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28 Nov 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland
World Is "Alarmingly Off-track" To Deliver Sanitation Goals
On World Toilet Day, 19 November, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched a report on global sanitation conditions and provided an assessment of investment required in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 in the next 10 years.In 2015, Member States committed to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations, by 2030...
18 Oct 2020 TOKYO, Japan
Ocean Release Of Fukushima Water Carries Risk Of Damaging Human DNA
This news article was updated 25 OctoberEnvironmental group Greenpeace has claimed that the 1.23 million metric tons of water stored at the plant -- scene of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster -- contains "dangerous" levels of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 and other "hazardous" radionuclides, which it says will have "serious long-term consequences for communities and the environment" if the water is released into the Pacific Ocean...
5 Mar 2020 KATHMANDU, Nepal
Holistic Approach Required To Secure Safe Water Supply In Himalayan Towns
A new study covering 13 towns across four countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region shows that Himalayan towns are facing increased water insecurity as a consequence of inadequate urban planning coupled with rapidly changing climate.A research project produced by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and its partners explores the connection between water availability, water supply systems, rapid urbanisation and consequent increase in water demand, and the overall effect on towns in HKH region...
2 Mar 2020 OKINAWA
Japan Cracks Down On US Air Force Water Pollution
Japan plans to join other nations in officially setting its own water quality safety guidelines for banned pollutants that have been found around U.S. military bases near Tokyo and on Okinawa. The country’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced Feb. 19 a combined safety threshold of 0.05 micrograms per liter for synthetic, fully fluorinated organic acids commonly known as PFOS and PFOA, a ministry spokesman said last week.
11 Jan 2020 STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Transboundary Water Cooperation Hampered By "Fake News"
Manipulation of information and dissemination of “fake news” are having negative effects on transboundary water cooperation, according to an advisor to the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), reproduced, December 2019, by Global Water Forum.The report explains how the complex intersection of changing climates and increasing environmental challenges, a general lack of data availability, and weak communications from riparian governments to the general public regarding the benefits of transboundary water cooperation can open the door to information manipulation...
11 Jan 2020 MOSCOW, Russia
New Russia Climate Change Plan Acknowledges Extreme Weather Patterns; Looks To Drought-resistant Crops, Dams To Address Water Challenges
The government of Russia has acknowledged that climate change has had a prominent and increasing effect on its economy and population and has released its plan to adapt to such changes.In a relatively brief 17-page document released January 4, the government outlines a two-year first stage action plan to mitigate damage...
2 Dec 2019 DELHI, India
Supreme Court Rules That All Citizens Of India Have A Constitutional Right To Clean Water
The Supreme Court of India has ruled that the country’s citizens have a constitutional right to clean water and air, giving state governments six weeks to explain why they should not be held accountable for "failing to discharge their basic duties" and why "liability should not be imposed for such a tort"...
2 Dec 2019 NAIROBI, Kenya
Emissions Gap Report: Targets Won't Be Met
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released its annual Emissions Gap Report, in advance of the annual United Nations climate conference in Madrid.According to scientific models, predicted temperature rises increase the likelihood of extreme weather events: accelerated glacier melt, rising sea levels, more severe monsoons, protracted drought and heat waves...
27 Oct 2019 TOKYO
Japan Addresses Disastrous Floods Associated With Climate Change
In the wake of a recent series of increasingly severe rain-caused disasters, the infrastructure ministry is discussing new steps to prevent river flooding, with an eye on expected increases in rainfall due to global warming. The ministry will revise part of the government’s basic policy on river maintenance as early as this fiscal year after discussions at the Council for Social Infrastructure, which advises the infrastructure minister, officials said...
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...
17 Sep 2019 BERLIN, Germany
"World Risk Report 2019, Focus: Water Supply"
2019's "World Risk Report" identifies water shortages as posing a growing risk to global stability. Securing access to clean water and protection against flooding and tsunamis is critical to safeguarding society against the effects of climate change, according to the Report published this week by the Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the University of Bochum, Germany...
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"...