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The Big Necessity

Top 10 Recommended Books for Combating Poverty

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Poverty, Books, Economic Development, The Bottom Billion, 50 Facts That Should Change the World, Portfolios of the Poor, Bound Together, Farewell to Alms, The Big Necessity, Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World, Poverty Capital, Impact News
Jonathan Lewis

Whether a fact-filled economic history or a satiric novel, these ten books (listed alphabetically by author) about poverty, power and prosperity will provoke, inform and stimulate your thinking.

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Stockholm Water Confab Rings Alarms, Offers Hope

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden, National Geographic, Combating Desertification, Economics of Sanitation, Venice of the North, Pollutants in Water Resources, Sanitation, Canadian, World Water Week, Climate Change, Biodiversity, ITT Corporation, 2010 Stockholm Junior Water Prize, Striking WASH Communication, Earth, Maintaining Ecosystems, University of Maryland, Bbc, Rose George, Toilets, Wastewater Management, Crown Princess Victoria, Human Waste, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stockholm, Diarrhea, Water, Prof. Rita Colwell, British, Pacific Institute, The Big Necessity, Dr. Peter Gleik, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

According to freelance journalist Rose George, a child dies from diarrhea -- usually brought on by fecal-contaminated food or water -- every 15 seconds. But human waste can be used to good purpose.

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