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Tag: climate change

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...

WMO highlights growing threat to water security from extreme weather

The latest annual report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlights global water stress. The authors of State of Global Water Resources, report that...

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...

Climate smart utilities – China rises to the carbon challenge

Showcasing five Chinese cases among the global utilities recognised by IWA’s Climate Smart Utilities Initiative. IWA’s Climate Smart Utilities Recognition Programme seeks to inspire water,...

Groundwater: Nature’s hidden gem

Published in June, the World Bank’s global groundwater report, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Economics of Groundwater in Times of Climate Change, highlights...

NASA’s Earth Observation project goes ‘Open Access’

NASA has announced that outputs of its OPERA Earth Observation project are now freely available. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with partners from NASA’s...

Why water should take centre stage in climate discussions

By Maurice Hall The recent UN IPCC report offers stark warnings about fast-rising temperatures. San Francisco’s Global Climate Action Summit unsurprisingly focused on reducing emissions....

The water you already have is the cheapest and most abundant...

By Mona Grieser Water resource challenges in the Philippines For many people in the Philippines, water through heavy rains has always been an abundant resource. More...

A smart approach towards climate change

By Raul Glotzbach A week after about 179 people were killed in deadly floods in the western part of Japan in July, the country experienced...

Beyond urban water security: the vulnerability of intermittent water supplies

By Hassan Aboelnga Many cities today are at risk of running out of water, with water availability now cited as one of the greatest risks...