Water is essential to people's lives and social economy and environmental development. Nonetheless, a huge number of people are still without access to safe drinking water in Asian cities. And pollutions of rivers and underground-waters are becoming more serious that it causes various problems such as health hazards and environmental issues.
In this conference, journalists made presentations about the current status and issues of water in their cities and discussed how we can solve such serious water problems.
- Organized by:
- UN-Habitat Fukuoka Office
- Supported by:
- The Nishinippon Newspaper
Fukuoka Prefecture
Fukuoka City
Participants
- Moderator:
- NAKAGAWA Shigeru (The Nishinippon Newspaper, Special Editorial Writer)
- Panelists (Journalists from respectable newspaper in Asia):
- 1. Arun KATIYAR (independent journalist, media consultant, & author, former Bombay Bureau Chief of India Today)
2. Anuradha KODAGODA (Reporter, Sunday Observer)
3. Famega Syavira PUTRI (Editor, Yahoo Indonesia)
4. NGUYEN HAM Bao Truc (Reporter, Saigon Giai Phong Investment Finance Newspaper)
5. Cynthia Delgado BALANA (Senior Reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer)
6. GAO Ying (Commentator, Global Times)
7. ABE Testuya (Reporter, The Nishinippon Newspaper)
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