Biting the fly
Eradicating one of Africa's most pernicious insect pests

Saving a mother's life
Radiotherapy offers new hope for women of child rearing age suffering cervical cancer in developing countries

Counting every drop
Isotope hydrology permits better management of precious water supplies and provides a view of climate change through a prism to the past

Finding safe waters below
IAEA Technical Cooperation project supports search for safe groundwater, as Bangladesh battles arsenic contamination and Ethiopia moves to tap vast river basins
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"[T]he more than 1 billion people who lack access to safe drinking water live overwhelmingly in developing countries. It is for their sake that we must stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources. And it is for the sake of the poor and hungry that we need a 'Blue Revolution' in agriculture, focused on increasing productivity per unit of water, or 'more crop per drop'."
--Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General

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