Search

17 Oct 2021 GENEVA

The Science Of The Looming World Water Crisis

Extraordinary meeting to address "explosive" growth in demand for WMO services

17 Dec 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

Disastrous Climate Damage Continued In 2020

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) assesses that 2020 is on track to be the second warmest year in the most recent decade, with the warmest six years being since 2015.Preliminary information, based on data collected from January to October 2020, shows how high-impact events such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires affected millions of people...

5 Nov 2019 GENEVA, Switzerland

High Mountain Summit Calls For Action On Ecosystems Essential To Global Water, Food Energy Security.

A "High Mountain Summit", convened by the World Meterological Organization (WMO), has issued a call for action to protect the earth’s glaciers, snow, permafrost and associated ecosystems that provide water for over half the world’s population.The three-day summit in Geneva was called in order to address the effects of climate change on the cryosphere: modifications to biological diversity, retreat of mountain glaciers, flash floods and changes in runoff...

8 May 2018 GENEVA, Switzerland

WMO Seeks Improved Water Supply Data And Monitoring Systems

The World Meterological Organization (WMO) this week (7-9 May) convened the agency’s “HydroConference”in Geneva, Switzerland with the aim of seeking solutions to manage water more sustainably.WMO identifies a lack of comprehensive water supply data and monitoring systems as making it harder to respond to the growing global water crisis...

Premium

24 Mar 2014 TOKYO, Japan

Global Water Demand to Increase 55 Percent by 2050: UN

Global demand for freshwater is expected to increase by about 55 percent by 2050, largely due to the increased demand in manufacturing (400 percent), thermal electricity generation (140 percent) and domestic use (130 percent), according to a new report from the United Nations.The report, “World Water Development Report 2014; Water and Energy,” was released on March 21 at the Asia Pacific Regional Symposium “Water-Energy Nexus in Asia,” which was held at the United Nations University Headquarters Building in Tokyo, Japan...

Premium

17 Feb 2014 WASHINGTON, DC, United States

Population a Key Part of Environmental Management in Lake Victoria and Lake Chilwa Basins

Managing population growth is key to environmental conservation and water management in Africa's Lake Victoria and Lake Chilwa basins, participants heard at a recent event at Washington, DC-based think tank the Wilson Center.At the event, "From Victoria to Chilwa: Integrated Development in Two African Lake Basins,” speakers Doreen Othero of the Lake Victoria Basin Commission and Deepa Pullanikkatil of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) in Malawi explained the need for integrating population, health and environmental issues rather than keeping them in separate "silos...

5 Jul 2013 GENEVA, Switzerland

2001-2010 Was a Decade of Weather Extremes: UN

The decade of 2001-2010 saw “unprecedented high-impact climate extremes” across the planet, with floods, droughts and hurricanes killing 370,000 people, a 20 percent increase over the previous decade, according to new report from the UN’s World Meterological Organization.The report, “The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Extremes” (available here), found that this was the warmest decade for both land and ocean temperature since recordings began in 1850, which lead to rapid melting of Arctic sea ice and land glaciers...

Premium