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News.Jun 7, 2022

World Ocean Day: Saving the ocean starts on land

The world’s oceans are under threat and on the United Nations’ World Oceans Day 2022, the rallying cry is for Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean. SIWI’s Ruth Mathews explains why saving the ocean must start on land, with holistic management from source to sea.

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News.Jun 3, 2022

Where has fifty years of environment work taken us?

Announced as a celebration of 50 years of global environmental action, the UN conference Stockholm +50, held on 2-3 June, attracted high level participants from around the world. It demonstrated, once again, that while there is a repeated global promise to act on climate change and environment degradation, we are in fact doing far too little, far too slowly.

News.Jun 1, 2022

SIWI at Stockholm+50

SIWI is playing an active role at the United Nations Stockholm +50 conference. The message is clear: water can be a powerful tool to address the world’s increasingly intertwined human and environmental challenges. Learn more about what needs to be done.

Feature.May 31, 2022

Water fundamental to a healthy planet and people

A blue bowl of water with fish, a hippo, a freshwater turtle, and a fishing boat. Around the bowl are hills with a person looking through a pair of binocs. In the field, a person is cycling on the left side of the bowl, and to the right there is a house. Above in the sky, is a big orange sun.

Feature.May 25, 2022

Lake Hawassa is what happiness looks like

News.May 18, 2022

Back to work on environment, peace, and security

Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even more quickly than we feared. The impacts of climate change, along with degradation of nature and reduced biodiversity has monumental consequences for humanity and the planet. But we are far from powerless in the face of this global threat.

An agricultural landscape with a person sitting on a large cabbage and eating a piece of watermelon, above a person catching raindrops in a net, and on the right, a person standing on a big pumpkin and cooking soup inside it, on the bottom right two people exchanging vegetables in return for money.

Feature.May 18, 2022

Catching raindrops in Zambezi

Illustration of several women seated across a river pouring from a cup held by a woman. On a starry night with a half moon, they are carrying diamonds and there is one who is with a basket of fruit.

Feature.May 11, 2022

Across the Nile and around the table: Women with a shared dream

Illustration by Radhika Gupta showing a water harvesting bassin, in the middle of the Jordan desert. Groups of people and animal gathering around

Feature.May 4, 2022

Whispers from a Jordanian watershed

Illustration by Radhika Gupta showing elements connecting as a circular web, on dark blue background

News.Apr 29, 2022

Visions of water – seeing the unseen

Feature.Apr 28, 2022

Paraguay: Youth central to water innovation

News.Apr 28, 2022

Freshwater boundary no longer in safe zone

The planetary boundary for freshwater has been transgressed, according to researchers at Stockholm Resilience Centre, SRC. Their conclusion comes after having included, for the first time, “green water” in the assessment of the planetary boundary for freshwater.

cover of the World Bank and SIWI report Water Matters showing an illustration of a girl's head above water surrounded by flish and flowers

News.Apr 21, 2022

SIWI & the World Bank launch report on water security in Latin America and Caribbean Region

The joint report is a call to regional action to give water a more strategic role in the region’s long-term socio-economic development and COVID-19 economic recovery.

A row of houses with solar panels and backyard garden. Appeared in the cover of the IPCC report

News.Apr 5, 2022

The most important lessons from the new IPCC report

The new report from the International Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, calls for an immediate and complete transformation of every sector of society.

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News.Mar 29, 2022

How well do you know groundwater? 10 questions to uncover this hidden treasure

Groundwater, by definition, lays in the soil – out of sight. It is the world’s most abundant freshwater resource. But pollution and over-consumption threaten this hidden treasure. To understand it better is the first step to protect it. Take this quiz to start your journey!

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