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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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25 September 2019

Water and Sanitation: Letting Data Lead the Way

The sixth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation...

25 September 2019

Water can help win the race to limit climate change

This call came as the international community meets at the Climate Action Summit and the opening of the 74...

23 September 2019

Dresden Nexus Conference 2020 call for abstracts now open

The Dresden Nexus Conference is an international conference series dedicated to advancing research on and the implementation of a...

19 September 2019

Climate action summit event on transformative water actions to accelerate global achievement of climate change related goals

On 25 September the event Transformative Water Actions to Accelerate Global Achievement of Climate Change related Goals will be...

16 September 2019

United Nations High-level week hosted 21-27 September in New York

The impacts of climate change are accelerating, but with urgent and transformative action, it is still possible to limit...

11 September 2019

UN-Water launches Policy Brief on Climate Change and Water

Growing demand for water increases the need for energy-intensive water pumping, transportation, and treatment, and has contributed to the...

09 September 2019

New thematic report on access to water and sanitation outside the household

The report titled “human rights to water and sanitation in spheres of life beyond the household with an emphasis...

06 September 2019

Dealing with drought

Multiple stakeholders representing agriculture, health and the climate sectors shared their experiences on how to deal with the negative...

05 September 2019

The 31th UN-Water Meeting convened in conjunction to the World Water Week in Stockholm

The UN-Water meetings bring Members and Partners together twice a year to carry out the mandate of informing policies...

02 September 2019

World Bank report on the effects of worsening water quality on economic growth

Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis shows how a combination of bacteria, sewage, chemicals, and plastics can suck oxygen...

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