The leftist leader has now issued the globe's largest oil company, Exxon Mobil, with an end-of-year ultimatum to enter a joint venture with the state.
It's a common issue around the globe: many water utilities lack insight into their aging, leaking, inefficient infrastructure, and are employing unimaginative stopgaps or privatizing their operations.
And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe - the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.
In this case, that prize is the Man Booker, and the novels in question come from all parts of the globe, issue forth from the pens of writers both hugely celebrated and entirely unknown and range from the enigmatically spare to the tub-thumpingly expansive.
Tania Rashid went there to see just how bad the problem is, and why water is such a pressing issue around the globe.
After thanking everyone in that ponderous, repellently modest way famous people do when they win, he used his speech to talk about climate change, which resulted in serious engagement with the issue across the globe.
Jeff Skoll is exemplary with his founding of the Skoll Foundation, which nurtures proven social entrepreneurial initiatives of excellence representing every issue across the globe, from creating new ways to access clean water, to sustainable fishing and farming methods, to sex trafficking, slave trading, FGM, child marriage, etc.
In view of the increasing population, escalating prices, and shrinking reserves of oil and coal, adverse health effects of cooking energy sources is the current burning issue of the globe.
The governments need to get serious about the cyberbullying issues across the globe.
Condemnations were issued around the globe, including by the United States, Russia and Kofi Annan, the primary architect of the cease-fire.
For instance, one of the biggest issues facing the globe and impacting on Britain today is the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean.
