March 18, 2022
This year’s theme for World Water Day is groundwater, making the invisible visible. Groundwater resources globally provide about 50% of all drinking water, about 40% of water used for agriculture, and about 30% of the water ...
September 28, 2019
Líderes internacionales y locales se reunirán la próxima semana en Guayaquil, Ecuador, para generar propuestas y acciones consensuadas con el fin de abordar algunos de los problemas más críticos que enfrenta el planeta actual...
September 28, 2019
Top international and local leaders will meet this week in Guayaquil, Ecuador to build consensual actions to address some of the most critical issues confronting the planet today. En Español Guayaquil, Ecuador, 28 September 2019 ...
September 17, 2018
Edamame, rice and growing meat and dairy sector most at risk Tokyo, 17 September 2018: Research into how increasing water scarcity and drought may impact the Japanese economy (1) was released by R2Water (2) and FutureWater (3) at ...
July 9, 2018
The Portuguese city of Lisbon has won the European Green Capital Award for 2020, while the title of European Green Leaf 2019 goes jointly to the cities of Cornellà de Llobregat and Horst aan de Maas. These prestigious titles were...
December 12, 2016
13 – 16 November 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina The International Water Association (IWA) and its main partner in Buenos Aires, Argentina´s Ministry of Internal Affairs, Public Works and Housing – Secretary of Water Resou...
November 14, 2016
2030 timeline to solve all major water challenges Solving global water challenges is now recognised as one of the top priorities for humankind. The recently adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals, with their 169 measurable targ...
June 1, 2016
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1st June 2016 – South Asian countries face continued severe drought following two consecutive monsoon failures. The South Asia Groundwater Forum, organised by the Government of India in collaboratio...
October 17, 2015
Pay Drechsel’s research has played an important role in developing options for safe wastewater use in countries where treatment capacities are low and informal wastewater use is a common feature of irrigated urban and peri-urban...
March 16, 2015
The Amu Darya River Basin in Central Asia offers almost paradigmatic food-water-energy nexus dilemmas. The glacier fed Amu Darya River is crucial to the livelihoods of the approximately 50 million people who live in its basin acro...