UN-Water News
UN-Water launches Policy Brief on Climate Change and Water
The science is clear: the global climate change crisis is increasing variability in the water cycle, thus reducing the predictability of water... Read more
Dealing with drought
How can countries that suffer from drought move from a crisis response to a multifacted approach? How can monitoring, early warning systems and risk assessment help? These... Read more
The 31th UN-Water Meeting convened in conjunction to the World Water Week in Stockholm
The 31th UN-Water Meeting was convened in Stockholm earlier this month, immediately prior to the World... Read more
2019 GLAAS: weak systems and funding gaps jeopardize drinking-water and sanitation in the world’s poorest countries
[28 August 2019, Stockholm] The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Water today sounded the alarm... Read more
Launch of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 Data Portal
During the World Water Week in Stockholm the UN-Water SDG 6 Data Portal was launched in the session ‘Looking forward to Phase 2... Read more
World Water Week in Stockholm 2019
The 2019 edition of World Water Week takes place on 25-30 August in Stockholm, Sweden. During the week, UN-Water will convene various activities, sessions and... Read more
Policy Brief on Climate Change and Water launched during High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Earlier today, during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) 2019, a side-event on... Read more
UN-Water vacancy as International Cooperation Adviser
With the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development under implementation and with a dedicated goal on water and sanitation, there is a need to advance... Read more
Survey on water and the United Nations
In order to better serve its constituents, UN-Water has designed a survey to learn more about people’s knowledge of water and sanitation and... Read more