SPECIAL WATER EDITION: World Water Week 2022
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Join us for World Water Week: Aug. 23 - Sept. 1: Water is at the center of economic and social development; it is vital to maintain health, grow food, generate energy, manage the environment, and create jobs. This year’s World Water Week will focus on the diverse aspects of water, how others view and value water, and the exploration of water’s full value to society.?Learn more.
IN FOCUS
The role of water in building local and regional resilience around the Horn of Africa’s borderlands: It is often said that?"a picture is worth a thousand words."?This is particularly the case in the Horn of Africa’s borderlands, where images can send an unequivocal message as to the value of water both as part of local and regional approaches to resilience building. Learn more.
BLOG
People Power: Bringing safe drinking water to a village in India: Aminda Simsanggre is a remote village in Meghalaya State with very limited access to piped water. In early 2020, the community identified the lack of safe drinking water and limited livelihood opportunities as major concerns and began working with the World Bank Group to address these concerns. Read blog.
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VIDEO
Floods and Droughts in the Era of Climate Change: Over the last two decades, at least 1.65 billion people have been affected by floods and 1.43 billion by droughts. How can we manage the growing risks of floods and droughts on a warming planet? Watch video.
JOBS
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Water Supply and Sanitation: Lack of access to water supply and sanitation constitutes a public health, economic, and environmental emergency across the developing world. Urgent action is needed to provide sustainable WSS services to all. More data.
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1 年Durk Krol Martin Kern Pernille Weiss Dr. Angelika Winzig Charles Michel Gim Neo Technische Universit?t Wien Rudolf Ochsner #Water #Wasser #Sanitation #Sustainable Management
DRR/CCA Practitioner, Program Officer Resilient Environment Adaptation and Local Management Network (REALMN)
2 年The EARTH= 70% water + 30% Land Mass "Water is Life" we have to protect it, don't waste it until its last drop. The Earth has a limiting capacity for every resources we found, we have to conserve it for the near future, for our children, child. We must do it not only this time of celebrating the World Water Day! but to include the importance of protecting the biodiversity, ecosystem and the whole environment as well. To our leaders and policy makers please include from your plan of mitigating the same and uphold the full protection of environment " a wake up call " that we are suffering from the negative effect of climate change..........
Legal and Corporate Lawyer at shazia law associates
2 年Alas! everyone knows the importance of every drop of water and inspite of this reality people are doing the same attitude of ignorance doing busy to waste of this precious God,s blessing on humankind there is need to do more awareness to this cause and save water for upcoming generation and better growing crops etc