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,...
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HAMILTON – Canada today announced a CDN$10 million extension of core funding through 2025 for the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, a research organization at the forefront of...
Launch of the UN World Water Development Report on 22 March [caption id="attachment_5425" align="alignright" width="220"] The 2020 World Water Development Report. Download here[/caption]Paris/Geneva, 22 March — Climate change will...
Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; Enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer needs; Enough water to fill Lake Victoria in seven years, Lake...
Urgent need to replace competition with co-operation in the Aral Sea Basin Unless well-funded and coordinated joint efforts are stepped up, ongoing over-withdrawals compounded by climate change will cause dangerous...
UNU-INWEH and CRREBaC (Centre de recherche en ressources en eau du bassin du Congo), University of Kinshasa. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)- co-organised the Launching workshop of the International...
Needed most in poorer nations: educational opportunities, greater focus on practical water-related results, papers say Assess water research impact by successful results achieved, not by papers published and cited by...
SDG Policy Support System: 6-step path to critical SDG 6 Enables effective assessment of national situations, exposes gaps and weaknesses in critical dimensions of policy, to help create workable strategies...
At least 140 million people in 50 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above WHO guideline A United Nations University study compares for the first time the...
World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50% more than previously estimated; Enough in a year to cover Florida under a foot (30.5 cm)...