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8 Dec 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Non-profit "Water Finance Exchange" To Address Rural US Water Infrastructure Funding Gap

Leading impact investors and water experts have launched a new non-profit "Water Finance Exchange" (WFX) to address funding gaps in the water sector in the United States. The specific aim is to help meet the growing needs of small and mid-sized utilities across the US by supplementing public and private financing sources with philanthropic funds at the community level...

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22 Nov 2020 WASHINGTON, United States

Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership Describes Water Crisis Solutions

The 2020 Annual Report of the Global Water Security Partnership (GWSP) describes activities and impacts achieved for the twelve months through June 2020.The partnership acknowledges that COVID-19 had a significant impact on its activities and that resources were redirected to helping partners contend with both short- and long-term effects of the pandemic from March 2020...

17 Nov 2020 VICTORIA FALLS, Zimbabwe

Southern Africa Ministers Approve Water-Energy-Food Governance Framework

Ministers for water and energy from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have approved a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Governance Framework, which was developed by SADC aided by The Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWPSA), at a meeting on 30 October.The WEF-Nexus project aims to support the transformation required to meet increasing water, energy, and food security demand in a context of climate change in the SADC region, through the development of an integrated nexus approach...

10 Nov 2020 TUNIS, Tunisia

New Partnership Will Address Water Stress, Climate Change In North Africa

A new partnership between international NGO the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) and the French Development Agency (AFD) aims to promote a more open dialogue of public policies and to foster regional knowledge sharing on issues and solutions that deal with water stress, declining agricultural yields and the increase of extreme weather events...

6 Oct 2020 Geneva, Switzerland

Helping Companies And Investors Turn Water Risk Into Resilience

With climate change worsening the world’s water crises, new forward-looking scenarios produced by international conservation and environmental organization WWF estimate that almost half of global GDP could come from areas facing high water risk by 2050.Available live from 6 October in the WWF Water Risk Filter – a leading online tool for assessing, valuing and responding to water risk – a new functionality maps three scenarios (Optimistic, Current Trend and Pessimistic) for 2030 and 2050 designed to help companies and investors better understand future water risks and drive more effective corporate action on climate and water resilience...

29 Sep 2020 PASADENA CA, United States

Space Project To Map Arid Regions, Seek Underground Freshwater

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) will combine efforts to explore arid environments to discover and monitor underground sources of freshwater.Using radar technology similar to that deployed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the project will examine the earth’s driest ecosystems, whether in the hot stretches of sand (a desert) or the cold expanses of ice as evidenced at either pole...

9 Jul 2020 CORVALLIS OR, United States

Partnership Aims To Accelerate Shift To Resilient Infrastructure

A new partnership between the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and The Resilience Shift aims to boost global efforts to accelerate a shift to more resilient infrastructure. The alliance will build on the partners’ respective desires to develop mechanisms to advance resilience implementation and the level of understanding around water and resilience more broadly...

6 Jul 2020 DUSHANBE, Tajikistan

Cooperative Water Distribution Initiative Fosters Peace Along Isfara River

The United Nations’ Cross-border Cooperation for Sustainable Pease and Development programme is yielding successful results in modernising water management along the Isfara River running between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.The project, involving six pilot cross-border communities, uses modern technology and software to monitor what crops are grown and how much and where water is distributed...

16 Jun 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

2023 Lunar Rover Will Map Moon's Water Resources In Advance Of Future Human Missions

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), which will be deployed on the Moon in late 2023 to prospect for water ice that could support future human missions, will be delivered by US space robotics technology Astrobotic Technology...

9 Jun 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Improve Water Supply, Decrease Ocean Plastic

A new report from the United Nations’ High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy (HLP) suggests that improving water supply, especially in developing nations, would have a significant positive effect on the amount of plastic waste dumped in oceans.The problem of extensive plastic waste in oceans, largely exposed in recent years, has led to widespread efforts to clean up what is already there...

29 May 2020 EDINBURGH, Scotland

"Water and Resilient Cities": An aquaNOW Audience

Livestreamed and Recorded 27 May, 2020 - CLICK HERE to watch "Water and Resilient Cities", an aquaNOW AudienceOur world will have an estimated 2 billion new urban residents by 2050, so how do we make our cities more resilient in a water context? We need cities that can absorb, recover and prepare for future stresses and hazards while promoting sustainable development, well-being and inclusive growth, deploying environmental, governmental, economical and societal tools at our disposal...

19 May 2020 MUMBAI, India

“Blue Peace Voices” Series: Further Episodes Released

This OOSKAnews article was updated 29 May.A series of nine interesting "Blue Peace Voices", short video presentations by global participants in the Blue Peace movement, were released in May.Background:Ilmas Futehally, Executive Director of Strategic Foresight Group (SFG), introduces this programme [SEE LINKS IN ARTICLE BELOW] of filmed “Blue Peace Voices”, in a series launched by the Mumbai-headquartered think-tank earlier this month...