On May 21, 1997, the United Nations General Assembly issued Resolution 51/229, approving the International Convention on the Use of Watercourses for Non-Navigational Purposes. One hundred...
Improved water management, monitoring and forecasting are needed in the face of a looming global water crisis, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and partners said in a report published on Tuesday. The warning comes...
A set of initiatives aimed to reduce water consumption in Moscow has won the bronze award in the category “Mobile Sites and Applications” in the category...
As climate change accelerates a global water crisis, rainfall variability is expected to be one of the contributing forces in migration, according to a new World...
Last year was a landmark one for Sierra Leone’s rivers. For the first time, the West African country of 7 million submitted a report to the...
Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day offers the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations an opportunity to celebrate the daily work of humanitarian responders...
Water is considered to be one of the most important elements on Earth, with two thirds of it covered with water, it is the basic component...
The World Bank today approved the Nigeria Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Program (SURWASH). The $700 million credit from the International Development...
Attacks on water and sanitation facilities in conflict zones around the world are putting the lives of millions of children around the world in danger, and...
The Indus Water Treaty talks between India and Pakistan had been in limbo since India abrogated special status (Article 370) of the occupied Kashmir and usurped...