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BATTLE was joined for the future of the world’s water supplies at the 3rd World Water Forum in Kyoto this week as public health and water experts reacted angrily to calls from the conference president to double the number of large dams around the world.

The UN has asked the politicians, economists, scientists and industry leaders who make up the forum to find ways to realise its ambitious plan to bring clean drinking water and sanitation to more than a billion more people over the coming decade.

Mahmoud Abu-Zeid, the Egyptian water minister and president of the World Water Council…

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