More: Water Resources
What Businesses Need to Know About Water Deregulation
Upon the water industry becoming deregulated, businesses were able to choose the retailer that they buy their water supply from. Local monopoly companies still...
Water sources are disappearing. How can we adapt?
If forests are the ‘lungs’ of our planet; absorbing twice as much carbon as they emit each year, then we can think of water...
Moldova’s Water Sector to Become More Resilient and Inclusive with WB Support
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved financing for the Moldova Water Security and Sanitation Project in the amount of EUR 44.1...
UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997)
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....
Climate change, population increase fuel looming water crisis
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...
Moscow campaign to reduce water consumption wins international award
A set of initiatives aimed to reduce water consumption in Moscow has won the bronze award in the category "Mobile Sites and Applications" in...
Lack of Water Linked to 10 Percent of the Rise in Global Migration
As climate change accelerates a global water crisis, rainfall variability is expected to be one of the contributing forces in migration, according to a...
How Sierra Leone is taking on water pollution
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...
Rebuilding relationships over natural resources in Darfur
Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day offers the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations an opportunity to celebrate the daily work of...
Water Crisis: Pakistan running dry
Water is considered to be one of the most important elements on Earth, with two thirds of it covered with water, it is the...