National and international water policy must adapt to ongoing, accelerated changes in the global water cycle and respond to them quickly and comprehensively. This is the key message of a report “Water in a heated World”,…
A new report highlights growing shortfalls and stress in global water resources. The world is well off track from meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and sanitation.
Without water, there can be no life. However, in 2024, 2.2 billion people live without clean drinking water and 3.5 billion people without safe sanitation. The Swiss Development Cooperation is therefore making a special…
In half the world’s countries, one or more types of freshwater ecosystems are degraded. Pollution, dams, land conversion, over-abstraction and climate change contribute to degradation.
Experts at World Water Week 2024 discussed how to improve water cooperation and tackle global water challenges, from PFAS pollution solutions to innovative water tech.
The International Water Management Institute’s (IWMI) Digital Innovations for a Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) project is set to enter its second phase. The new grant will enable expanded scope and collaboration and make…
This report highlights that tensions over water are exacerbating conflicts worldwide. To preserve peace, states must boost international cooperation and transboundary agreements.
Since 2019, Lebanon has been experiencing a severe economic crisis while simultaneously hosting approximately 1.5 million refugees from Syria. Access to clean drinking water for all is not guaranteed, exacerbating…
Climate change has been described as the urgent catalyst for collaboration over water security in three key river basins in Asia – the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra – by experts. They recommend that local…
Globally water is becoming scarcer. Demand is increasing. Cross-border cooperation of river basins, be it in Africa or Asia, are elementary to avoid conflicts. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit…
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