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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…
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Local, 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…
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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…
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The 2016 Water Scarcity and Drought Summit
The Water Scarcity and Drought Summit brought together over 150 leading policymakers, practitioners, and opinion leaders to discuss how to promote the building of resilience to water scarcity and…
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Groundwater 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…
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Can 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…
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CSIRO: supporting water resource management in large international basins
Dr Peter Wallbrink, research director for basin management outcomes at the CSIRO speaks about supporting water resource management in large international basins at the 2016…
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BOM: water resources assessment manual book
Dr Amgad Elmahdi, head of water resources section at climate and water division of the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) speaks about the water resources assessment…
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Towards a water-wise world: 2016 World Water Congress & Exhibition
The 2016 World Water Congress & Exhibition (Brisbane, 9 – 14 October 2016) brought together over 5,000 participants from 108 countries to share latest insights and discuss new solutions…
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