Kyoto (Fides Service) - The third World Water Forum closed with a declaration signed by more than a hundred countries. The declaration calls for action to solve a dramatic water emergency which threatens the very survival of humanity on a planetary scale. The Forum examined and approved 400 programmes for concrete intervention, 40 of which presented by Italy. Kyoto Forum seems to have created among the participants (divided on certain key issues including privatisation of water resources, doubling public investments and the inclusion among basic human rights of the right to water) awareness of the duty to take action. See article on the Forum taken from the Osservatore Romano (Italian) at www.fides.org SL (Fides Service 28/3/2003 EM lines 12 Words: 123