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16 October 2017

Without water, nothing is secure

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) launch new policy brief on water security. The brief...

12 October 2017

Water security in the Middle East and North Africa

The report Beyond Scarcity: Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa, maps out actions needed to prevent...

09 October 2017

Infrastructure solutions for the Tana Basin

Conducted in the Volta and Tana River Basins, the project also aims to better understand the interests of different...

09 October 2017

Global workshop on monitoring SDG 6

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a platform for sharing experiences and reviewing results from 2016-2017 data...

05 October 2017

Global Task Force commit to reduce cholera deaths by 90% by 2030

(Story from UNICEF): An ambitious new strategy to reduce deaths from cholera by 90% by 2030 was recently launched...

02 October 2017

Water pollution is an increasing global concern

According to the report, rising demand for food with high environmental footprints, such as meat from industrial farms, is...

28 September 2017

SDG 6 in the Asia and the Pacific region

The main objective of the Report is to highlight critical gaps and challenges of the region in achieving the...

South Sudanese Migrate Home by Thousands

25 September 2017

Climate variability, environmental changes and human mobility

This is particularly true in arid and semi-arid regions, where often migration is both the result of and a...

21 September 2017

High-level Panel on Water calls to action

At the occasion of the UN General Assembly of the United Nations (UNGA) in New York, the High Level...

18 September 2017

Report of the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace

The Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace was launched in November 2015 by 15 co-convening countries; Cambodia...

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