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15 Jan 2020 DAKAR, Senegal

Senegal's World Water Forum Will Focus On "Water Security For Peace And Development"

The World Water Council (WWC), host country Senegal and host city Dakar have announced plans for the ninth triennial World Water Forum, scheduled for 22-27 March 2021 with the theme “Water Security for Peace and Development”.The event is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa and will focus on the United Nations 2030 Agenda for transformative action...

8 Jun 2016 ASUNCION

Regional Summit to Discuss Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas

Experts are meeting in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay from 8 to 9 June to discuss how to reduce the risks of disasters in the Americas and to consider how the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction can be best implemented.

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27 May 2016 SINGAPORE

Climate Resilience in Urban Water Policy

The concept of “water resilience” appears everywhere from the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk reduction to national and city policy statements.Senior Research Fellow Olivia Jensen, who spoke at a recent forum at the Institute of Water Policy in Singapore, analyzed the water industry in London, Rotterdam and Singapore to determine how the goal of resilience translated into policy instruments, the extent to which governance mode influences policy design, and whether certain governance modes are better suited to effective resilience policy design...

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13 May 2016 GENEVA, Switzerland

Natural Disasters Displaced Over 19 Million in 2015

Disasters such as drought, sea level rise and desertification drove 19.2 million people in 113 countries from their homes in 2015, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center’s 2016 Global Report on Internal Displacement.Disasters triggered by natural hazards caused twice as many new displacements in 2015 as conflict and violence, according to the report, produced by the Norwegian Refugee Council...

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23 Nov 2015 NEW YORK, NY, United States

UN Secretary General Highlights Link Between Water, Disaster Resilience

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an integrated approach to water management and disaster risk reduction.Speaking at a meeting on the issue, held last week as part of the UN High-Level Water and Sanitation Days 2015, Ban noted that “issues of water and disaster resilience are so intimately related that it is impossible to think of one without the other...

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