Ethnic minorities and poor communities in the U.S. are unequally exposed to the risk of levee failure under climate change, warns a new UN assessment. Published by UNU-INWEH, 5 September...
Category: Press Release
3 out of 4 people currently live in water-insecure countries. More people die from a lack of safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services than water-related disasters, reveals the...
Needed to provide safe water to roughly 2 billion people without it: an annual investment less than half the US$ 270 billion now spent each year on bottled water ...
Original storage capacity lost to sediment by 2050: 1.65 trillion cubic meters, roughly equal to the combined annual water use of India, China, Indonesia, France and Canada... Losses undermine water...
Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs Originally published by UNU-INWEH, 26 May 2022. UN and partner water experts say it's time to increase the tapping of...
1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10 indicators Originally published by Terry Collins & Associates, AAAS and EurekAlert, 21, March 2021. Photo Credit : Amors Photos|...
Originally published by Terry Collins & Associates, Alpha Galileo, 30 November 2021. Photo Credit : EB Adventure Photography | Shutterstock Honoured with the “Best of What's New Award,” Security Category...
Developed by UN University with Google and other partners, free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help plan urban and agricultural development, effective flood defences, disaster readiness, identify supply chain...
Originally published by Utrecht University A new study by scientists at Utrecht University and the United Nations University concludes that about half of global wastewater is treated, rather than the...
By 2050, most of humanity will live downstream of large dams built in the 20th century Increasingly expensive to maintain, experts foresee a trend to decommissioning dams By 2050,...