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1 Oct 2020 THE HAGUE, Netherlands

Human Rights And Water Security In Our Uncertain Times

The latest in a series of guest columns written for OOSKAnews and The Water Diplomat by participants in different parts of the international water community. In this article, Tobias Schmitz discusses human rights, water security and climate change in advance of a 13 October UNDP-SIWI Water Governance Facility high-level webinar on the subject...

24 Aug 2020 Bangkok, Thailand

China PM Pledges Improved Mekong River Water Data Sharing

The Prime Minister of China has said that his country is willing to share more Mekong River water data with fellow members of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) organisation which consists of China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam."China is willing to offer more assistance within its capacity to other Lancang-Mekong countries for better utilizing water resources," Prime Minister Li Keqiang said in a 24 August video conference with leadership from the other organization members, Chinese state media reported...

15 Apr 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Did China Mekong Water Hoarding Exacerbate 2019 Drought?

Actions by China have been described as compounding a 2019 Mekong River drought that had severe impacts on livelihoods in downstream nations. China is accused in an April 2020 US government-funded study of restricting water flow from 11 upstream dams, affecting approximately 60 million people live in the Lower Mekong where agriculture and fishing are the principal sources of support...

25 Feb 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Water And Trump's Middle East Peace Plan

United States President Donald Trump’s long-awaited “Peace Plan” for the Middle East, revealed 28 January, has come under fire for disregarding the political and economic needs of occupied Palestine and lack of recognition or acknowledgement of one of the most contentious issues that abounds throughout the region: allocation of water resources...

19 Feb 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

USAID Restructure Of Resilience Programmes

Christine Gottschalk, director of the Centre for Resilience at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has described restructure of the agency's resilience programmes as conducive to "...really thinking about shocks and stresses as perennial features and not anomalies...This is really about knowing that [droughts and floods are] going to happen...

12 Feb 2020 Washington DC, United States

GERD Technical Committee Has Not Yet Reached Agreement

Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the United States has said that a technical committee from Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan has not been able to co-produce a document that could lead to agreement on the controversial Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam.Further OOSKAnews coverage of GERD (51 Articles)The ministers of foreign affairs and water affairs from the three countries held talks in January with their legal and technical experts in Washington DC with the US government and the World Bank are acting as observers...

5 Feb 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Climate Change, Conflict, And Human Displacement

In 2018, over 17 million people were displaced from their homes, with over 90 percent fleeing weather and climate-related disasters according to The United Nations Office for Disaster Relief Reduction (UNODRR) which reported 3 February that while, for example, there were 1,600 recorded disasters, the real number is probably much higher...

29 Jan 2020 MOGADISHU, Somalia

$1.03 Billion USD Required For Somalia Humanitarian Response Plan

The United Nations and the government of Somalia have launched a new humanitarian response plan (HRP) to provide emergency services and support to over 3 million people. The plan, announced 22 January, aims to deliver safe water to more than 1.2 million, provide food and non-food assistance to 2.1 million people, support access to education for more than 300,000 children, and provide health assistance to 2...

29 Jan 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

“Last Round” of GERD Talks This Week In Washington

Another two-day round of tripartite meetings between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the contentious Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) commenced in Washington, DC 28 January. Talks were supposed to be concluded mid this month but were deferred after failure to reach final consensusMinisters of Foreign Affairs and Irrigation from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met 14 January in Washington to discuss continuing differences around timing and technical regulations regarding filling and operation of the $ 4 Billion USD Nile dam, hosted by United States Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and included World Bank President David Malpass...

26 Jan 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

One Percent Of Global GDP Can Secure Clean Water For All: Report

New research launched on January 21 from World Resources Institute (WRI) has found that securing clean and available water for all by 2030 is achievable and might cost as little as $0.29 USD per person per day from 2015 through 2030. This amounts to about 1 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

25 Oct 2019 Washington DC, United States

Remarkable US Army Climate Change Report Studies Conflict Risk, What Caused Syria War, Bangladesh Risk, Geo-engineering!

A combination of global starvation, war, drought and disease could have devastating effects on world security according to a report from several United States agencies including the US Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA, under the rubric of the United States Army War College.The study, “Implications of Climate Change for the U...

22 Oct 2019 VIENNA, Austria

Water Footprint Of European Power Production Measured

A new European Union (EU) report calls for increased investment in solar, wind and other renewable power sources to improve water use efficiency in electricity generation.Energy security for the EU is a priority of the European Commission. Researchers from the EU's Joint Research Center, published 18 October, indicates that although both blue and green water resources are increasingly scarce, the EU currently does not explicitly account for water resource use in its energy related policies...

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