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22 May 2024
Zimbabwe on the road to acceding to global water conventions
Zimbabwe shares a total of five river basins with her riparian neighbours, namely the Buzi, Limpopo, Pungwe, Save and Zambezi Rivers and one international lake, i.e. Kariba dam. To foster closer cooperation for the sustainable, joint and co-ordinated management, protection and utilisation of shared water resources, Zimbabwe is party to a total of eleven (11) bilateral and multilateral water agreements...
21 May 2024
Overexploitation of groundwater causes widespread urban subsidence in China
There is a phenomenon that the Chinese government is facing which is now well known to researchers and which has been studied for several decades: the subsidence of their country's urban centers. Indeed, studies elsewhere of the Houston, Jakarta, Mexico City and New Delhi conurbations have already demonstrated that these areas are settling in on themselves, each with its own dynamics depending on urban development and soil type...
20 May 2024
Historic floods in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul
The state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil experienced very challenging times in the early days of May 2024, subjected to rainfall of unprecedented duration and intensity. In the space of a week, more than 300 mm of water fell in the region, and in some places the rainfall recorded was 150 mm in less than 24 hours...
17 May 2024
Funding a Water Secure Future
A new World Bank report released on the 6th of May presents a global overview of spending in the water sector, noting that there is a significant gap between spending needs and actual spending. According to the World Bank, this study represents the first attempt to create a 360° overview of spending in the entire water sector the sector, with the objective of understanding existing funding gaps in comparison to the goals that have been set, and to provide guidance on the ways in which these gaps can be closed...
16 May 2024
Lessons in future river basin management from the last three decades:
In an article published in the journal Water International, practitioners from the International Network of Basin Organisations and the International Office for Water have reviewed experiences with the concept of Integrated Water Resources Management over the past 30 years, drawing some conclusions for the future of river basin management...
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
Rehabilitating Beira: towards a more resilient coastal city
The coastal city of Beira in Mozambique – the country’s second largest city - is currently undergoing rehabilitation work to increase its resilience to the impact of cyclones which regularly form on the Indian Ocean, and which have a major impact on infrastructure and livelihoods in Southern Africa...
3 May 2024
International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its neighbours in Paris
One year after the commencement of the conflict in Sudan, France, Germany and the European Union organised an international humanitarian conference for Sudan and neighbouring countries. This conference brought together ministers and representatives of 58 States as well as donor agencies, United Nations agencies, regional organisations and humanitarian organisations...
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...
3 May 2024
Green Climate Fund invests in increased resilience for rural communities in rural Ethiopia
The Green Climate Fund is currently entering the final phases of a project to increase the drought resilience of rural communities in Ethiopia who are facing risks in their water supplies and their livelihoods. The project, which is valued at U.S. $ 50 million with a life span of five years, is intended to reach 1...
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...