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17 Dec 2020 Glasgow, Scotland

US Will Host A Climate Summit In First Quarter Of 2021

United States President-elect Joe Biden has announced that the US will host a climate summit of the world’s major economies before the end of March 2021. Biden has already committed the US re-joining the Paris Climate Agreement on the day of his inauguration in January.The announcement follows a virtual "Climate Ambition Summit" co-hosted by the UN, the United Kingdom, Britain, France, Italy, and Chile on 12-13 Decmber which was organised to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris accord and was held in lieu of the originally-scheduled COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, which will now happen in November 2021...

8 Dec 2020 MEXICO CITY

Mexico Announces Economic Recovery Infrastructure Investment Plan

Mexico announced Monday new investment of $11.3 billion in infrastructure projects in cooperation with the private sector to help revive the pandemic-afflicted economy. The 228-billion-peso plan is the second of its kind since October, when 297 billion pesos of investments were unveiled to boost Latin America's second-largest economy...

5 Aug 2020 LA PAZ

Mexico Environmental Organisations Want Answers About Water Resources For New Real Estate Development

A group of non-profit organizations wants the municipal council in La Paz, Baja California Sur, to explain where the water and other services will come from to serve new real estate developments that have been announced in the area. At least nine environmental organizations, have, for the second time, asked La Paz Mayor Rubén Muñoz Álvarez to take into account the city’s water shortage when considering approving real estate projects.

20 Jul 2020 MEXICO CITY, Mexico

More Protests by Mexican Farmers As US Demands Mexico Makes Up Rio Grande Water-sharing Deficit

This news article was updated 22 JulyThe head of the United States section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) issued a formal statement, 9 July, that Mexico is in violation of the 1944 Water Treaty between Mexico and the US, and requested immediate action to restore its obligations under the treaty...

30 Mar 2020 MEXICO CITY, Mexico

Mexico Protesters Succeed In Blocking Plan To Transfer Water To United States

Following protests, The National Water Commission of Mexico (CONAGUA) appears to have backed down on a plan to divert water to the United States under terms of a 1944 bi-lateral treaty. The company tweeted 26 March that it had taken the decision to stop the additional water diversion from the La Boquilla dam in the nothern Chihuahua State due to farmers’ rejection of the move...

11 Nov 2019 EDINBURGH, Scotland

TUNE IN TODAY For "AquaNow Audience: The Future Of Water Stewardship"

Tune in 4.30 PM UK time TODAY Monday 11 November HERE for the next “aquaNOW Audience”!The event will be livestreamed HERE (LINK)The Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, will host the interactive panel discussion, produced by OOSKAnews and supported by “Scotland, the Hydro Nation”, engaging international water experts and Scottish expertise in global water-related challenges and solutions, filmed before a live audience and streamed online to a global viewership, with the theme "The Future Of Water Stewardship"...

5 Nov 2019 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom

"The Future Of Water Stewardship": aquaNOW Audience 11 November

Tune in 4.30 PM UK time Monday 11 November HERE for the next “aquaNOW Audience”!The Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh, Scotland, will host the interactive panel discussion, produced by OOSKAnews, engaging international water experts and Scottish expertise in global water-related challenges and solutions, filmed before a live audience and streamed online to a global viewership, with the theme "The Future Of Water Stewardship"...

15 Sep 2019 ABERDEEN, Scotland

aquaNOW Audience: "The Philosophy of a Hydro-Nation"

Scotland’s James Hutton Institute hosted the first of a new series of aquaNOW Audiences 11 September, at the Institute’s spectacular Craigiebuckler campus home of world-leading environmental research. The video of the aquaNOW Audience CAN BE VIEWED HERE. An eclectic international and Scottish panel discussed opportunities offered by the recent announcement that Glasgow, Scotland, will co-host the 2020 UN Climate Change conference (COP 26, the Scottish COP?); the role of nation states in addressing global water, and water-related challenges; the "value of water"; ways to engage popular and political discourse around water resources management beyond the "water industry"...

17 Apr 2019 MEXICO CITY

Six Imprisoned Water Rights Activists Freed By Mexican Government

The Mexican government has freed six activists who fought to protect their community's water supply, acknowledging that their rights were "seriously violated" during more than a dozen years in jail. The six activists from the town of Tlanixco had been sentenced to up to 50 years for the death of a Spanish flower grower...

22 Mar 2019 DENVER CO, United States

Western US States Agree Drought Plan For Sharing, Reduction Of Use, Of Troubled Colorado River

Following about 20 years of drought and shrinkage in available Colorado River water resources, negotiators for seven Western states (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California) and federal authorities agreed March 19 to a new sharing plan including voluntary conservation measures...

6 Dec 2018 KATOWICE, Poland

Veolia Exec Fauchon Is WWC Prez Again

The Board of Governors of the World Water Council (WWC) has unanimously elected Loïc Fauchon as its new president, succeding Brazilian Benedito Braga. Fauchon was previously WWC president from 2005 to 2012, and has now been re-elected in 2018. Fauchon is also president of Eaux de Marseille in France, a subsidiary of Veolia, the international water and waste conglomerate...

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4 Dec 2018 Washington DC, United States

Cities In Emerging Markets Have Potential To Attract $30 Trillion USD In Climate-related Investment

Cities in emerging markets have the potential to attract more than $29.4 Trillion USD in cumulative climate-related investments by 2030 according to a new report from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).The report, released November 29, assesses the climate investment opportunity available across six key sectors in Jakarta, Rajkot, Belgrade, Amman, Nairobi, and Mexico City...