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2 Sep 2020 STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Urban Water Resilience Under COVID-19: What Happens Next?

A Stockholm World Water Week session on “Urban Water Resilience Under COVID-19: What happens next?" on August 27 brought together water system leaders primarily from cities in the global south to focus on the challenges and corresponding lessons learned in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.In the context of the current world health crisis, the session was convened virtually under the event's 2020 rubric "WaterWeek@Home"...

1 Sep 2020 NEW YORK NY, United States

Funding Partnership Will Support 3.7 Million Sudanese With Water And Food Security

The Green Climate Fund, the government of Sudan, and the United Nations Development Programme have approved new funding for innovative climate resilience with a focus to promote agriculture, health and food and water security.The five-year project totalling approximately US$41.1 Million USD will introduce new climate-resilient farming practices and training as well as provide funding for rehabilitation of land for sustainable use, construct infrastructure for water storage, build wells and deliver equipment...

25 Aug 2020 Washington DC, United States

Valuing The Climate Mitigation And Adaptation Benefits Of Wetlands

Experts in climate change and nature-based solutions (NBS) are calling for wetlands to play a much larger role in countries’ climate mitigation efforts going forward. The Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) and Wetlands International suggest in a new report that now is the most important time to properly value wetlands for their carbon storage potential, as countries are in the midst of revising and updating their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement on climate change"Locking Carbon in Wetlands: Enhancing Climate Action by Including Wetlands in NDCs", produced with support from German Development Agency GIZ, is written for policymakers and national climate planners to provide the scientific rationale behind the integral role of wetlands — and especially peatlands — within the global carbon cycle...

25 Aug 2020 Damascus, Syria

Civil Society Groups Appeal To UN As Key Syria Water Station Disabled Again In Conflict Zone

For the eighth time since October 2019, actions by Turkey and Sunni rebel allies cut water service from the Allouk (Alok) pumping station in Syria, 13 August.While flow from the station was partially restored 23 August, potable water supply has not yet been restored to parts of Al-Hasakeh city which is under control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is considered by Turkey to be a terrorist group...

24 Aug 2020 Stockholm, Sweden

OOSKAnews Voices - Stress Testing The Resilience Of Cities: The COVID-19 Shock And The Vital Role of Water

OOSKAnews Voices is a series of guest columns written by participants in different parts of the international water community.  In this article, Dr. Fred Boltz discusses the resilience of our cities and the vital role of water in the context of the COVID-19 shock, and looks forward to a 27 August World Water Week at Home (#WWWeek) session “Urban Water Resilience Under COVID-19: What happens next"?    Boltz heads Resolute Development Solutions, a consulting firm specialized in the design and execution of conservation and sustainable development programs...

24 Aug 2020 Bangkok, Thailand

China PM Pledges Improved Mekong River Water Data Sharing

The Prime Minister of China has said that his country is willing to share more Mekong River water data with fellow members of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) organisation which consists of China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam."China is willing to offer more assistance within its capacity to other Lancang-Mekong countries for better utilizing water resources," Prime Minister Li Keqiang said in a 24 August video conference with leadership from the other organization members, Chinese state media reported...

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...

14 May 2020 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom

REMINDER! TUNE IN 27 MAY! aquaNOW Audience, "Water and Resilient Cities"

This OOSKAnews Article was updated 20 MayOur 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...

12 May 2020 KABUL, Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Human Migration, Groundwater Extraction And The Opium Crop

Rapid transformation of former desert areas in southwest Afghanistan has affected the population residing there, threatening long-term viability of this population’s livelihood.“When the Water Runs Out: The Rise (and Inevitable Fall) of the Deserts of Southwest Afghanistan and its Impact on Migration, Poppy and Stability”, a paper published 30 April by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) focuses on the factors that led to migration into this region, permanent settlement and transformation of the desert...

26 Jan 2020 WASHINGTON DC, United States

One Percent Of Global GDP Can Secure Clean Water For All: Report

New research launched on January 21 from World Resources Institute (WRI) has found that securing clean and available water for all by 2030 is achievable and might cost as little as $0.29 USD per person per day from 2015 through 2030. This amounts to about 1 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...

10 Sep 2019 MUMBAI, India

Blue Peace Bulletin - "Water And Violence: Interview With Danilo Turk"

The Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace was launched in 2015 with the task of developing a set of proposals aimed at strengthening the global framework to prevent and resolve water-related conflicts, facilitating the use of water as an important factor of building peace and enhancing the relevance of water issues in national and global policy making...

5 Jun 2019 BERKELEY CA, United States

New Tool Enables Smart Decisions In Watershed Management

Computer and environmental researchers in the United States are developing a computational tool that will allow groundwater and surface water managers to plan management of water resources more sustainably at watershed level.A team from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working on a simulation tool that would facilitate understanding of water resources and assessing surface and groundwater vulnerability at the watershed level...

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