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1 Jul 2024
Murray-Darling Basin Authority responds to Stakeholder Consultations
Australia is among the countries in the world that is most affected by climate change, and this has a powerful effect on water resources availability and variability. The Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia's largest, is expected to be particularly hard hit (especially its lower reaches covering southern New South Wales, Victoria and eastern South Australia)...
1 Jul 2024
Progress in Cooperation on the Senegal-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin
Progress is currently underway to ensure an appropriate legal and institutional format for the joint management of the Senegal-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB), a crucial transboundary water resource shared by The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal. The Gambia (2023), Guinea Bissau (2021) and Senegal (2018) are parties to the Convention on the Protection and use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, and as such, support is being provided by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) for the strengthening of cooperation between the states sharing the aquifer basin...
28 Jun 2024
Norwegian Refugee Council lists displacements in Burkina Faso as world’s most neglected crisis
On the 3rd of June, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) published its annual report of the world’s most neglected displacement crises. In the wake of a conflict that has been raging in the country since 2019, Burkina Faso saw the internal displacement of 1.9 million people by the end of January 2023, rising to 2...
28 Jun 2024
First Meeting of the Global Water Analysis Laboratory Network
The first coordination meeting of the Global Water Analysis Laboratory Network (GloWAL) took place in Vienna between the 18th and 20th of June 2024. This network was launched in March 2023 during the UN 2023 water conference to support the global data gathering that is needed for the achievement of national and global water goals and targets...
27 Jun 2024
Tanzania invests heavily in water infrastructure to meet 2030 targets
In February 2021, the Africa Water Investment Programme (AIP) was adopted at the 34th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as part of the Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA). The launch of this initiative was aimed at addressing the continent's existing gap in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on water and sanitation, through an initiative to mobilise investments of US$30 billion per year in the sector until 2030...
26 Jun 2024
Groundwater quality assessment guidelines published
On Monday June 3, 2024, Friends of Groundwater, a group working within the World Water Quality Alliance announced the publication of new guidelines for groundwater water quality assessment. A first version had been published in 2022, subsequently supplemented and improved, incorporating practical experience in Uganda, Chile, Sweden and South Korea...
26 Jun 2024
Chatham House explores more sustainable North-South trade in water use
At a time when two billion people globally are experiencing varying degrees of water stress as a result of climate change, but also of the increasing anthropogenic pressures on water resources for food production, clothing and domestic use, researchers at the London based Chatham House think tank have examined the issue of trade related water risks, which they argue is exacerbating water insecurity and deepening inequalities between countries in the global North and countries in the global South...
26 Jun 2024
Zimbabwe holds historic national workshop for the accession to UN water conventions
A national workshop for the accession to global water conventions was held on the 17th and 18th of June 2024 at Rainbow Towers Conference Centre in Zimbabwe as the country inches closer to complete the accession process. These global water conventions are: the 1992 Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (the Water Convention) and the 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the 1997 Watercourses Convention)...
19 Jun 2024
Watering the Clean Energy Transition:
On the 3rd of June, during the Bonn Climate Change Conference 2024 , the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) hosted an event on ‘watering the clean energy transition’. This event explored the relationships between water and energy in the context of the transition to clean sources of energy...
13 Jun 2024
Wildfire season in Pantanal wetland on track for record ecosystem damage
By the 9th of June, the number of fires burning in the Pantanal wetland are almost an order of magnitude larger (935% higher) than for the same period last year. Between the 1st of January and the 9th of June this year, 3,400 km² has burned, which is the highest on record for the period. The peak period for such wildfires is still far off, as they mostly occur in August and September, but the wetlands are dry due to the lack of rain and vulnerable to the outbreak of fire...
6 Jun 2024
The 10th World Water Forum's (Bali) Ministerial Declaration: An Analysis
The 10th World Water Forum was held in Bali, Indonesia, from 20 to 24 May 2024, in the presence of some 20,000 participants[1] from 160 countries, 107 international organizations, several ministerial delegations and some heads of state. At this occasion, the States issued a Ministerial Declaration on 21 May 2024[2]...
6 Jun 2024
South Sudan Signs Global Compact on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
On the 3rd of June, The President of South Sudan, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, signed the country’s Heads of State Initiative Compact on Water and Sanitation to ensure universal access to water and sanitation in the country. According to UNICEF. the signing of the Compact on Water and Sanitation marks a significant step forward in improving the water and sanitation situation in South Sudan which faces many climate-related, social and economic challenges...