The world’s water is in trouble. Freshwater pollution, coupled with climate change, population growth, and increasing demand, threatens water quality and...
A new video series by the EU-funded HABITABLE project examines how changes in the climate and environment are influencing how people perceive the “habitability”...
There cannot be climate action without water action. The acknowledgement of this at this year’s UN Water Conference could represent a "once in a generation...
Prior to Russia’s assault on Ukraine, there were an estimated 84 million displaced persons around the world. Just over one month later, the addition of 10...
The destruction of a dam across the North Crimean Canal is the most recent entry in the Water Conflict Chronology, a compendium of violent acts related to water...
The climate data for 2021 is now mostly in, and it has proved to be another noteworthy year across the oceans, atmosphere, cryosphere and surface temperature of...
Connected and healthy rivers deliver many important benefits, but if all currently proposed hydropower dams are built, over 260,000 km of rivers will lose free...
Mobility can be a viable response to climate change. National and international policy should protect those who move and address the vulnerabilities leading to...
With growing competition for water resources, foreign policy should engage with political realities rather than technical solutions alone, argue Benjamin Pohl...
That future wars will be fought over water, rather than oil, has become something of a truism, particularly with regard to the Middle East. It’s also one that...
As part of this year’s online World Water Week at Home, adelphi and IHE Delft convened the workshop "Water diplomacy: a tool for climate action?". The workshop...
Conflicts connected to water-security are often related to climate change issues. However, the link between water-scarcity-related risks and security challenges...
International political boundaries are arbitrary creations. Today’s borders are better described as imaginary lines on maps, rather than hard barriers between...
Access to water can be a critical resource for cooperation, but also a source of tension. Identifying risks before their onset is crucial for the efficiency and...
A problem is looming. Most water infrastructure isn’t designed to meet the demands of the increasingly volatile world that climate change is producing. Our...
Governments must invest new effort and money to prevent climate change from driving new conflicts, according to a diplomatic statement drafted by the German...
Around 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihood, and about 2.6 billion people rely directly on agriculture. Deforestation, land degradation...
Leaving No One Behind is the mantra of the 2019 UN-Water campaign. Foreign policy agendas of countries should apply the principle and integrate the voices of...