Data & Reports
Iran dam to affect Iraq
A new report highlights the disastrous impact of Daryan Dam on Iraq and on the Tigris flow The Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes […]
Category: Water
Biodiversity
Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests under threat from a power plant
World Heritage Centre and IUCN call for relocation of Rampal power plant in Bangladesh, a serious threat to the Sundarbans The Sundarbans in Bangladesh […]
Sustainable Business
Climate change and the boatman
Teresa Rehman Traditional boatmen and boat builders on the Brahmaputra are essential in Assam, but they are facing new challenges as climate change leads […]
Education
A citizen science revolution?
FreshWater Watch At World Water Week, our lead research scientist Professor Steven Loiselle, spoke at numerous seminars to share the achievements of you, our […]
Sustainable Business
Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living
Susan Lee Masdar City was designed to be zero-carbon and zero-waste, home to a population of 40,000 people Ten years ago in the […]
Food
NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi
Contra Nocdendi International/NGO partner ASODECOM is a civil society organisation in Burundi that engages in human rights and development issues through programs, advice and advocacy. A significant […]
Disasters
Drought management: Successes in Solapur, India
Vijay Krishna The Solapur model under a Maharashtra government programme stands as a real example that could be successfully emulated On being urged to by […]
Soil
Reinstating the traditional rainwater harvesting systems in water deficient district of Alwar, India
Shachi Chaturvedi A 2016 interim report done by Sehgal Foundation on the project points out that water harvesting structures under Jaldhaara have conserved 714,431 […]
Sustainable Business
China’s ‘new Silk Road’ could expand Asia’s deserts
Liu Qin China’s massive Asian infrastructure network of proposed new roads and railways, new ports and airports, linking 65 countries to itself must grapple […]
Sustainable Business
Reversing The Tide: Spain Moves Into Water Remunicipalization
David Sánchez/Food and Water Europe Valladolid, a city of around 300,000 inhabitants took the first step to recover public control of water management Just one […]
Climate
Wedded to uncertainty: Stories of women married into families in the floodplains of Bihar, India
Amitangshu Acharya As Bihar is deluged again this year, with 89 lives lost so far, here are stories and images of survival, loss and […]
Biodiversity
What Africa’s drought responses teach us about climate change hotspots
Gina Ziervogel, Margaret Angula, Salma Hegga The world may still argue about whether or not climate change is for real. But in vast expanses of […]
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