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18 Feb 2025
Severe environmental devastation and worsened health challenges reported from Gaza
The ceasefire that came into effect in Gaza on the 15th of January after months of war provided an opportunity for a situation assessment, amongst others on the access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services. On February 6th, Yale Environment 360 reported on the severe environmental devastation in Gaza, with “water supplies contaminated, raw sewage pouring into the Mediterranean, once-fertile soils ruined, and the land stripped of trees...
18 Feb 2025
The Financialisation of Rivers:
In a publication in the journal ‘Global Environmental Change’, researchers have investigated the role of climate finance in supporting the construction of hydropower facilities in transboundary rivers. These hydropower projects have been financed through carbon offset mechanisms whereby industrialised countries can fund emissions reducing projects in other countries and claim these saved emissions as part of their national emission reduction targets...
18 Feb 2025
The Association of Drinking Water Consumers of Benin
Introduction Lambassa Institute of Cultural Affairs-Benin (ICA Benin) is a Beninese NGO founded in 2004. It is affiliated to ICA International, based in Canada. Our organisation works in the fields of water and sanitation, climate change and the advancement of women. In this article, we will present our experiences of promoting the human right to water through the Association of Drinking Water Consumers (ACEP) in Benin...
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...