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Article: World Bank Cries Out for a Clean Mideast
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- Israel Faxx
- Article date:
- December 6, 1994
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By Laurie Kassman (Cairo)
The World Bank has told a meeting of Arab League environment ministers it is ready to double its lending to $1 billion a year for environmental projects aimed at dealing with urgent issues like water scarcity and industrial pollution. World Bank Vice President for the Middle East Caio Koch-Weser presented the World Bank report.
Koch-Weser sounds the environmental alarm for the Middle East and North Africa and warns that urgent action must be taken now before it is too late. "We are at the point of crisis in this region. When you have one in every four people in the Arab World lacking access to safe water -- 60 million people, when ...