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4 Feb 2025
Success factors in ensuring resilient water supplies for critical facilities:
Current day disasters – whether they are natural or man-made - can potentially have a wide reaching and negative impacts. It is increasingly important to try to reduce the impact of such disasters, and for this reason, many researchers undertake studies which aim to support the effort of developing strategies to protect infrastructure systems by reducing hazards, risks, and threats from natural and manmade events...
4 Feb 2025
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services publishes nexus assessment
On the 17th of December 2024, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released its ‘nexus’ assessment report on the interlinkages between biodiversity, water, food, and health in the context of climate change. The nexus assessment examines ways in which the current decline in biodiversity, driven by human action and by climate change, impacts on food security, water availability and quality, and health...
4 Feb 2025
EBRD to invest in water infrastructure in Ganja, Azerbaijan
On January 22nd, at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Azerbaijan and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) signed a loan agreement for €35 million, for the benefit of the Azerbaijan State Water Resources Agency. The funds will go towards an upgrade of water management systems in Azerbaijan’s second-largest city, Ganja...
3 Feb 2025
Kazachstan announces 42% increase in Northern Aral Sea
On January 13th, the Astana Times in Kazakhstan reported an increase of water volume of 42% -reaching 27 billion cubic meters- in the Northern Aral Sea, as a result of the first phase of the project to preserve the Aral Sea. Results show that the salinity of the water in this section of the Aral Sea decreased almost by a factor of four, while the annual volume of fisheries increased to 8,000 tons...
3 Feb 2025
Analysing progress on transboundary cooperation:
In December 2024, UNECE published its third report on progress on transboundary cooperation under the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention). This latest report covers the period between 2020–2023, summarising and analysing the individual reports submitted by the 48 countries which have acceded to the Convention...
3 Feb 2025
Wetlands hold the blueprint for securing water, ecosystems, and our common future
The world is warning us, but we aren’t listening. In 2024, we faced a series of devastating water-related disasters. Last October, Valencia, Spain, experienced catastrophic floods that claimed over 200 lives and caused extensive environmental damage to the nearby Albufera wetland. And just a hundred kilometres away, the same storm front brought only minimal rainfall to areas of Catalonia that had been suffering unprecedented water shortages caused by severe drought...
2 Feb 2025
Protecting the Pantanal for our common future
World Wetlands Day serves is a powerful reminder of the critical role of wetlands in sustaining life. Wetlands are so much more than just waterlogged landscapes; they are biodiversity havens, climate regulators, and central to water security. Yet, they continue to be misunderstood, undervalued and under protected...
31 Jan 2025
2024 OneWater Summit in Riyadh provides new points of entry for humanitarian WASH
The WASH RoadMap: a collective platform for humanitarian WASH responses According to the WHO, ensuring to safe water, sanitation and hygiene are among the top three priorities in global humanitarian Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) responses. Safe access to WASH is a cornerstone of effective local support: it helps to prevent waterborne diseases, it supports the maintenance of personal hygiene and dignity, it is implicated in the personal security and in the access to education of women and girls, it is vital for preparing food and maintaining nutritional health, it reduces healthcare burdens and enhances community resilience...
31 Jan 2025
Wetlands hold the blueprint for securing water, ecosystems, and our common future
The world is warning us, but we aren’t listening. In 2024, we faced a series of devastating water-related disasters. Last October, Valencia, Spain, experienced catastrophic floods that claimed over 200 lives and caused extensive environmental damage to the nearby Albufera wetland. Only a hundred kilometres away, the same storm front brought only minimal rainfall to areas of Catalonia that had been suffering unprecedented water shortages caused by severe drought...
30 Jan 2025
European water authorities urge EU leaders to phase out PFAS
On January 14th, in a press release by EurEau, EU leaders were urged to act on per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS), to safeguard Europe’s water quality. 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, a Nature study in 2024 reveals...
28 Jan 2025
EU and INBO launch initiative for Peer-to-Peer learning among River Basin Organisations
The European Commission and the International Network of Basin Organisations (INBO) have initiated a four-year programme of peer-to-peer support for Aquifer, Lake and River Basin Organisations. This programme, referred to as the Peer-to-Peer for Lake and River Organisations (P2P) programme, is the first of its kind, aiming to strengthen integrated and sustainable water resources management at basin level, against the background of growing pressures on freshwater resources and climate change...
27 Jan 2025
Towards agreement on the establishment of the Luapula River and Lake Mweru Authority
From 4-6 December 2024, the Secretariat of the Water Convention supported a second round of negotiations for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Luapula River and Lake Mweru Authority. The envisaged Agreement is to be entered into by Republic of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), establishing a transboundary river basin organisation which would oversee the joint development of water resources in the Luapula River Catchment...