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7 Nov 2024
From Stockholm to COP 29: A conversation with Bapon Fakhruddin, Water and Climate Leader at the Green Climate Fund and Henk Ovink, Executive Director of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water
On the 16th of October, The Water Diplomat caught up with Bapon Fakhruddin and Henk Ovink for an in depth conversation about about water on the global agenda, from Stockholm Water Week to COP 29. 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...
7 Nov 2024
The successful restoration of the Monavale Vlei wetland in Zimbabwe
Since 2001, a small wetland restoration project in the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare, has been protecting water sources and biodiversity. On the 10th of October, Mongabay, an American conservation news portal, reported that thanks to the efforts of local organisations, the wetland area remains a provider of many ecosystem services, including water storage, groundwater recharge and water purification...
7 Nov 2024
Ensuring more Effective Climate Action with a Nexus Approach
On the 24th of October during the 10th session of the Meeting of Parties to the Water Convention in Ljubljana, a side event was held on the ‘Nexus Approach’ for climate action in the context of the Task Force on Water, Food and Energy and Ecosystems Nexus under the Water Convention. The Task Force, led by Finland, aims to identify potential synergies between economic sectors that can be explored and utilised in selected transboundary river basins...
5 Nov 2024
Danish Companies to Tackle Water Challenges: UN Water’s SDG6 Report Sparks Action Through Africa Strategy
The profile of water security is currently rising fast on the international political arena, but are actions and implementations following suit? UN-Water has released a midterm evaluation of the progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) on water and sanitation, highlighting how far behind we currently “ensuring access to water and sanitation for all" by 2030...
5 Nov 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...
5 Nov 2024
Mid-term status of SDG Indicator 6.5.2, with a special focus on Climate Change
On October 1st, UN-Water announced the publication of the third progress report on transboundary water cooperation, which is monitored globally with the use of indicator 6.5.2, tracking cooperation between countries on shared river and lake basins as well as aquifers. In the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) on water and sanitation, countries provide regular progress updates on eleven separate indicators, each representing a different aspect of the global goal...
5 Nov 2024
Green Climate Fund approves its first climate-resilient water project in Iraq
On 24 October the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a USD 39 million FAO-led project, which is aimed at improving water and food security in Iraq’s rural areas with climate-resilient agriculture. The six-year FAO-led project is the first GCF water project in Iraq, with more than 1.9 million beneficiaries, including highly vulnerable communities...
1 Nov 2024
New data from the Joint Monitoring Program show global progress on WASH in health care facilities
Background The World Health Organisation/United Nations Children’s Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has published their 2024 data update , with a special focus on WASH and Primary Health Care (PHC). Ensuring an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation, the report states, has long been seen as integral to PHC...
1 Nov 2024
Second consecutive hottest summer on record increases likelihood of conflict
According to a press release by the Water Peace and Security Partnership (WPS), the unprecedented heat during the course of this year has heightened the likelihood of water-related violent conflict and humanitarian crises. UN-IHE reported in October that July 22, 2024, was the hottest day ever recorded, a day which also fell during the second consecutive hottest a (northern hemisphere) summer on record...
1 Nov 2024
Ministers and Development Partners advance Cooperation on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin
On the 22nd of October, a second high-level session was held on the regional initiative for cross-border cooperation on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB). This initiative is seen as a flagship for transboundary cooperation on shared aquifers both at the African level and in the trajectory to the 2026 UN Water Conference...
31 Oct 2024
Investing in IWRM for sustained access to Water and Sanitation
About 1.3 million inhabitants of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, are dependent on two reservoirs located at 32km from the city. These reservoirs are fed by the Upper Great Akaki (UGA) Sub-Catchment, which is increasingly affected by land degradation, rapid urbanization, and inadequate water management practices...
31 Oct 2024
New Outbreak of Cholera in Sudan’s Central and Eastern States
An outbreak of cholera was officially declared on 12 August 2024 by Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, after a new wave of cholera cases was reported beginning on 22 July 2024. Between 22 July and 8 October, 21,288 cases, including 626 deaths, were reported across eight states in Sudan. Cholera is especially spreading fast in eastern Sudan, that has recently been affected by heavy rainfalls and floods, and is sheltering millions of people displaced by the conflict between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...