Strategic Planning

Islamabad(SANA)Electricity trading with Pakistan is part of a larger plan of a South Asian transmission link, which will help countries in the sub-continent harness energy potential of the region.
India plans to sell 500 megawatts (MW) of electricity to Pakistan, which will help the country reduce its chronic power shortage, according to Calcutta-based newspaper The Telegraph.

Officials of the two countries are scheduled to meet next month to finalise the issues of tariff and grid connectivity.

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http://www.sananews.net/english/2011/11/south-asian-power-transmission-link-in-the-works/

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2011

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China

AFRICA: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets “two centuries away”

Submitted by ward on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 12:05pm

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LONDON, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, according to NGO WaterAid, which calls on national leaders to commit 3.5 percent of their annual budget to the sector.

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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=94241

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Global

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2011

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After 25 Years, Sustainability Is a Growing Science That's Here to Stay

Submitted by ward on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 11:58am

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Sustainability has not only become a science in the past 25 years, but it is one that continues to be fast-growing with widespread international collaboration, broad disciplinary composition and wide geographic distribution, according to new research from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Indiana University.