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Investment in the infrastructure of India's water supply is desperately needed due to the low standard of water that is supplied to the city. In Mumbai drinking water is a luxury.

Grameen Shakti has sold and installed over 65,000 solar home-systems (SHS) in rural Bangladesh, and brought major benefits to its users. Nearly 70% of households in Bangladesh are not connected to the electricity grid and depend on kerosene for lighting. This includes most rural areas and extends as far as the fringes of Dhaka. There are plans to extend the grid, but there is little prospect of substantial change in the foreseeable future.

What benefits the farmers, could threaten the livelihood of many needy people in developing nations throughout Africa and Asia.

Commonwealth Leaders: Legally Binding Agreement in Copenhagen is Essential.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the special session on climate change at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago has been, "very constructive and very useful."