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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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15 July 2024

10th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention

Growing from a regional to a global instrument, with five more countries joining in 2023, the Water Convention is...

11 July 2024

Global Sanitation Summit

The Summit highlighted the urgent need for sector alignment and coordination to advance safely managed sanitation and overall water...

08 July 2024

Launch of United Nations System-wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation

Following an opening keynote address by a representative of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the UN System-wide...

04 July 2024

New FAO digital ‘Compendium on drought impact and vulnerability’

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the united Nations (FAO) has unveiled a digital Compendium on drought impact and...

01 July 2024

WHO’s Global Framework for WASH, Waste and Electricity in Health Facilities (2024-2030)

Aimed at creating resilient, high-quality health services, the Framework is designed to support the implementation of the recent UN...

27 June 2024

World Bank report: Water for Shared Prosperity

Water for Shared Prosperity defines four interconnected building blocks of prosperity: health and education (human capital), jobs and income...

24 June 2024

IWA Digital Water Summit

Targeting all stakeholders involved in water sector digitalization, the Summit will have a focus on business and industry. Water...

20 June 2024

World Bank: Funding a Water-Secure Future

According to the report, annual spending on water is $164.6 billion in developing countries, which amounts to roughly 0.5...

17 June 2024

WHO/UNICEF: new report on menstrual health and hygiene in schools

A new global report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reveals major gaps...

Child hands with dry land in the foregrounds

13 June 2024

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, 17 June

Desertification, land degradation, and drought are among the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, with up to 40...

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