UN-Water News

Side-event on ‘Climate-resilient water management approaches’ at COP25
Side-event on ‘Climate-resilient water management approaches’ at COP25 On 10 December 2019, the UN-Water Expert Group on Water and Climate, organised the side event “Climate-resilient Water Management Approaches” at the... Read more

More than a toilet: sanitation critical to anti-poverty efforts
1 November 2019 – Interview in UN DESA Voice with Madhushree Chatterjee, UN-Water Secretary and Chief of the Natural Resources and Interlinkages Branch of... Read more

World Toilet Day 2019: ‘Leaving no one behind’
Today, 4.2 billion people live without safely managed sanitation, 673 million still practise open defecation and three billion lack basic handwashing facilities.[1]... Read more

Open webinar on the SDG 6 Data Portal
An open webinar hosted on Friday 18 October will explain and show the main functionalities of the SDG 6 Data Portal. The... Read more

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