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WHY WATER

Water and Peace

When properly managed, water can be a peacemaking platform for long lasting cooperation

Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous peoples are the custodians of many of the world’s most fragile and important ecosystems. They also possess invaluable knowledge about sustainability and resilience, so they have a vital role in protecting our environment.

Water and the 2030 Agenda

In 2015, the global community launched the 2030 Agenda, with 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that should be reached by 2030. Some progress has been made, but for most of the goals, the world is not on track to meet the deadline. Water can help us do better.

Water in landscapes

A growing number of people, societies and companies are discovering the power of resilient landscapes. It is still possible to shift to more sustainable practices that recharge water, restore soil health, sequester carbon, and strengthen biodiversity – but we need to make the transformation now.

Agriculture and water

How to increase the productivity of agriculture around the world through better water management.

Groundwater is the regulator of the entire freshwater cycle, but its invisibility makes it difficult to manage and protect.

While we all depend heavily on rivers for our survival, many rivers are under constant threat from unsustainable human activities

Insufficient supply and inadequate infrastructure leaves millions of people in the world without water.

The source-to-sea approach focuses on the strong connection between what happens on land, along waterways, and in the sea.

Water and climate

The climate crisis is essentially a water crisis. When we treat it as such, we get new tools to mitigate climate change and adapt to consequences that are unavoidable.

Water governance

Many of the most pressing challenges in the world are about water: too little, too much or too inferior. Such challenges can only be effectively addressed through adequate governance of available water resources.

The impact of COVID-19

The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed millions of people back into poverty and exposed unacceptable gaps between the rich and the poor. One in three people are still not able to wash their hands with soap and water at home.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

More than two billion people in the world lack safely managed drinking water and twice as many lack safely managed sanitation, making WASH one of the most urgent development challenges.

PERSPECTIVES

Youth and water

More and more young people offer important contributions to solving the growing water challenges they are inheriting.

Human rights and water

Having access to water and sanitation has been recognized as a human right since 2010. But water is also essential to ensuring the fulfilment of many other rights.

Gender and water

To improve water governance, we need to take a close look at gender roles.

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Blog.Dec 20, 2022

Groundwater Summit 2022: The culminating event of the UN-Water year to make the invisible visible

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News.May 30, 2022

Water integrity and its champions are needed now more than ever

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News.Dec 15, 2021

Towards holistic sustainability checks for water, sanitation and hygiene

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News.Dec 07, 2021

Do you really know water? 10 questions to test your knowledge

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Blog.Dec 06, 2021

The human right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment: the legal nitty-gritty

Blog.Dec 01, 2021

Human rights, water resources, and governance for a healthy and sustainable environment

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Indigenous knowledge around water governance: sessions not to miss at World Water Week

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News.Jun 11, 2021

Launching the Women Water Champions Compendium

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News.May 10, 2021

Armenia takes action to achieve the SDG 6

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News.May 10, 2021

New framework for water tariffs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Climate and Webinar Series: Why are we re-revisiting?

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Re-launched and updated online course: A Human Rights Based Approach to Integrated Water Resources Management

News.Aug 19, 2020

Sustainable sanitation and gaps in global climate policy and financing

News.Jun 22, 2020

Building water governance capacity for water security

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News.Apr 21, 2020

New framework on water governance for practitioners

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News.Apr 02, 2020

Why water governance is key to tackling climate change

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News.Mar 20, 2020

New action plan to strengthen climate resilient WASH services delivery in Tanzania

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Insight.Mar 11, 2020

Drought management strengthened in Jordan

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News.Dec 20, 2019

Ecuador evaluated bottlenecks on rural WASH, integrating a perspective in climate change and the Rights of Nature

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News.Feb 18, 2019

Climate change can cause cascading security risks

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News.Oct 23, 2018

Avoiding the 2 degree rise: New climate security hub to support wise decision-making

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News.Jul 19, 2018

Inequality, financing and capacity development flagged as key issues for SDG 6 in Public Dialogue

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News.Mar 19, 2018

11 Heads of State call for fundamental shift in the way water is valued

Consultant/writer for Impact Stories Report on ‘What Works in Water Governance’ – Call for Proposals

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Blog.Mar 02, 2018

Three things Cape Town teaches us about managing water

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News.Dec 04, 2017

Help us fight corruption in the water sector

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News.Nov 13, 2017

Understanding sustained use of ecological sanitation in rural Burkina Faso

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Highlights from World Water Week 2017

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News.Oct 05, 2017

Pilot projects to tackle drought in Jordan moving ahead

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News.Oct 03, 2017

Corruption, water and gender – do women and men face the same challenges?

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News.Sep 29, 2017

“We got the wheels turning on the SDGs”

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News.Sep 28, 2017

High-level recognition of the value of source-to-sea approaches at World Water Week 2017

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Blog.Jun 15, 2017

The Baltic Sea Project – A Water Dialogue seminar

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News.Mar 17, 2017

Regulatory agency to improve water and sanitation services in Liberia

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News.Feb 06, 2017

World’s first manual on Human Rights-Based Approach to IWRM

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News.Aug 22, 2016

Reliable information needed to improve rural water supply in Kyrgyzstan – a new statistics form developed

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News.Apr 22, 2016

Water utilities in Laos take action for improved integrity

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News.Mar 07, 2016

High-level workshops in Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia

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News.Nov 25, 2015

Integrity Pact Promotes Transparency around Pipe Replacement Contracts in El Salvador

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Integrity Management Training and Strategy Workshop in San José, Costa Rica, April 14-17, 2015

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Integrity and Transparency in Water Management in Latin America

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News.Sep 15, 2014

Water Governance Facility at World Water Week 2014

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