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Listen to Zenia Tata’s insightful interview on the importance of funding innovation for the benefits of humanity.
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Zenia Tata interview: the importance of funding innovation for the benefits of humanity
This interview and related content was originally part of the Kini Interview Series. Kini is a retired brand of the AWP and IWCAN.
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WaterGuide: High Level Panel on Water framing paper released
A new framing paper for the High-Level Panel on Water — WaterGuide — is now publicly available. It is an organising framework for improving water resource management and use in response to scarcity. It is intended to be used primarily by national or local governments in countries where water scarcity is a present or future […]
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Emerging priorities in the food security and agriculture sectors
In an interview, Huw Pohlner from Aither discussed the importance of a global water management dialogue in considering the emerging priorities of the food security and agricultural sectors. In the Asia Pacific, up to 85% of the water supply is used for food production. While water management has been focused on breaking down the silos, the water […]
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The Sustainable Development Goals: from signatory to implementation
In an interview, Tari Bowling talks about the SDGs targets that countries aim to achieve by 2030. Are they actually a real and achievable goal, given our global track record? She discusses this from her perspective as a WASH practitioner and expert. This article looks more closely at the momentum behind the SDGs. Making progress […]
Continue readingLocal, national, and global approaches to meeting the SDGs
In an interview with Tari Bowling, she discussed how individual nations are holding themselves accountable for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This article looks more closely at who is doing what — which countries are participating in the voluntary national review process and, in particular, what France is doing, which is considered to be one of […]
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Water Abundance XPRIZE and DFAT innovationXchange competition
The Water Abundance XPRIZE is an open challenge to use technology to improve affordable access to clean water in high humidity areas where water is currently unavailable or inaccessible. It seeks to attract a solution to the lack of access to clean water encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. Water scarcity is a serious […]
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The 2016 Water Scarcity and Drought Summit
10 October 2016; World Water Congress & Exhibition, Brisbane, Australia
Continue readingGroundwater resources around the world could be depleted by 2050
New Research presented at the American Geophysical Union on the 15th December 2016 suggests that “by 2050, as many as 1.8 billion people could live in areas where groundwater levels are fully or nearly depleted because of excessive pumping of groundwater for drinking and agriculture, according to Inge de Graaf, a hydrologist at the Colorado School […]
Continue readingCan humanity survive the 21st century? A new book by Julian Cribb explores that very question
75 billion tons of topsoil are being eroded or degraded per year, affecting food security and resulting in widespread water contamination. This and the effects of climate change are leading to new ways of growing food. It is estimated that over half of the world’s agriculture will move indoors. Julian Cribb, Australian author, journalist, […]
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