Events2Join

Bridging past and future to address water stress


Bridging borders: A holistic approach to water, food and biodiversity

In this panel discussion with SIWI and the Government of the Netherlands, experts emphasize the need for integrated approaches to address these ...

Artificial Intelligence could help billions facing water scarcity

Technology start-ups are racing to address water shortages around the globe. Artificial intelligence is one tool that is making headways.

Water Crisis? Water Scarcity? How About Water Independence?

Many of us in the environmental field have been talking about how we're running out of freshwater, how we're in a time of peak water and how we're headed into a ...

How Municipalities Can Prepare for Urgent Water Crises | Veolia

In order to create a resilient infrastructure, it's imperative for municipalities to understand what's worked in the past, their existing water ...

Chile's Ongoing Water Crisis: Threats and Needed Actions - NRDC

A recent report by NRDC highlights water management solutions that address floods and droughts, two seemingly divergent issues that already take a toll on ...

Tackling World's Water Crisis, Addressing Small Island States ...

Against the backdrop of intensifying climate change, conflicts and loss of biodiversity, the world is experiencing a water crisis, and small ...

25 Countries Face Extremely High Water Stress

Without better water management, population growth, economic development and climate change are poised to worsen water stress. Here, we dive ...

Preventing and Resolving Conflicts Before They Boil Over - PMC

It can also help prevent violent conflict over water and help build sustainable peace. Two examples of such cooperation in the Middle East have been the Good ...

World Water Week - an annual event on global water issues hosted ...

... water cooperation, for peace and security in its broadest sense. The theme, Bridging Borders: Water for a Peaceful and Sustainable Future, asks us to ...

Addressing China's Water Scarcity - World Bank Document

Past water management in China, based on water abstraction only, has ... water use and future water needs, and determines water quotas for each ...

Coping with water scarcity - Challenge of the twenty-first century

Water scarcity affects all social and economic sectors and threatens the sustainability of the natural resources base. Addressing water scarcity requires an ...

Water, River, and Community - NSTA

A course that incorporated a transdisciplinary community-based approach in addressing the wicked problem of freshwater resources.

Tapped out The costs of water stress in Jordan - Unicef

* Climate change is making the region warmer and the supply of freshwater scarcer and more volatile.57 According to the Global Historical. Climatology Network ( ...

Climate change and water in the UK – past changes and future ...

Future changes in rainfall and evapotranspiration could lead to changed flow regimes and impacts on water quality, aquatic ecosystems and water availability.

As Rio Grande Shrinks, El Paso Plans for Uncertain Water Future

... water-hungry crops to those that are more drought tolerant. Intermittent water shortages have long plagued El Paso, and in the 1950s a ...

The What, Why and How of the World Water Crisis

Multiple drivers shape the pressures, which affect past, current and future generations. ... (2020), “Humans drive future water scarcity changes across all Shared ...

A Sustainable Future: Two Paths to 2050 - The Nature Conservancy

Changes in energy sources and food production (see above sections) would lead to significant water savings by reducing use of water as a coolant ...

China's Five-Year National Water Security Plan - The Diplomat

In response to the limitations of using conventional water resources to meet future needs amid a changing climate, the FYP recommends using ...

4 Water - IPCC

... water scarcity and levels of challenge for policies addressing future change. ... All previous IPCC reports have focused on future water-related risks to.

How to assess water impacts and risks | Business for Nature posted ...

How can companies address their water dependencies and impacts? More than 50% of major listed companies are exposed to medium to high water stress ...