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7 Nov 2021 GLASGOW, United Kingdom

Water And Climate Coalition Launches In Glasgow

The governments of Tajikistan and Hungary are spearheading a new water and climate coalition, announced at COP26, to create an integrated monitoring framework on water and climate and to help diffuse tensions between countries and regions over access to and control over water resources.

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...

26 Mar 2020 BRUSSELS, Belgium

EU invests $1.5 Billion USD In Green Infrastructure

The European Commission has approved a $1.5 Billion USD funding package for large European infrastructure projects including flood safety and sustainable water management projects.The investment aims to boost economies of seven Member States at the same time as protecting the environment and improving citizens’ quality of life and social well-being...

11 Feb 2020 Barcelona, Spain

Water Disinfection Processes And The Link To Bladder Cancer

Five percent of all bladder cancer cases in the European Union (EU) can be attributed to chemicals found in the disinfection process of water.A new report from the Barcelona institute for Health (ISG Global) found that 6,500 cases in the EU can be linked to trihalomethane (THM). THMs are a group of compounds that include chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane and bromoform...

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26 Jan 2020 BUDAPEST

Hungary: Nature-based Water Management Measures Operational

At Püspökszilágy, a small settlement nestled in the Cserhát Hills of in northern Hungary with just under 900 inhabitants, sudden, intense precipitation events cause flash-flooding every two to five years. Under the LIFE-MICACC Project, we have created a 1 ha side-reservoir beside the Szilágyi Stream which helps retain water from flash-flood events...

16 Dec 2019 PARIS

Suez To Expand Hungary Wastewater Treatment Footprint

Suez Water Technologies and Solutions, a leading French multinational corporation in energy waste management, has announced plans to invest 9.6 billion forints (29 million euros) to develop its plant in Oroszlány, northwestern Hungary. Speaking at a press conference on December 10, the Hungarian foreign affairs and trade minister Péter Szijjártó said that it was a great acknowledgement for Hungary’s water management industry that one of the world’s leading companies in the field had decided to invest in the country again.

7 Nov 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary

Global High Level Panel On Water And Peace Activities: Update

At October's Budapest Water Summit, the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace (GHLPWP) gathered two years after the publication of its milestone report "A Matter of Survival"formally launched in Geneva and presented in New York at the UN General Assembly in September 2017. The event was facilitated by the Geneva Water Hub acting as the Secretariat of the Panel...

23 Oct 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary

Water Diplomacy Talks -- Monika Weber-Fahr, Global Water Partnership

Monika Weber-Fahr, Executive Secretary of Global Water Partnership (GWP), talks to David Duncan, OOSKAnews / The Water Diplomat on the sidelines of the October 2019 Budapest Water Summit in this video interview (LINK). Weber-Fahr and Duncan discuss the summit's theme "Preventing Water Crises" and GWP's recently launched strategy position paper "Mobilising for a Water Secure World", particularly water solutions relating to achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6; climate change resistant development; transboundary water cooperation...

21 Oct 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary

"Budapest Appeal" Addresses "Whats" And "Hows" Of Water Challenges, Water Security

The third Budapest Water Summit concluded 17 October with the presentation of an outcome document, "The Budapest Appeal".The purpose of the document is to collate views from the political and technical communities in order to raise the profile of water, especially with a view to increasing political will to address water challenges and water security...

21 Oct 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary

Global High Level Panel On Water And Peace Activities Reviewed

At October's Budapest Water Summit, the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace (GHLPWP) gathered two years after the publication of its milestone report "A Matter of Survival" formally launched in Geneva and presented in New York at the UN General Assembly in September 2017. The event was facilitated by the Geneva Water Hub acting as the Secretariat of the Panel...

16 Oct 2019 BUDAPEST, Hungary

International Water Summit: "Preventing Water Crises"

Several hundred politicians, bankers, businessmen, investors and scientists gathered in Budapest, Hungary, this week to discuss challenges of emerging water crises – issues concerning abundant, scarce and polluted waters – and their social, economic, environmental and political consequences.The 2019 Budapest Water Summit, the city’s third, convened 15-17 October under the auspices of Hungary’s President Janos Adler, with the theme “Preventing Water Crises”, took place halfway between the 2018 Brasilia and the 2021 Dakar World Water Fora and aimed to build on and contribute further to work conducted by the United Nations, the European Union, the World Water Council, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Bank Group and other organizations...

10 Jun 2019 SZEGED

Climate Change Brings Sorghum Farming Back To Europe

Ferenc Kardos planted 300 hectares of sorghum instead of corn this year. From the fertile Hungarian plain where he lives all the way to southeastern France, the hot weather cereal is taking root in Europe. "With corn, we suffered losses three out of five years due to drought," said Kardos, the crop manager of a 3,000-hectare (30-square kilometre) farm without irrigation in southern Hungary, part of the Carpathian Basin which is increasingly exposed to extreme temperatures, pushing farmers to adapt crops to global warming.