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World Water Forum Ministerial Declaration Fails to Respond to Water, Sanitation Crises
The Ministerial Declaration issued at the ongoing World Water Forum has failed to rise up to the challenges posed by the global water crisis, says Green Cross International President Alexander Likhotal.
"Contrary to the slogan of the conference, Time for Solutions, the Ministerial Declaration fell short exactly on solutions and is devoid of any serious, concrete plan to cope with the global water crisis," says Dr. Likhotal. "It demonstrates that the international community needs a more effective system to manage the water challenge, not triennial talkfests that achieve very little, if anything at all."
The Forum’s official opening by French Prime Minister François Fillon, who focused on the need to change the economic system in order to resolve the water crisis, raised the expectations of all participants.
"However, this declaration, being an exercise of consensus, resulted in a weak and watered down document," Dr. Likhotal said. "This declaration should have been much more ambitious and offer concrete, already recognized solutions to address the global water crisis, which includes almost 800 million people living without access to safe drinking water and 2.5 billion lacking appropriate sanitation."
"This declaration only serves to state the problems and challenges, but provides no roadmap or tools to help people living in water scarcity to attain their most basic of human rights, that being access to water," Dr. Likhotal says. "It offers only a weak call to ‘accelerate and intensify’."
Casella Measurement (UK), a global manufacturer of industrial hygiene, occupational health and environmental monitoring equipment, has announced the appointment of Mark Dilks as Marketing Manager.
In line with the company’s ambitious growth strategy, Mark will be responsible for shaping the marketing and communications programme to help further strengthen Casella brand recognition globally, in both existing and emerging markets.
Prior to joining Bedford-based Casella, Mark spent four years as Group Marketing Manager and Lead Team member at Goodyear Dunlop where he played an integral part in the financial turnaround of the business. Mark also worked for ExxonMobil Lubricants, Europe, Africa & Middle East in a variety of senior marketing related positions.
Earlier in his career, Mark was a founder member of the team that lead to the separation of the Audi brand from the Volkswagen organisation.
Paul Finnie, VP & GM at IDEAL Europe comments: “Mark brings high level strategic marketing experience, excellent team leadership skills and a proven track record for managing large brand budgets and transforming businesses. This makes him a valuable addition to Casella and we wish him every success in his new role.”
Mark says: “Having enjoyed many years in senior marketing roles, I jumped at the chance to take this role at Casella, which is a brand new position. With a great team of people, expanding customer base and carefully engineered range of products, the business is ideally placed to increase its share of the market in the next few years.”
He concludes: “It is an exciting time and I am looking forward to helping Casella achieve further upward growth.”
Reader Reply Card No. 9 New Separation Science R&D Facility
LECO Corporation (USA) has opened the newest addition to its corporate headquarters campus in St. Joseph, Michigan—the Elizabeth S. Warren Technical Centre.
Named in honor of LECO Executive Vice President and Treasurer Elizabeth S. Warren, this 28,000 square- foot facility is dedicated to the research and development of innovative instrumentation and equipment for LECO’s separation science product line. These instruments are used in a variety of applications, including pharmaceuticals, metabolomics, food, flavor, fragrance, environmental, and petrochemical. Having one facility exclusively devoted to this purpose will enable LECO to remain competitive in this field.
The building includes laboratory spaces, office areas, and an auditorium for presentations and educational opportunities. The new facility houses 32 LECO employees, including scientists, engineers, technicians, and
clerical, with space available to accommodate additional team members as needed. In addition, the new facility and LECO’s main R&D facility next door share several engineering and technical groups. Engineers from these groups split their time between the two buildings, and have ample workspace set-up in both areas.
The addition of the new building also creates more room in the adjacent Carl E. Schultz Technical Center for Research and Development. By moving Separation Science R&D to its own building, the existing technical center now has more space to focus on the continued development of products for LECO’s inorganic, organic, and metallographic product lines. The added space in both buildings will enable a more efficient engineering process from start to finish, in addition to allowing for proper pre-production testing.
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"The outcome of this event, which has attracted thousands of people to Marseille at great financial and environmental costs, confirms what Mikhail Gorbachev said at the opening session that the ‘World Water Forum has so far failed to become a driving force for breakthrough solutions’."
"With such a declaration, there are good chances that World Water Forum 6 goes down in history – along with its predecessors – as proving to be inadequate and unable to respond to the global water and sanitation crises," Dr. Likhotal said.
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Waters Corporation (USA) was awarded the 2012 Pittcon Editors Gold Award for the new Waters ACQUITY UPC2 System as the best new product at the 2012 Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy.
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