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3 May 2024
Rehabilitating Beira: towards a more resilient coastal city
The coastal city of Beira in Mozambique – the country’s second largest city - is currently undergoing rehabilitation work to increase its resilience to the impact of cyclones which regularly form on the Indian Ocean, and which have a major impact on infrastructure and livelihoods in Southern Africa...
3 May 2024
International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its neighbours in Paris
One year after the commencement of the conflict in Sudan, France, Germany and the European Union organised an international humanitarian conference for Sudan and neighbouring countries. This conference brought together ministers and representatives of 58 States as well as donor agencies, United Nations agencies, regional organisations and humanitarian organisations...
3 May 2024
Conflicts emerge over water permits and water footprint of avocado production in Mexico
During the week of the 15th of April, small scale farmers and activists from Villa Madero in Michoacan, Mexico started dismantling illegal irrigation equipment and breaching water pans installed in mountain springs to supply avocado orchards. These actions were taken in protest against their perceived excessive claim on limited water supplies by the large-scale avocado farms, which has prevented water from flowing down for use by the local community...
3 May 2024
Research report provides interim overview of effects of war on water and health in Gaza
On the 24th of April, the Geneva Water Hub published a report on the effects of war-induced damage to water and sewage services on public health in Gaza since the 7th of October 2023. Piecing together available data on the changing status of these services and the concomitant effects on public health, the report also reviews the evidence from the point of view of international humanitarian law, which requires military decision-makers to consider the reasonably foreseeable impacts of their attacks...
3 May 2024
Green Climate Fund invests in increased resilience for rural communities in rural Ethiopia
The Green Climate Fund is currently entering the final phases of a project to increase the drought resilience of rural communities in Ethiopia who are facing risks in their water supplies and their livelihoods. The project, which is valued at U.S. $ 50 million with a life span of five years, is intended to reach 1...
2 May 2024
Water shortages in Bogota prompt rationing
The Colombian city of Bogota is currently facing critical water shortages, with the San Rafael reservoir that supplies 70% of the water of the city having dropped to 19% of its supply capacity. On the 15th of April, the city’s mayor Carlos Fernando Galán announced measures to reduce water consumption, whereby nine zones in the city would take turns to be cut off from water for 24 hours...
2 May 2024
Dakar Water Hub Keynote Address on Water Insecurity and Prosperity in West Africa
In the third week of April, Dr Boubacar Barry, scientific advisor to the Dakar Water Hub, presented a keynote address on water security as a constraint to - or enabler for – prosperity in West Africa. The keynote address was held at a seminar in Accra organized by the Water Resource Management Commission of the Economic Community of West African States and the International Water Management Institute...
2 May 2024
Research report provides interim overview of effects of war on water and health in Gaza
On the 24th of April, the Geneva Water Hub published a report on the effects of war induced damage to water and sewage services on public health in Gaza since the 7th of October 2023. Piecing together available data on the changing status of these services and the concomitant effects on public health, the report also reviews the evidence from the point of view of international humanitarian law, which requires military decision-makers to consider the reasonably foreseeable impacts of their attacks...
30 Apr 2024
Severe drought gripping Southern Africa
A severe drought associated with El Niño is currently affecting Southern Africa, with extremely dry and warm conditions since October 2023, leading the governments of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi to declare a state of emergency. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), El Niño effects are hitting at a time of already significant protracted unmet needs, with some 18 million people are currently experiencing crisis levels of food insecurity...
29 Apr 2024
Co-creation: a key but often ignored ingredient to successful water, sanitation and solid waste solutions
Stakeholders often know what solutions are needed and wanted for their contexts. Sometimes, they even have ideas on how to achieve them. External researchers and implementers working in development projects need to understand this, and know when, how and where this is crucial. This was the overarching message that resonated in two workshops held during the Uganda Water and Environmental Week a few weeks ago in Kampala...
25 Apr 2024
World Fish migration foundation reports record numbers of dams removed from European Rivers
On the 15th of April a coalition of organisations operating under the name ‘Dam Removal Europe’ reported an all-time record in the removal of barriers from European rivers. In 2023, across 15 European countries, at least 487 barriers were removed, compared to 325 in 2022. Just four countries accounted for a very large proportion (83%) of these removals: France accounted for the removal of 156 barriers, Spain removed 95, Sweden removed 81 and Denmark removed 72...
24 Apr 2024
Mexico running behind on scheduled water deliveries to U.S. amid severe drought
Currently, in the fourth year of a five year cycle of water deliveries, Mexico has only delivered 30% of the water that it shares with the United States in terms of a treaty from 1944. This is the lowest amount of water delivered to the United States at this point in the cycle since 1992. Waters entering the Rio Grande below Fort Quitman are apportioned to the United States or Mexico by terms set out in the treaty...