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5 Jul 2024
Waters rising in the Northern Aral Sea
In January 2024, Kazakhstan took over the 3-year presidency of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), a sea considered lost until a few years ago. As is the case in other parts of the world, the Aral Sea, in addition to having been the victim of overexploitation of water resources in upstream areas, is also seriously affected by the effects of climate change...
5 Jul 2024
Amid severe drought, tensions rise between the U.S. and Mexico over the waters of the Rio Grande
The southern United States and large parts of Mexico have been experiencing a severe drought for several months, leading to tensions between the countries over the delayed release of waters from Mexico into the Rio Grande. 90% of Mexico is currently affected, making the current drought the most severe of its kind since 2011...
5 Jul 2024
Up Close and Personal:
A publication by Dr Kathleen Rugel in the journal Water International has highlighted the importance of face to face interactions in obtaining consensus among a diverse group of water users in a transboundary water management setting. According to the author, the research is important in view of the daunting global challenge of meeting the ever-growing demand for fresh water while maintaining healthy environmental standards...
3 Jul 2024
Pesticide Action Network study highlights widespread PFAS pollution of waterways in Europe
Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), otherwise referred to as ‘forever chemicals’ are currently present in all European waterways. These are the findings of study published in early June by the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe), an NGO that advocates against dependence on synthetic pesticides...
3 Jul 2024
WMO’s 2024 Hydromet Gap Report Highlights Early Warning Needs for Less Developed Countries and Small Island States
On the 18th of June, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released its Hydromet Gap Report 2024, highlighting some of the key hydrological knowledge needs of 20 least-developed countries and Small Island Developing States. A key point of departure of the report is that in the context of climate change, the need for high-quality weather and climate information services underpin economic prosperity and sustainable development...
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...