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Fishermen and Sahelian goats by the Niger River, in Segou, Mali (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann).
World Water Week in Stockholm is organized annually by the Stockholm International Water Institute and brings together experts from around the world to discuss pertinent issues around water and development.
At the start of this year’s World Water Week, taking place from 28 August to 2 September 2016, the University of Gothenburg, the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation convened a seminar on antimicrobial resistance and linkages between humans, livestock and water in peri-urban areas.
Among the speakers at the seminar was Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist and food safety expert at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Her presentation was based on a report published in July 2016 by the Committee on World Food Security High-Level Panel…
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Mohammed Bello Tukur 
The importance of water to livestock/poultry can not be over emphasized. Livestock and poultry consumes 8- 10 percent of the world’s water and contributes the same to global warming/climate change/methane emissions yet no body thinks that livestock deserves a role in water management, a commodity so vital to digestion and nutrition of animals. This is why there is a belief that livestock/poultry are best fit for dirty, filthy and impure water after human beings have had the best part of water. Livestock/poultry deserves clean and portable water devoid of pests, diseases and environmental pollution. S.Y. APIIGA-ANIMAL SCIENTIST-GHANA.