UN-Water News
Water and Sanitation: Letting Data Lead the Way
25 September 2019 – Guest article in International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) SDG Knowledge Hub by Mr Gilbert F. Houngbo, Chair of UN-Water... Read more
Water can help win the race to limit climate change
25 September 2019 – Geneva/New York: UN says that water management must play a central role in adapting to the... Read more
Climate action summit event on transformative water actions to accelerate global achievement of climate change related goals
21-27 September, the United Nations High-level Week is hosted at the General Assembly in... Read more
United Nations High-level week hosted 21-27 September in New York
Every September, the Member States of the United Nations meet at the General Assembly in New York to discuss the... Read more
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