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29 Sep 2020 PARIS, France

International Network of Basin Organisations: Webinar 13 October

Current environment crises such as wild forest fires in California and the Brazilian Pantanal, drought in the lower Mekong River, and floods in Senegal are all examples of disasters that are warnings about the dramatic consequences of climate change.Global funding to implement adaptation measures is insufficient...

2 Sep 2020 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil

Latin American Countries Cooperate In Innovative Plan To Tackle Climate Change In Arid Regions

A new project was launched in August to enable people in the semiarid regions of Latin America to work together to share knowledge, address the climate crisis, and find more sustainable and humane ways to live.The DAKI-Semiárido Vivo Project (or Dryland Adaptation Knowledge Initiative), launched in August, will focus on three dry areas of Latin America most vulnerable to the effects of climate change: Gran Chaco Americano (in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia), the Central American Dry Corridor and the semiarid region of north-eastern Brazil...

1 Sep 2020 SANA'A, Yemen

Rain And Flash Floods Leave 300,000 Homeless In Yemen

Three months of torrential rain and flash floods have left an estimated 300,000 people homeless in war-torn Yemen, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said 28 August.Many of those people newly displaced by the floods had already been forced to flee their homes because of the ongoing conflict in the country...

6 Jul 2020 BEIJING, China

China Releases Water From Three Gorges Dam To Alleviate Flooding As Torrential Rains Persist

China's Ministry of Water Resources upgraded its emergency response for flood control from Level Four to Level Three on 4 July, as incessant rains continue across the country. Level One is the highest level of response.Water levels in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as well as Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake have been rising as a result of sustained rainfall...

26 Mar 2019 NAIROBI

Google, UNEP Partnership Will Make Water Data Globally Accessible

Water scarcity is widely considered to be the next major issue impacting the world over the coming years. One way to start tackling the problem is by getting a better understanding of current conditions. Google has partnered with UN Environment and others to provide free and open data on the natural resource around the world...

18 Jul 2018 NEW YORK, NY

UNEP And Google Announce Collaboration On Mapping Water-Related Ecosystems

UN Environment (UNEP) and Google announced a global partnership July 16 that aims to expand what the world knows about the impacts of human activity on global ecosystems.Long term, the partnership hopes to establish a platform for open-source data and analysis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals...

3 Jul 2018 MANILA, Philippines

Climate Change Expert Challenges "Fake News" About Disappearing Philippines Cities

Reports from online "news" sources claiming that global warming will lead to seven Philippine cities disappearing underwater in a “few” or “several” years have been challenged by a leading Philippine climate change expert, AFP reports, saying that Asian Development Bank (ADB) research cited in the posts does not support the dramatic claim, nor does the report used to guide global climate policies...

24 Apr 2018 WARRENTON, VA

Now It’s The Water – Porn Nexus

Mashable reports that pornography hub RedTube hopes to encourage people to think about the water crisis with its "Save Water Challenge." An app available on Google Play — and out soon on iOS — tracks the length of your daily showers. The shorter the shower, the more points you'll get. If you meet a certain number of points, RedTube will award you with a week of its premium subscription so that you can watch all the porn you want...

27 Apr 2017 CHARLESTON, SC

Google Under Fire for Aquifer Withdrawals in South Carolina

"Water wars" are erupting in South Carolina, and the withdrawals by high-tech companies like Google are increasingly controversial. Google apparently uses one-tenth of the daily supply — about 4 million gallons - to cool the servers at its only South Carolina data center, in Goose Creek according to the local Press and Courier...

12 Aug 2016 DENVER, CO, United States

OOSKAnews Voices: Harnessing the Power of the Crowd -- Who Reinvents the Water Sector?

OOSKAnews Voices is a series of guest “opinion columns” on water, written by senior participants in different parts of the international water community. The columns provide a global platform for organizations and individuals to promulgate their views and messages.Will Sarni, Director and Practice Leader Water Strategy at Deloitte Consulting LLP, calls for 21st Centry Solutions to water challenges...

23 Feb 2016 ALEXANDRIA, VA, United States

OOSKAnews Voices: Real-Time Precipitation Estimates in Data-Sparse Regions

OOSKAnews Voices is a new series of guest “opinion columns” on water, written by senior participants in different parts of the international water community. The columns provide a global platform for organizations and individuals to promulgate their views and messages.In this piece, William S Logan, PhD, Deputy Director of the International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management (ICIWaRM), discusses the tools being developed to help individuals and water managers in developing countries with precipitation estimation and flood and drought monitoring and forecasting...

17 Jun 2015 WASHINGTON, DC, United States

New PPP to Promote Climate Change Resilience in Developing Countries

The American Red Cross, the US government and eight other organizations have launched a new public-private partnership to promote climate change resilience in developing countries.The Climate Services for Resilient Development initiative is starting off with $34 million USD in funding from participating partners...

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