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8 Oct 2022
Water.org Unveils $1 Billion Plan for Water Access at CGI
Water.org, a global non-profit organization whose mission is to bring safe, accessible and cost-effective water and sanitation to the world”, has announced a US$ 1bn plan to improve the resilience of water services around the world. To achieve this, a dedicated Water and Climate Fund was launched at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference in New York, which aims to to help 100 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America...
7 Oct 2022
Shallow-Water Mining Undermines Global Sustainability Goals, New Study Finds
A new report by Finnish scientists Laura Raikkonen and Elina A. Virtanen argues that, despite claims that shallow-water mining is a sustainable way to meet increasing demand for metals, environmental impacts can be high, while adequate protective legislation is still not in place. The scarcity of certain minerals in terrestrial sources as well as the high high costs of deep-sea mining have been driving a change of focus towards shallow-water mining (mining in waters up to 200m deep), as some seabed deposits can have high concentrations of metals...
7 Oct 2022
Local Communities Take Action Against Water Scarcity in Mexico
In Mexico’s Oaxaca valley, a region that has been hit by drought, local indigenous communities have come together to construct 579 different types of water infrastructure to tackle the problem of water scarcity. The construction of wells, water pans and dams has greatly increased access to water in the region despite the lack of rain...
7 Oct 2022
“Unprecedented” Water Crisis in Jordan, Officials Say
As the hot, dry summer grows longer, Jordan’s main dams are now at levels below 15% and officials fear the consequences if the wet season is further delayed. Omar Salameh, a spokesperson for the Water Ministry of Jordan, said in a statement to Arab News: “This is unprecedented. Never in the history of Jordan has such a percentage been recorded...
7 Oct 2022
UN predicts 700 million displaced in Africa by 2030 due to water scarcity
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released a statement warning that, by 2030, as many as 700 million Africans will be displaced due to water scarcity issues. By then, only 1 in 5 countries will have sustainably managed water sources. With changing precipitation patterns and shrinking water reserves such as lakes and glaciers, combined with a growing need for water, WMO says that there is also a growing risk of water-related conflict...
7 Oct 2022
Water Quality Affected by Climate Change, New Study Finds
A new study published by Water Research has found that deforestation caused by climate change can have a negative impact on water quality in reservoirs. A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) conducted a study on the Rappbode reservoir in the Harz region of Germany and found that the indirect consequences of climate change on water quality are being seriously underestimated...
6 Oct 2022
Spanish farmers demand government stops sending water to Portugal
Around 3.000 Spanish farmers from three different provinces have taken to the streets of Leon, a town in north-western Spain, demanding that the Spanish government stop sending water across the border to Portugal as per the treaty signed by the two countries in 1998. Spanish farmers accuse the country’s central government of turning their backs on rural areas amid the drought, while Spanish officials have pointed out that releasing the water is in accordance with the 1998 Albufeira Convention...
6 Oct 2022
Megadrought in American South-West Reignites Water Law Debate
Recent research has shown that the megadrought currently being experienced in the American south-west is the driest period that the Colorado River Basin (CRB) has experienced in 1200 years. Since the year 2000, south-western North America has been exceptionally dry due to low rainfall and high temperatures, and soil moisture levels in summertime were below average for 18 of the past 22 years...
6 Oct 2022
The Zio rice basins: punches and machetes or water diplomacy?
About thirty kilometres northwest of Lomé, the Togolese capital, stretching to the horizon in every direction, one can witness the majestic rice-growing basins of the municipality of Zio 2. Many visitors make a stopover to contemplate the beauty of the rice fields and to catch that particular smell...
5 Oct 2022
UN predicts 700 million displaced in Africa by 2030 due to water scarcity
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has released a statement warning that, by 2030, as many as 700 million Africans will be displaced due to water scarcity issues. By then, only 1 in 5 countries will have sustainably managed water sources. With changing precipitation patterns and shrinking water reservoirs such as lakes and glaciers, combined with a growing need for water, WMO says that there is also a growing risk of water-related conflict...
5 Oct 2022
No Easy Water in Egypt: Aligning Water and Climate Agendas at COP27
At the time of writing, the global climate conference — COP27 — is only a month away. Is water on the global climate agenda? I have been working on water and climate policy issues since COP15 in 2009, and our organisation has worked directly with the UNFCCC and many national governments on national and global climate policy since about 2015...
5 Oct 2022
Water-Related Risks to Cause US$ 5.6 Trillion in losses by 2050
GHD, a global professional (engineering and architecture) services company specialising in water, energy and urbanisation, has released a study in September claiming that, by 2050, droughts, floods and storms can have a negative impact on 8 key countries’ GDP of up to US$ 5.6 trillion. Noting the rise in global economic losses from extreme weather from US $ 117,8 billion in 2020 to US $ 224 billion in 2021, GHD conducted water risk analysis across seven countries to estimate future losses in these countries by 2050...