For decades, international water policy has been shaped by economic models that view water as a tradable resource rather than ...

The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia’s Atrato River basin has created a ...

PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) - Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on ...

13 March 2025 - – The air was charged with a sense of purpose at UN Headquarters in New York, as Member States, UN entities, and stakeholders took their seats in the ECOSOC Chamber for the 2026 UN ...

The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report released on Thursday that the global water cycle was becoming ever more unpredictable, with shrinking glaciers, droughts, unbalanced ...

The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks ...

An Afghan Hazara boy drinks water from a tap in Qavariyak village in Shibar district of Bamiyan province on June 18, 2025.[AFP] More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to ...

GORDIL, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - DECEMBER 12: A woman carries water to her home in a rebel held town December 12, 2007 in Gordil in the northern Central African Republic. Central African Republic ...

A UN water report issued today gives a useful overview of a world growing increasingly short of water but puts far too little emphasis on the need to protect the natural environmental assets that ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (April 17, 2024) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a participant in the United Nations' (UN) High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP). Established ...

The effects of climate change are already experienced in multiple ways around the globe. As weather extremes intensify, Grundfos is calling for urgent, coordinated action to address one of the most ...

Kumamoto City is located in the center of Kyushu, the southern major island of Japan. The city is blessed with rich greenery and abundant groundwater in the volcanic pyroclastic aquifer created by Mt.