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30 Oct 2024
From Stockholm to COP 29: A conversation with Bapon Fakhruddin and Henk Ovink
The Water Diplomat: What does Stockholm World Water Week represent to you, and how does the World Water Week help to deepen your understanding of water challenges and solutions? Bapon Fakhruddin: To me, World Water Week is important because it brings global convergence of forward-thinking nations dedicated to addressing critical water issues...
24 Oct 2024
10th Meeting of Parties to the Water Convention in Slovenia
In Ljubljana, Slovenia, more than 100 countries and 30 ministers attended the 10th session of Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) from 23 - 25 October. Prior to the MOP, on the 16th of October, a call to action was issued by Ms Sonja Koeppel, Secretary of the Convention to build momentum to demonstrate how transboundary cooperation accelerates climate action and helps reduce disaster risks, among other benefits...
18 Oct 2024
The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good
On the 17th of October, the Global Commission on the Economics of Water published its 2024 report entitled ‘The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good’. The report commences with a stark warning that for the first time in history, the hydrological cycle is out of balance, undermining the prospect of an equitable and sustainable future for all...
15 Oct 2024
Global Water Tariff Survey 2024: a year of record increases in tariffs
On October 1st, Global Water Intelligence (GWI) published the 2024 Global Water Tariff Survey 2024 which reports a record increase in global water, wastewater and stormwater bills over the past year. GWI is an intelligence service providing information on the international water market, and it has conducted a global water tariff survey since 2008, when it performed its first survey across 184 utilities...
10 Oct 2024
WMO publishes third overview of the state of global water resources
On the 7th of October, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released its State of Global Water Resources 2023 report, which is intended to provide an annual synthesis of global water resources as well as to provide key insights relevant to policy development and decision making. The report summarises global information on nine key aspects of the global hydrological system, and for each of these, the hydrological system showed extensive signs of change during 2023...
5 Oct 2024
Scaling up climate resilient water management practices in La Mojana region in Colombia
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has been supporting the government of Colombia on a project which aims to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable communities in the Colombian wetland region of La Mojana. To date, the GCF has disbursed approximately U.S. $ 28,6 million of their $ 38,4 million contribution towards the scaling up of climate resilient water management practices in the context of this project...
5 Oct 2024
Asian Development Bank’s call to action on Glacial Melt:
On the 24th of August, at Stockholm Water Week, The Water Diplomat caught up with Mr Lance Gore, Principal Water Resources Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to discuss the ADB’s call to action on glacial melt and the bank’s promotion of climate resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya mountains, a mountain range that stretches over 3,500 km and across eight countries in Central and South Asia...
5 Oct 2024
Recent monsoon rainfall in Nepal heaviest in over 50 years
The most intense rainfall in half a century occurred in Karnali province in Nepal in late September, resulting in flash floods and landslides in the densely populated Kathmandu valley as well as its adjoining districts, damaging infrastructure, homes, infrastructure and agricultural areas. Vulnerability in the province is high: Karnali province is known as one of the most impoverished areas of Nepal and 39,5% of its population faces multidimensional poverty...
4 Oct 2024
India requests Pakistan to review Indus Waters Treaty
On the 18th of September the government of India formally requested the Government of Pakistan to review the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), signed by the two governments in Karachi in 1960 after negotiations that stretched over nine years in total. The Indian government is reportedly requesting the review citing 'fundamental and unforeseen changes' in circumstances, such as population demographics, environmental issues, and the need for clean energy development to meet emission targets...
4 Oct 2024
Three SDG 6 indicator progress reports highlight degradation in water related ecosystems
On 27 August, the UNEP and UN-Water’s Integrated Monitoring Initiative, in collaboration with partner agencies, published three reports on topics for which UNEP is the custodian agency. These reports provide overviews of progress on respectively ambient water quality with a special focus on health, the implementation of IWRM - with a special focus on climate change, and water-related ecosystems - with a special focus on biodiversity...
4 Oct 2024
SDC looks back: Collective Lessons from the IAH Groundwater congress 2024
The International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) held the 51st edition of the world groundwater congress in Davos, Switzerland, from the 8-13th of September. The congress was organised by the Swiss Society of Hydrogeology (SSH) and the Centre for Hydrogeology and Geothermics of the University of Neuchâtel (CHYN) and brought together more than 600 participants to present scientific findings and discuss important thematic areas related to groundwater...
4 Oct 2024
UN special rapporteurs decry militarisation of water and current humanitarian situation in Gaza
On the 16th of September, three UN special rapporteurs commented on the situation in Gaza from the perspective of their different thematic mandates to advise on human rights. The human rights experts also levelled criticism at Western states for continuing to support Israel despite human rights infringements...