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14 HolisticTable of contentsThinking: Making the Knowledge Base Everyone’sBusiness 349Box 14.1: Pointers from the 1992 Earth Summit 349Ensuring theKnowledge Base:A CollectiveResponsibilityEducation: The Base of the Knowledge Pyramid 349Basic education <strong>for</strong> all 350Figure 14.1: Gross enrolment ratio in primary education 350Figure 14.2: Estimated illiteracy rates – totals <strong>for</strong> males and femalesaged 15 years and older 351Education <strong>for</strong> sustainable development 351Knowledge from the bottom up 352Box 14.2: Guinea-Bissau – with training, women ‘man’ the pumps 351Traditional local knowledge 353Box 14.3: The bushmen’s loss is everyone’s loss 354Community mobilization 353Box 14.4: Power to society – water laws in Brazil and Sri Lanka 354Box 14.5: CapNet – the virtues of networking 355The Challenges 355Shifts in the water industry 355Overcoming poor data availability 356Table 14.1: Increases and decreases in the number of hydrologicalobserving stations in the world between 1974 and 1997 356Box 14.6: New tools <strong>for</strong> the Mekong 357Sharing and harmonizing knowledge 357By: UNESCO (United NationsEducational, Scientific and CulturalOrganization)/WMO (WorldMeteorological Organization)Collaborating agencies: UNDESA(United Nations Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs)/IAEA (International Atomic EnergyAgency)/World Bank/UNEP (UnitedNations Environment Programme)/UNU (United Nations University)Box 14.7: Senegal River basin – in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong> sustainable management 358Box 14.8: Joint monitoring on Lake Peipsi 358Meeting research and development needs: the production and use ofscientific knowledge 359Figure 14.3: Number of scientists and engineers per 100,000inhabitants, GDP per capita (PPP in US$), Human Development Indexvalue and R&D expenditure 359

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