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6 Jun 2024
Improving agricultural water use efficiency to increase climate resilience in Jordan
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is supporting a project in Jordan aimed at increasing agricultural water use efficiency as a means to increase climate resilience in vulnerable regions of the country. The U.S. $ 33.2 million project financed by the GCF – for which an additional U.S. $ 8 million has been provided by the government of Jordan - aims to reduce the demand for scarce groundwater among rural farming communities in four governorates in the Dead Sea Valley...
6 Jun 2024
Non-Sewered Sanitation:
A new paper published in May in the journal Nature by EAWAG scientist Dr Linda Strande unpacks a promising area of research into non-sewered sanitation, underlining the urgent need to provide scientific evidence in an area which has long suffered relative neglect in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector...
4 Jun 2024
Launch of Global Alliance to Spare Water from Armed Conflict
In his 2023 annual report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres notes that during the year in review, « Conflict ... […] .. triggered and aggravated water scarcity. The destruction, damage and disruption – sometimes deliberate – of water services, combined with the impact of climate change and years of disrepair, left millions without safe water, causing contamination, the outbreak of deadly infectious diseases and the risk of malnutrition » On May 23, 2024, at UN headquarters in New York, as part of the week dedicated to the topic of protection of civilians in armed conflict (an event which has been organised for the past 25 years), a round table was held on the topic of sparing water from armed conflict for the enhanced protection of civilians...
31 May 2024
Benin to ratify treaty for joint management of the Mono River Basin
The government of Benin has announced its intention to ratify the treaty for the joint management of the Mono River bssin shared by Togo and Benin. The Mono River rises north east of Sokodé in Togo and flows through eastern Togo for some 400 km in a southerly direction, draining a basin of some 20,000 km² and whose waters impact on teh livelihoods of some 3 million people...
30 May 2024
Scenarios for the Deltas of Tomorrow:
On the 24th of April, Deltares, a water policy research institute based on the Netherlands, presented its latest study on possible scenarios for the water management and spatial planning in the Netherlands in the coming decades. The study, published every 6 years and based on data and insights from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Wageningen University & Research and Deltares, was officially presented to the Minister for Infrastructure and Water Management, Mark Harbers...
30 May 2024
Towards a ‘gold standard’ for sewer safety and climate resilience:
At the World Water Summit 2024 in London, held from the 15th to the 17th of April, a round table discussion was held on the topic of the “gold standard for sewer safety”. This topic was also the subject of a white paper published in May by Global Water Intelligence in partnership with Grundfos...
30 May 2024
Dumping of Sewage continues in UK in spite of commitments
The situation in the United Kingdom regarding the dumping of untreated sewage into the environment – first reported by The Water Diplomat in November 2022 - is not improving. Controversy over wastewater discharges over the past years had led to the adoption of a new environmental law in 2021 and a plan to reduce stormwater overflows...
29 May 2024
Torrential rains cause damage and loss of life in East Africa, especially in Kenya
During this year’s long rainy season, which usually lasts from March to May, Kenya has been severely affected by torrential rains which took place during the month of April. According to a situation assessment by the United Nations Agency for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), as of the end of April, the combination of heavy rain and flash floods had left 103 people dead, 29 injured, 21 people missing, 150,365 people (30,073 families) displaced and nearly 191,000 affected across the country...
28 May 2024
Growing group of refugees in Mauritania receive WASH services
According to a UNICEF flash update published in mid-May, there are currently some 180,000 refugees present in the Hodh Ech Chargui region of eastern Mauritania, and this number is expected to reach 240,000 by the end of the year. Amid upheaval in the Sahel region, Mauritania has remained stable and continues to host a growing refugee population which has grown from 74,000 in 2016 to the present 180,000...
27 May 2024
Bangalore, India's high-tech capital, is experiencing serious water shortages
In the 20th Century, Bangalore was known as the "Garden City"» of India, or the city of 1000 lakes. The city had a long history of construction of artificial tanks for irrigation, fishing, and as a source of drinking water. These lakes served to replenish the groundwater on which the city largely relies...
27 May 2024
Dutch emergency team assists with Kazakhstan floods
After two weeks of heavy flooding which took place at the beginning of April this year, Kazakhstan requested assistance from the Dutch government. The Dutch Disaster Risk Reduction and Surge Support (DRRS) team called up water experts from various disciplines to help alleviate the emergency situation in the Central Asian country...
24 May 2024
South Caucasus Chapter of Women in Water Diplomacy:
In 2017, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network was launched to improve gender equality in high-level decision-making in transboundary basins and regions, focusing the initiative on women's leadership in regional dialogues around shared waters. This international initiative has already borne fruit, with the first network launched in the Nile Basin that same year, followed by a regional network in Central Asia/Afghanistan established in 2021, another in North America in 2023, and in the Orange-Senqu basin aiming to launch later this year...