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27 February 2025

WHO: New Guidance on Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance

WES is disease surveillance using samples from sewage, or other environmental waters impacted by human wastewater. WES has potential...

24 February 2025

UNECE: Data for Climate Action - How National Statistical Offices Can Contribute

The report addresses the growing demand for accurate climate data to inform policy, measure progress, and engage stakeholders. The...

Nile water intake plant. New water purification plant and pipeline pumping clean water to 70,000 in Juba town and to 30,000 in internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp. The Juba pipeline construction project is now complete and in the testing phase, which takes water from the Nile River and transports it to the water treatment plant more than one kilometre away. After the water is treated and disinfected, it is then pumped almost four kilometres uphill to the reservoir tank up in the Jebel mountains, whic

20 February 2025

WHO, WaterAid, and UNICEF Launch Webinar Series on Safely Managed Sanitation

Building on the outcomes of the Global Summit to Accelerate Progress Towards SMS (held in June 2024 in Nepal)...

17 February 2025

UNICEF 2025 Global Outlook: Prospects for Children in 2025 - Building Resilient Systems for Children’s Futures

In this new report, new and intensifying crises for children – including climate change, conflict and economic instability –...

13 February 2025

World Drought Atlas

Through maps, infographics, and case studies, the World Drought Atlas illustrates how drought risks are interconnected across sectors like...

10 February 2025

IUCN: One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction

The IUCN co-authored study, which was published in “Nature”, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal, in January 2025, recommends...

06 February 2025

Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) adopted at UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) was adopted at the conclusion of the 15th Conference of Parties to the...

03 February 2025

WMO: 2024 is the hottest year on record

Throughout 2024, a series of reports from the WMO community highlighted the rapid pace of climate change and its...

28 January 2025

World Wetlands Day 2025

World Wetlands Day 2025, on 2 February, centres on the theme: “Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future.” This year’s...

27 January 2025

Abstract Submission for XIIth IAHS Scientific Assembly, 5-10 October 2025

The XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS 2025) will take place in Roorkee, India...

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