The Gulf nations of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are rated as the world’s most water stressed countries, with…
The renewed attention to hydropower, which accounts for about 16 percent of the global electricity mix, comes with environmental red…
The report, which responds to requirements under the SECURE Water Act of 2009, shows several increased risks to western United…
Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the…
More than 1 million acres of Texas plains and forests has gone up in smoke this month as hundreds of…
The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries,…
In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific…
The failure of the October to December 2010 rains in the Eastern Horn of Africa has left nearly 8.4 million…
Every minute, 15 children die from drinking dirty water. Every time you eat a hamburger, you consume 2400 liters of…
Cuba is facing its worst drought in half a century, with tens of thousands of families almost entirely reliant on…
Extreme water security risks across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) may lead to further increases in global oil…
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
OSLO | Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:01pm EDT
OSLO (Reuters) – The United Nations should promote “hydro-diplomacy”…
In February, world food prices reached the highest level on record. Soaring food prices are already a source of spreading…
The Global Water Footprint Standard developed through a joint effort of the Water Footprint Network, its 130 partners, and scientists…
The Chinese government is spending $1bn (£600m) on emergency measures in an attempt to combat one of the most serious…
In some areas these are the driest conditions in a lifetime. Snowfalls in recent days have helped a little, but…
Within a single generation, recent studies show, water demand in many countries will exceed supply by an…
The soil lies cracked and broken in China’s Shangdong Province, thirsting for rains that will not come. China’s key wheat…
The challenge is evident from the burst of recent reports in the Chinese media about food, water and the environment.
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In 2011 the world population will likely reach 7 billion people, just a dozen years after hitting 6 billion. Surprisingly,…
Poverty, repression, decades of injustice and mass unemployment have all been cited as causes of the political convulsions in the…
“Catastrophic drought occurred once every five years in the 1950s and once every two years in the 1990s. But in…
Over the past year, the world has witnessed weather events on four continents so extreme that they stretch the limits…
The most likely source of political and social unrest in the Middle East over the next twenty years is not…
Afghanistan could face a serious drought in 2011 that would make millions of poor go hungry and fuel instability as…
An Indian thinktank, Strategic Foresight Group, released a report Saturday that claims that Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories are…
Increasing drought and aridity around the world, linked to climate change and land degradation, are becoming a major threat to…
The United Nations’ food agency issued an alert on Tuesday warning that a severe drought was threatening the wheat crop…
EPI: We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can…
Second prize: Kyaw Thar
Photograph: UNCCD Photo Contest 2009
The UNCCD international photo contest 2009 is part of a global effort to raise awareness…
Swathes of Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories have all been hit by a devastating drought…
In the first of a four-part video series on climate change in Ecuador and Peru,…
Glacial meltwater can be a crucial water source for human populations living in river basins, raising concerns about the affect…
This Atlas is a visual account of Africa’s endowment and use of water resources, revealed through 224 maps and 104…
Egypt, Ethiopia and seven other countries through which the river passes have been locked in more than a decade of…
The major industrial economies of Australia, India, China and USA have been rated as ‘high risk’ in a new study…
Arabs will have to survive on less than 500 cubic meters of water a year each, or below a tenth…
For thousands of years, nomadic herdsmen have roamed the harsh, semi-arid lowlands that stretch across 80 percent of Kenya and…
Nearly 80% of the world’s population — 4.8 billion people as calculated in 2000 — live…
The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming…
A new global ranking, calculating the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change over the next 30…
Stik mod flere klimamodellers forudsigelser er store landområder i Australien, Afrika og Sydamerika udtørret over de sidste 10 år. Det…
Over 600 water practitioners are discussing the water crisis facing countries in Asia and the Pacific, the consequent threats to…
The Nile follows an unusual course, flowing northward from the interior of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. For as long…
About 80% of the world’s population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a…
In recent decades, the rate at which humans worldwide are pumping dry the vast underground stores of water that billions…
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
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China can’t dam or divert water quickly enough to keep up with its thirsty population, and the shortage has reached…
Millions of Indians can’t access fresh water on a daily basis, Shreyasi Singh reports. And the situation is set to…
