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3 May 2024
Water Resilience for Economic Resilience: Water as an Economic Connector
On the 8th of April, the Water Resilience for Economic Resilience Initiative, led by the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, released a report on managing water for economic resilience. The report builds on 15 case studies to draw conclusions about how action on water can enable economic resilience...
3 May 2024
Conflicts emerge over water permits and water footprint of avocado production in Mexico
During the week of the 15th of April, small scale farmers and activists from Villa Madero in Michoacan, Mexico started dismantling illegal irrigation equipment and breaching water pans installed in mountain springs to supply avocado orchards. These actions were taken in protest against their perceived excessive claim on limited water supplies by the large-scale avocado farms, which has prevented water from flowing down for use by the local community...
3 May 2024
Research report provides interim overview of effects of war on water and health in Gaza
On the 24th of April, the Geneva Water Hub published a report on the effects of war-induced damage to water and sewage services on public health in Gaza since the 7th of October 2023. Piecing together available data on the changing status of these services and the concomitant effects on public health, the report also reviews the evidence from the point of view of international humanitarian law, which requires military decision-makers to consider the reasonably foreseeable impacts of their attacks...
2 May 2024
Water shortages in Bogota prompt rationing
The Colombian city of Bogota is currently facing critical water shortages, with the San Rafael reservoir that supplies 70% of the water of the city having dropped to 19% of its supply capacity. On the 15th of April, the city’s mayor Carlos Fernando Galán announced measures to reduce water consumption, whereby nine zones in the city would take turns to be cut off from water for 24 hours...
2 May 2024
Dakar Water Hub Keynote Address on Water Insecurity and Prosperity in West Africa
In the third week of April, Dr Boubacar Barry, scientific advisor to the Dakar Water Hub, presented a keynote address on water security as a constraint to - or enabler for – prosperity in West Africa. The keynote address was held at a seminar in Accra organized by the Water Resource Management Commission of the Economic Community of West African States and the International Water Management Institute...
2 May 2024
Research report provides interim overview of effects of war on water and health in Gaza
On the 24th of April, the Geneva Water Hub published a report on the effects of war induced damage to water and sewage services on public health in Gaza since the 7th of October 2023. Piecing together available data on the changing status of these services and the concomitant effects on public health, the report also reviews the evidence from the point of view of international humanitarian law, which requires military decision-makers to consider the reasonably foreseeable impacts of their attacks...
29 Apr 2024
Co-creation: a key but often ignored ingredient to successful water, sanitation and solid waste solutions
Stakeholders often know what solutions are needed and wanted for their contexts. Sometimes, they even have ideas on how to achieve them. External researchers and implementers working in development projects need to understand this, and know when, how and where this is crucial. This was the overarching message that resonated in two workshops held during the Uganda Water and Environmental Week a few weeks ago in Kampala...
24 Apr 2024
Mexico running behind on scheduled water deliveries to U.S. amid severe drought
Currently, in the fourth year of a five year cycle of water deliveries, Mexico has only delivered 30% of the water that it shares with the United States in terms of a treaty from 1944. This is the lowest amount of water delivered to the United States at this point in the cycle since 1992. Waters entering the Rio Grande below Fort Quitman are apportioned to the United States or Mexico by terms set out in the treaty...
22 Apr 2024
Albania to pilot UNECE’s scorecard for equitable access to water and sanitation
Albania has commenced a comprehensive assessment of access to water and sanitation in the country in order to generate a baseline measure of equitable access to these services. At a workshop held in Albania in March this year, a data gap had been identified on vulnerable and marginalized communities, which the baseline assessment will seek to address...
19 Apr 2024
Standoff in investments and potential renationalization of Thames Water
In early April, Thames Water’s parent company Kemble sent a formal notice to shareholders to announce that it had defaulted on its debt payments on a € 468 million bond. Thames Water has been experiencing financial difficulties for some time, and British regulator OFWAT has been working with the utility in recent months to develop a response to the challenges it is facing...
18 Apr 2024
Global Study of PFAS concentrations in water show pervasiveness of contamination
A study published in Nature Geoscience on the 8th of April has combined data from around the world on the concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in surface and groundwater to help improve mitigation measures, such as providing regulatory guidance. PFAS substances are a class of more than 14,000 synthetic chemicals which have been used for more than 70 years in a broad range of industries and consumer products...
5 Apr 2024
White House and EPA warn against cyberattacks on water systems
The National Security Advisor and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to all U.S. Governors urging them to secure critical water infrastructure against cyberattacks. The letter from the White House, dated 18th of March, stated that disabling cyberattacks are striking water and wastewater systems throughout the United States...