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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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17 December 2020

The State of Food and Agriculture 2020: Overcoming water challenges in agriculture

More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages and...

14 December 2020

Nature Hires: How nature-based solutions can power a green jobs recovery

Natural systems play a vital role in supporting employment. According to a new report by the International Labour Organization...

10 December 2020

Solutions in response to the pandemic crisis in Africa

Agriculture has been the engine of overall economic growth in developing countries, whereby agriculture significantly contributes to national GDPs...

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07 December 2020

State of the world's sanitation

According to WHO and UNICEF dramatic gains in water and sanitation are possible in just a few years when...

01 December 2020

UN-Water Joint Statement: 31st Special Session of the General Assembly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

A Special Session of the General Assembly in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic is hosted 3-4 December...

30 November 2020

The Great Green Wall

The Great Green Wall is one of the most ambitious projects in history - to grow an 8,000km long...

26 November 2020

World Water Day 2021 digital campaign: #Water2me

World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water...

23 November 2020

Getting households to connect to sewerage networks

Households fail to connect to existing sewerage networks for a number of reasons. Fortunately, successful programmes around the world...

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19 November 2020

UNICEF and WHO launch the state of the world's sanitation report on World Toilet Day

This new report from WHO and UNICEF is an urgent call to transform sanitation for better health, environments, economies...

17 November 2020

COVID-19 pandemic and the human rights to water and sanitation

On 16 November, a joint statement was issued by the special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking...

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