, individual and industrial, can balance their needs for water in a world where this resource is rapidly shrinking.

Objective

To contribute to the global dialogue on water issues at the 5th World Water Forum, the largest international event in the field of water. The Forum is held every three years by the World Water Council, in collaboration with the government of the host country, to bring together decision-makers from around the world to raise the importance of water on the political agenda, support work towards the solution of international water issues in the 21st century, formulate concrete proposals and bring their importance to the world's attention, and generate political commitment.

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To investigate the role that fresh water access has played in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in the West Bank. To illuminate ways in which water scarcity can lead to violence and warfare, but it can also lead to peace through diplomacy and cooperation.

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To explore the driest climate in the world, and the issues behind the city's fight to remain in existence despite a dwindling natural supply of water. Sitting on the edge of a vast desert yet an island of greenery in the form of European style parks and gardens, Perth uses more water than any other city in Australia. Scientist Tim Flannery once predicted that Petth in Western Australia could become the world's first ghost metropolis.

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To examine leading scientists assertions that mismanagement of water resources doomed the ancient city of Angkor and to extrapolate how, in the near future, a similar fate might meet modern mega-cities. To trace our story back up the Ganges to the Himalayas, where the melting of glaciers (in addition to damming and overuse) is also impacting another major river in Asia: the Mekong.

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To explore the destructive effects of toxic agricultural chemicals and nutrient pollution on water. On a larger scale, to highlight the difficult choice faced by people struggling with an impossible choice in the US and around the world between making ends meet in the short-term and doing what's best for the environment and their own long term well being.

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To return to the pristine Shab Rumi reef where Jacques-Yves Cousteau created the Precontinent 2 project, an underwater living experiment, nearly half a century ago. To construct an ecosystem assessment of how the reef has changed over the past 60 years since Precontinent 2 and to expose the fragile, critical state of coral reefs across the globe.