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6 Jul 2023
FAO launches Global Dialogue on Water Tenure
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has launched the Global Dialogue on Water Tenure, which commenced at the UN 2023 Water Conference in March this year. According to Sasha Koo-Oshima, Deputy Director of the FAO Land and Water Division, the dialogue will address the increasingly pressing issue of water allocation under scenarios of diminishing freshwater resources due to climate change and evolving needs for water...
5 Jul 2023
Afghanistan and Iran seek solution over the waters of the Helmand River
Amid a recent drought in south-eastern Iran, the dispute between Afghanistan and Iran over the rights to the waters of the Helmand River have re-emerged, leading to violent clashes. A violent incident took place on the 27th of May in which Iranian border guards and Taliban fighters opened fire, killing two people...
5 Jul 2023
Thames Water: Privatised water utility faces insolvency
Thames Water, the U.K.’s largest water utility which provides water supplies to some 10 million clients in London and the Thames Valley, is facing the threat of insolvency, with some U.S. $ 17.5 billion in accumulated debt. The debt is secured by some U.S. $ 22.7 billion in operating assets, and the threat of insolvency comes despite an investment of U...
3 Jul 2023
Conflict, water shortages and humanitarian responses in Sudan
Fighting between rival factions of Sudan’s military that erupted in mid-April has led to a worsening humanitarian situation in the country which includes increasing shortages of water and food. Fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in various cities on the 15th of April...
26 Jun 2023
Uruguay Declares Water Emergency
Uruguay President Luis Lacalle Pou declared a state of emergency in the capital Montevideo on the 20th of June following drops in the levels of the city’s supply reservoir. Uruguay is currently facing its worst drought in 74 years. The city of Montevideo relies for its water supply on the Paso Severino Dam which has a potential storage capacity of 70 million m³, but dams levels have been dropping and reached just 4...
23 Jun 2023
Tanzania to launch U.S. $ 20 billion water investment programme
The government of Tanzania has announced that it will launch a U.S. $ 20 billion water investment programme in the course of 2023. The aim of the programme, which will run from 2023 to 2030, will be to boost water security in Tanzania through investments in four key areas. The first of these, accounting for 40% of investments, is investment in social well-being: investments to improve access to water and sanitation services, the promotion of gender equality and social inclusion, and livelihood improvement...
15 Jun 2023
Tehran Experiences five days of Water Cuts
The Iranian Capital Tehran has suffered five days of interruptions in the supply of piped water which has been linked to a flooding event. Iran’s Minister of Energy announced that the interruptions were caused by a landslide that occurred in the vicinity of the Karaj dam, causing high levels of turbidity in the water...
3 Jun 2023
The United Nations Water Conference: a perspective from Action Against Hunger
Introduction The March 2023 Water Conference brought together 170 Member States under the aegis of the United Nations, around various ‘hot’ topics, such as the global governance of the sector, the crisis of access to water, water as common good of humanity, the highly insufficient funding of the sector, particularly in its humanitarian dimension (only 30% of United Nations Humanitarian Response Plans were funded in 2022) and the overall lack of data on the resource...
2 Jun 2023
Tanzania doubles budget for rural water supply
The government of Tanzania has more than doubled its budget allocation to the Rural Water and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) in Geita district. RUWASA district manager Sande Batakanwa announced this to a meeting of community-based water services organisations, indicating that the government of Tanzania had allocated 4...
1 Jun 2023
Outcomes of Plastics Treaty Negotiations affect Action on Water and Climate
The second meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for a global Plastics Treaty began in Paris, France on the 29th of May. The meeting is scheduled to continue until June 2nd. This follows from a resolution passed on the 2nd of March 2022 during the fifth United National Environmental Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi...
24 May 2023
Women in Water Diplomacy Network Reports on Progress
In April, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network (WWDN) published its 2023 After Action Report which reviews the activities of both its Water Diplomacy Symposium as well as the network’s engagement in the UN 2023 Water Conference. Following the expression in 2022 of its strategic objectives for the period 2022-2017, the WWDN embarked on the implementation of its five point strategy to improve gender equality in high-level decision making in transboundary basins...
22 May 2023
IADB publishes cybersecurity study on water infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean
Source of Innovation, a partnership promoted and co-financed by the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), has carried out a study on cybersecurity trends in the water and sanitation sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The study involved an assessment of LAC’s water and wastewater infrastructure ‘cybersecurity readiness’ and presents key recommendations for public and private sector actors to increase their organization’s overall cyber resilience...