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7 Dec 2020 LONDON, United Kingdom

New Tool Helps Countries Track Changes In Surface Water Supply

A new tool from the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) will enable countries around the world keep track of changes in surface water supply.The tool uses processed imagery from the Global Surface Water Explorer dataset, developed by the United Nations, the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Google, transforming information into tables and maps, which can be used by governments to create clear measurements to show changes over time...

4 Dec 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

Reactions To John Kerry As New US "Climate Czar"

United States President-elect Joe Biden’s appointment of John Kerry as “climate czar” has been met with praise as Kerry is a leading architect of the Paris (2015) climate agreement. In addition, former Secretary of State Kerry is viewed to have the experience and stature to negotiate with other state leaders when the US rejoins the agreement in 2021...

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...

1 Sep 2020 STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Japan Team Lands 2020 Stockholm Junior Water Prize

HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden awarded the Stockholm Junior Water Prize 2020 to Hiroki Matsuhashi and Takuma Miyaki of Japan in an online ceremony during an unusual "World Water Week at Home" 25 August.The Japanese team focused on water conservation and soil management and developed a method to control soil runoff and increase food production, using traditional Japanese soil solidification technologies...

31 Aug 2020 MOUNTAINVIEW CA

Google Campuses Achieve Alliance For Water Stewardship Certification

Google has achieved the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) certification at its Mountain View, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif., and Dublin, Ireland campuses under the AWS Standard. Earning AWS certification for commercial office space demonstrates a company’s commitment to understanding the complex issues and opportunities within the watersheds it operates and to work with local stakeholders to achieve the five outcomes of water stewardship to include: sustainable water balance, good water quality, good water governance, the healthy status of important water-related areas (rivers, marshes, etc...

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...

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...

14 Dec 2016 ISPRA

New Global Surface Water Exploration Tool

The European Commission Joint Research Centre, in cooperation with Google Switzerland GmbH, have developed a new water dataset in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. This maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 32 years and provides statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces...

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...

11 Aug 2016 JOHANNESBURG

16-Year-Old Fights Drought Using Orange Peels

A 16-year-old schoolgirl from Johannesburg, South Africa has invented a super material that will fight drought. Kiara Nirghin's "No More Thirsty Crops" project has recently won the Google Science Fair's Community Impact Award for the Middle East and Africa.

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