Rapid increases in water use and degradation of water quality are putting extreme pressures on this vital resource. This set of fourteen briefs recommends a number of strategies for dealing with the associated
challenges.

Some 400 representatives of security forces, state bodies and civil society in Gabu, eastern Guinea-Bissau, have recommended the formation of a commission to monitor the observance of human rights in the area.

In the last decade, there has been an explosion of fossil finds of our earliest human ancestors - revealing characteristics that might force a re-interpretation of our earliest ancestry.

The Water service of the Food and Agriculture Organization has developed and compiled a package of training material for the development and implementation of Participatory Training & Extension Programme in Farmers' Water Management. It is in particular relevant to assist communal water users' groups in assuming O&M responsibilities and to give guidance to farmers in adopting efficient water control technologies.