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Water is vital for the life and health of people and ecosystems and a basic requirement for the development of countries, but many people lack access to adequate and safe water to meet their most basic needs. Water resources and their related ecosystems are now under threat from pollution, unsustainable use, climate change and many other forces. The World Water Forum series has been likened to a series of stepping stones towards the solution of the world's pressing water problems. Each step constitutes a new phase. The 3rd World Water Forum takes up the World Water Vision created at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague in 2000, and sets out to see that vision realized in concrete actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Migration and the global media have mixed up all the old cultures into a hybrid brew. How will aging and shrinking societies that need immigrants to survive cope with this new culture? What political philosophy fits this new reality? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comments on the emergence of hybrid cultures, a fact of life caused by the increased migration of people from poor countries to satisfy the labor requirements of the advanced world's shrinking and aging population. The global penetration of the mass media also plays a role in the assignment of value to migration and the emergence of hybrid cultures.