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27 Jun 2023
Delhi Constructs More Rainwater Harvesting Pits
The New Delhi Public Works Department has announced that it has constructed an additional 82 rainwater harvesting pits to capture water during the monsoon and recharge aquifers. The pits were constructed at waterlogging hotspots in the city along the margins of roads to prevent waterlogging. The Delhi administration made the installation of rainwater harvesting systems mandatory in 2012 for all plots exceeding an area of 100 m²...
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...
22 Jun 2023
The Destruction of Nova Kakhovka Dam: a review
The Nova Kakhovka Dam, Ukraine’s largest dam by volume with a reservoir containing approximately 18 km³ of water, was destroyed on the 6th of June, releasing a high energy wave down the Dnieper River that caused catastrophic flooding. The floods have so far caused 45 confirmed fatalities, destroyed villages, inundated farmland and cut off clean water supplies in the lower section of the Dnieper River for more than 1 million people...
20 Jun 2023
First International Treaty on High Seas Adopted
The world’s first international treaty to protect international high seas was adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly on Monday the 19th of June. The treaty requires 60 countries to ratify it in order for it to enter into force. This follows the completion of more than 15 years of negotiation among more than 150 countries to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of ocean biodiversity...
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...
13 Jun 2023
Fukushima Nuclear Plant commences wastewater release trials
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility has commenced the trials of equipment to release radioactive wastewater from the plant into the Pacific Ocean. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began tests of processing equipment on the 11th of June for the planned release of pre-treated wastewater which has been stored at the severely damaged nuclear facility...
5 Jun 2023
Somalia floods follow years of drought
Following heavy rains and flooding in March this year, central Somalia again experienced heavy rains in mid-May, killing 22 people and affecting an estimated 450 000 people, of whom 219 000 have been displaced. The long rains, which had provided little relief during the past three years due to an ongoing drought, came early in Somalia this year, arriving in March and April rather than May...
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...
2 Jun 2023
European Commission takes Italy to court over lack of urban wastewater treatment
On the 1st of June, the European Commission decided to refer Italy to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for breaching its obligations under the wastewater treatment directive. This decision follows an earlier judgement from the ECJ from 2014 that in 74 urban areas, Italy has been falling behind in its obligations to sufficiently treat urban wastewater before releasing it back into the environment...
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...