International Water Association

European temperatures on the rise

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The European State of the Climate 2025 report highlights record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, with glaciers shrinking and snow...

Tackling the climate-energy nexus in the drive for net zero

By Erika Yarrow-Soden ‘2024 Year in Review: Climate-driven Global Renewable Energy Resources and Energy Demand’, published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the International...

The climate action emissions evidence

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 16th edition of the Emissions Gap Report makes worrying, but not unexpected reading. It finds that...

2024 – a year of extremes

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The State of Global Water Resources 2024 report, an annual publication by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), documents 2024 as an extraordinary...

Parched Earth

The latest United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) report ‘Drought Hotspots Around the World 2023–2025’, produced jointly by the UNCCD and the US...

Tackling the AMR threat

By Erika Yarrow-Soden ‘Global research agenda for antimicrobial resistance in human health’ is the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest research agenda aimed at providing guidance...

The human cost of the climate crisis

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report, No Escape: On the frontlines of Climate Change, Conflict and Forced Displacement, published...

The planet’s deepening waters

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The UN’s technical brief Surging seas in a warming world: The latest science on present-day impacts and future projections of sea-level rise...

Six years and counting

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The United Nations (UN) 2024 Financing for Sustainable Development Report: Financing for Development at a Crossroads (FSDR 2024), a joint product of...

Conflict or peace? Making water a power for good

By Erika Yarrow-Soden The United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) 2024, Water for Prosperity and Peace, was launched on 22 March, marking World Water...

FEATURED STORY

Securing water for the city of Sydney

 A.S.M. Mohiuddin, Ben Blayney, and Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran describe how Sydney, Australia, is innovating to improve water security in the face of climate change and...

NEWS

UK’s first wastewater monitoring pilot

The UK’s first pilot wastewater monitoring centre has been launched at the University of Bath.  Researchers at the Excellence Water-Based Early-Warning Systems for Health Protection...