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Canadian water skier wins world championship
Calgary :: Canada | 3 months ago
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ET The Canadian Press Canada's Whitney McClintock won her first senior world championship gold medal in tricks. (Silvia Izquierdo/Associated Press file) Whitney McClintock of Cambridge, Ont., won the gold medal in tricks Saturday at the women's world...
Canadian through to trick final at worlds
Calgary :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility Canadian Whitney McClintock earned a top-three seed in the women's trick final to keep her individual and team hopes alive at the World Water Ski Championship at Predator Bay on Wednesday. "I am definitely really happy. You always have nerves before you...
Tags: Whitney McClintock, world water, skiing championship, trick final, Breanne Wagner, water skiing, Cambridge
Water-ski worlds get off to a damp start
Calgary :: Canada | 4 months ago
Credibility Staying on your feet gave no guarantee of remaining dry during a rainy first day of competition at the World Water Ski Championships at Predator Bay, south of Calgary, on Tuesday. Several events were delayed and the first two series of men's jumping were...
Tags: world water, skiing championships, water skiing, skiing world
About.com: World Water Week 2009
Khānpur :: Pakistan | 8 months ago
Credibility As part of The Tap Project , hundreds of New York's top restaurants will ask guests to donate $1 for the tap water that they typically sip for free...Your $1 donation can provide clean drinking water for a child for forty days. See the full list of NYC...
Tags: drinking water, clean drinking, world water, tap project, water week, U.S
AllAfrica.com: Schools Invited to Submit Entries for Poetry Competition
Harare :: Zimbabwe | 8 months ago
Credibility World Water Day, on the other hand, was designated for March 22 by the United Nations General Assembly in 1992 to draw attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water. It was with the aim of using art as a tool for climatic change that the...
Tags: world water, climate change, climate, change, environment
DEVEOPMENT: Troubled Waters Hard to Bridge Over
İstanbul :: Turkey | 8 months ago
Credibility The fifth World Water Forum (WWF) held in Istanbul ended Sunday with wide- ranging differences among governments and groups with an interest in water. The forum adopted a declaration calling for "new and adequate resources" for the water sector. It also...
Tags: Istanbul, world water, water forum
Water not recognized as human right in forum statement
Toronto :: Canada | 8 months ago
Credibility A week-long international conference ended Sunday in Istanbul with a statement that recognizes access to safe drinking water as a "basic human need," but not a "human right," as some delegates had proposed. The statement, coinciding with the United Nations'...
Tags: world water, water forum, safe drinking, Istanbul, drinking water
World Water Day, 22 March 2009
Water constitutes about three fourths of the earth’s surface, but only less than one percent of it can be used by its inhabitants. Most of it is salt water oceans (about 97%) and 2% of it is contained in glaciers. With every country seeking to satisfy...
Tags: World Water, India
UNICEF: World Water Day 2009
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility March 2009 World Water Day 2009 calls for collective action to tackle the issue of access to safe drinking water and water sharing...Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Access to clean water and sanitation is fundamental to every aspect of a child's...
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Al Baloushi wins in style
Abu Dhabi :: United Arab Emirates | 8 months ago
Credibility Riding Carallio, Yousuf staved off a strong challenge from Dutch rider Harmke Margrete Westervelt to register his third win of the season and his 19th. The Al Reef rider was third after the first stage and then led over the next three stages. Going into...
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