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28 Nov 2024
Background The 40th UN-Water Meeting was held at UN Headquarters in New York, from 4-5 November 2024. UN-Water is the coordination body which brings together more than 30 United N...
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At COP 29 in Bakoe, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) presented the 2024 edition of its State of Climate Services report. This report, which is an update of its 2023 repo...
1 Nov 2024
On the 22nd of October, a second high-level session was held on the regional initiative for cross-border cooperation on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB). This initiati...
7 Nov 2024
On the 16th of October, The Water Diplomat caught up with Bapon Fakhruddin and Henk Ovink for an in depth conversation about about water on the global agenda, from Stockholm Water ...
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On the 5th of November, at the 12th session of the World Urban Forum held in Cairo, Egypt, the European Commission, in partnership with UN-Habitat, announced the launch of the seco...
29 Nov 2024
On November 19, World Toilet Day (WTD) was observed at an in-person event at UN headquarters in New York. The theme of WTD 2024 is “Sanitation for Peace”, highlighting the essentia...
24 Oct 2024
In Ljubljana, Slovenia, more than 100 countries and 30 ministers attended the 10th session of Meeting of the Parties (MOP) to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transbound...
7 Nov 2024
On the 16th of October, The Water Diplomat caught up with Bapon Fakhruddin and Henk Ovink for an in depth conversation about about water on the global agenda, from Stockholm Water ...
1 Nov 2024
On the 22nd of October, a second high-level session was held on the regional initiative for cross-border cooperation on the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin (SMAB). This initiati...
5 Nov 2024
The profile of water security is currently rising fast on the international political arena, but are actions and implementations following suit? UN-Water has released a midterm eva...
4 Oct 2024
Zambia and the UNECE are expecting to celebrate the country’s accession to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (UN Water ...
19 Sep 2024
On the 13th of September, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of H.E. Retno L.P. Marsudi of the Republic of Indonesia as his Special Envoy o...
29 Nov 2024
Between October 2019 and January 2024, more than 100 attacks by Turkish air forces reportedly took place on oil fields, gas facilities and power stations in the Kurdish-held Autono...
3 Dec 2024
From May to September of this year, researchers at the Institute for Water Education (IHE Delft), funded by the Water and Development Partnership Programme, carried out research on...
31 Oct 2024
An outbreak of cholera was officially declared on 12 August 2024 by Sudan’s Federal Ministry of Health, after a new wave of cholera cases was reported beginning on 22 July 2024. Be...
1 Nov 2024
According to a press release by the Water Peace and Security Partnership (WPS), the unprecedented heat during the course of this year has heightened the likelihood of water-related...
5 Nov 2024
On 24 October the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a USD 39 million FAO-led project, which is aimed at improving water and food security in Iraq’s rural areas with climate-resilie...
3 Oct 2024
In September, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)finalised its sixth report on international humanitarian law (IHL) and the challenges of contemporary armed conflic...
19 Nov 2024
At COP 29 in Bakoe, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) presented the 2024 edition of its State of Climate Services report. This report, which is an update of its 2023 repo...
6 Dec 2024
Integrating Water into NDCs and NAPs: regional lessons At Cop 29 in Azerbaijan, the Water for Climate Pavilion hosted a thematic day entitled ‘Watering the NDCs and NAPs. The ob...
6 Dec 2024
On November 13, Nature Water published an article in which the authors argue for a ‘portfolio approach’ to sanitation, in order to enhance the outcomes of sanitation solutions beyo...
6 Dec 2024
In November, the UN-Water Expert Group on Water and Climate Change published the UN-Water Analytical Brief on Water for Climate Mitigation. The UN-Water Expert Group supports coope...
28 Nov 2024
In the urgency to achieve the targets under SDG 6, technologies that work in specific contexts will need to be implemented and scaled up. One such technology is the GDM (Gravity-Dr...
5 Nov 2024
On October 1st, UN-Water announced the publication of the third progress report on transboundary water cooperation, which is monitored globally with the use of indicator 6.5.2, tra...
1 Nov 2024
Background The World Health Organisation/United Nations Children’s Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has published thei...
7 Nov 2024
On the 24th of October during the 10th session of the Meeting of Parties to the Water Convention in Ljubljana, a side event was held on the ‘Nexus Approach’ for climate action in t...
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3 Dec 2024
The 29th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended on the 24th of November with a new finance goal to support countries to ...
6 Dec 2024
On the 4th of November, at COP 29 in Azerbaijan, the Asian Development Bank, with the support of the Green Climate Fund, launched a new regional programme to promote water and food...
18 Oct 2024
On the 17th of October, the Global Commission on the Economics of Water published its 2024 report entitled ‘The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Commo...
15 Oct 2024
On October 1st, Global Water Intelligence (GWI) published the 2024 Global Water Tariff Survey 2024 which reports a record increase in global water, wastewater and stormwater bills ...
5 Oct 2024
On the 24th of August, at Stockholm Water Week, The Water Diplomat caught up with Mr Lance Gore, Principal Water Resources Specialist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to discuss...
5 Oct 2024
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has been supporting the government of Colombia on a project which aims to enhance the climate resilience of vulnerable communities in the Colombian wet...
27 Nov 2024
On Tuesday morning 12 November, the Daily Maverickreported that an operation by technicians of Johannesburg Water utility to cut connections had to be aborted, due to a standoff be...
5 Dec 2024
In September of this year, Euronews reported a surge in sinkholes in Turkey’s fertile Konya Plain, dubbed "the country’s granary". Specifically, the districts of Cihanbeyli, Yunak,...
31 Oct 2024
About 1.3 million inhabitants of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, are dependent on two reservoirs located at 32km from the city. These reservoirs are fed by the Upper Great Ak...
7 Nov 2024
Since 2001, a small wetland restoration project in the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare, has been protecting water sources and biodiversity. On the 10th of October, Mongabay, an America...
5 Oct 2024
The most intense rainfall in half a century occurred in Karnali province in Nepal in late September, resulting in flash floods and landslides in the densely populated Kathmandu val...
18 Sep 2024
Poland has experienced both extremes of the hydrological spectrum in the month of September, swinging between drought in early September to a flood emergency less than two weeks la...
4 Oct 2024
On the 18th of September the government of India formally requested the Government of Pakistan to review the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), signed by the two governments in Karachi in ...
