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Water flows through the news every day. Many stories about climate change, economics, politics, culture and leisure have a water-related dimension. Explore what UN-Water’s Members and Partners are doing around the world on water.

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Workers
12 June 2025

GCF Water Project Design Guidelines

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has released a new three-part set of Water Project Design Guidelines , offering a...
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09 June 2025

Global Report on Food Crises 2025

The GRFC 2025, launched on 16 May, finds that conflict and other crises are driving hunger to unprecedented levels...
Fisherman in wetland in boat
05 June 2025

Bridging Freshwater and Ocean Action: From the UN Ocean Conference to the 2026 UN Water Conference

This event will explore the vital link between freshwater and marine ecosystems and the need for a unified “source-to-sea”...
UN Water Netherlands SDG6 Monitoring-2
02 June 2025

Global Water Partnership Organisation opens MoU to new governments

The GWPO provides the legal framework and operational support for the Global Water Partnership (GWP) – a broad international...
Plastic waste on beach, fishingboats in the background
29 May 2025

World Environment Day 2025: Global Call to #BeatPlasticPollution

This year, World Environment Day joins the UN Environment Programme-led #BeatPlasticPollution initiative to mobilize communities worldwide to implement and...
Man in boat on lake
26 May 2025

Global workshop on ecosystems conservation and restoration in transboundary basins

Organized under the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Water Convention and co-led by France, Slovenia, and Zambia, the...
Our work
23 May 2025

SDG 6 Water Action Agenda Special Event at the High-level Political Forum 2025

Now in its fifth year, this Special Event serves as a platform to take stock of progress on Sustainable...
UN 2023 Water Conference
19 May 2025

2026 UN Water Conference

Since the UN 2023 Water Conference, which was the first such event in nearly half a century, the inaugural...
Two girls walking out from school toilet
15 May 2025

Menstrual Hygiene Day 2025: Bridging Gaps in Dignity, Data, and Investment

Menstrual Hygiene Day is about the persistent inequalities surrounding menstrual health and hygiene (MHH). This year's Menstrual Hygiene Day...
On 12 October 2016 in Jérémie, Haiti, Mylove Théogène, 8, washes dishes with a small amount of water outside her collapsed home. Mylove’s family stayed in their home on a hilltop until their home collapsed around 5:00am on the night Hurricane Matthew struck Haiti. Then, the family then moved to a school house for shelter. "I thought I was going to die. I thought my family would all die" said Mylove. The family of five lost their father in February 2016, when he fell from a tree while collecting fruit f
12 May 2025

New WHO Report Highlights Ongoing Gaps in Global Health Equity

The World report on social determinants of health equity, launched on 6 May 2025, reviews the insufficient progress on...

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