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7 Feb 2023
Astana meeting focuses on regional monitoring and information exchange
The Regional Workshop on Monitoring, Assessment and Information Sharing in Transboundary Basins in Central Asiawas held in Astana, Kazakhstan on the 1st and 2nd of February 2023. Organised by the International Water Assessment Centre jointly with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the workshop aimed to promote exchange between participants from different countries in the region on the topic of monitoring, assessment and data exchange...
7 Feb 2023
Integration of water in NDCs in Sub-Saharan Africa commendable, more efforts crucial
Available data indicate significant benefits in integrating climate change coordination with good practices established for water management. Integrating water into the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) agreed under the Paris Agreement is a practical and urgently needed tool to achieve this...
6 Feb 2023
UN Water Conference should refocus WASH sector on survival and protection
An Interview with Dr. Jean Lapegue, Senior WASH Advisor for Action Contre la Faim France Tobias Schmitz: Perhaps you can explain your role within the WASH Road Map and the Call to Action for our readers? Jean Lapegue: Action contre la Faim (ACF) is co-leading - alongside with the French Water Partnership - the advocacy initiative known as the 'WASH Road Map '(WRM)...
28 Jan 2023
Xylem Acquires Evoqua in $ 7.5 billion transaction
On the 23rd of January Xylem Inc., a water technology company, together with Evoqua Technologies Corporation, a company specialising in advanced water treatment technology, announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Xylem will acquire Evoqua in an all-stock, transaction with a value of US $ 7...
26 Jan 2023
World Food Programme 22 million people food insecure in the Horn of Africa
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is worsening after five consecutive below average rains. Combined with insecurity and economic volatility, WFP states, the impact of the drought on food security has been devastating. WFP estimates that 22 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are acutely food insecure because of drought...
24 Jan 2023
The Disruptive Power of Open-Source Water Data: The Case of the Euphrates-Tigris Basin
Contradictory Data on Surface Water Flows The politics of water in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin has been marked by different periods of cooperation, confrontation, and compromise between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq since the early 1920s. For decades, factors such as, inter alia, global geopolitical contexts (e...
23 Jan 2023
Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II to boost water supply to South Africa
With the awarding of major contracts, Lesotho and South Africa are satisfied that phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is now underway. The LHWP is a multi-phase international project between Lesotho and South Africa established through a treaty signed by the two countries in 1986. Phase I involved the construction of a 185-metre-high dam and augmenting South Africa’s freshwater supply by transferring water from the Maluti mountains into the Vaal River system through a 48 km long tunnel and a tail pond...
22 Jan 2023
Atmospheric rivers in California and their responses
Since the 27th of December 2022, following three years of drought which triggered exceptional cutbacks on water allocations throughout the Colorado River basin, the state of California experienced a series of intense moisture laden storms known as ‘atmospheric rivers’. Depending on the location, rainfall across California has been between 200% and 600% above normal...
21 Jan 2023
Revised EU Drinking Water Directive Enters into Force
The revised requirements for the quality of and access to drinking water across the European Union entered into force on the 12th of January. The EU Drinking Water Directive provides an update on the EU’s Water Framework Directive (WFD) from 2000 which set the minimum requirements for freshwater quality and quantity across the EU...
19 Jan 2023
Japanese govt intends to release Fukushima water in the next six months
The government of Japan has announced its intention to release wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean within the next six months. In April 2021, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had already announced the proposed release of 1,23 million mᶟ of water into the Pacific Ocean. On the 13th of January this year, the Japanese government announced its intention to start releasing the water into the ocean during the first half of the current year...
18 Jan 2023
Global Water Monitor Summary Report 2022: Water Cycle is Changing
The global water cycle is changing due to the influence of global warming. This is a key conclusion of the Global Water Monitor Summary Report 2022. The report states that overall, over 2022, a so-called la Niña pattern persisted in the Pacific Ocean for the third year in a row. La Niña is a weather pattern that forms part of a cycle that lasts between two and seven years and lowers the temperature of surface ocean waters on the tropical west coast of Latin America...
12 Jan 2023
Floods in Sudan destroy infrastructure and lead to internal displacements
AT least 24,860 homes have been destroyed and 48,250 homes damaged by floods in 16 of the 18 states of Sudan this year, according to the Sudan Situation Report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released on Dec,2022. According to the Government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC), humanitarian organisations on the ground, and local authorities, the number of people affected by seasonal rains and flash floods across Sudan has remained constant at 349,000 since 26 September,this year...