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UNU-INWEH news making highlights, 1996-2021

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Media worldwide have often helped communicate UNU-INWEH’s scientific and policy-relevant discoveries and insights to

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Vast energy value in human waste

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of human waste in low-resource countries

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Water problem hotspots demand effective new approaches to international cooperation

UN University – INWEH, Hamilton 1 Oct 2015   Importance of water cooperation grows as climate changes advance; Tajikistan Foreign Minister honored for water-related leadership

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World loses trillions of dollars worth of nature’s benefits each year due to land degradation

UN University – INWEH, Hamilton, Canada 15-SEP-2015 To better inform the tradeoffs involved in land use choices around the world, experts have assessed the value

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Achieve international water goals to preempt looming conflicts born of desperation: UN

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton CANADA 22-FEB-2015 Corruption, siphoning 30 percent of water sector funding, must end for world development

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Vulnerability to dengue virus: UN University publishes 1st global maps

UN University INWEH (Institute for Water, Environment & Health ), Hamilton CANADA 23-DEC-2014 Large Parts Of Europe, South America Face Rising Vulnerability The first-ever maps of

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Beyond infrastructure – New attitudes also needed to end open defecation: UN (World Toilet Day)

UN Water (Geneva / New York) One billion people don’t use toilets: 1 in 6 people in developing regions; New UN-Water GLAAS findings underscore critical gaps in

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World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton CANADA 28-Oct-2014 Salt-spoiled soils worldwide: 20 percent of all irrigated lands — an area equal to

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Pipeline to replenish vanishing Dead Sea a bridge to Mid-East security, peace

United Nations University, Hamilton Canada, and InterAction Council, Toronto 9-Oct-2014 Experts’ address universal concerns identified by former world leaders: World water crisis, sectarianism, energy, denuclearization

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Zone tropical coastal oceans; manage them more like land resources: Scientists

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health 2-Jul-2014 Business-as-usual management policies risks well-being of 2 billion+ people Satellite Images Depict the Growth

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Economic rewards of better land management: Estimated 2.3 billion tons of crops worth $1.4 trillion

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 24-Sep-2013 UN-backed report, ‘Economics of Land Degradation,’ debuts at world desertification conference, Namibia Adopting

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Rising use of wastewater in forecast but world lacks data on ‘massive potential resource’

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 5 Sept. 2013 UN-backed study says annual treated wastewater in North America roughly equals

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Managing shared waters: Treasury of papers helps capture 20 years of lessons

United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health, Canada Global Environmental Facility IW:LEARN, Slovakia 25 July 2013 Sharing Nile’s vital flow through 11 nations, water

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‘Water Security’: Experts propose a UN definition on which much depends

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH, Hamilton, Canada) / UN-Water 22-Mar-2013, World Water Day / International Year of Water Cooperation Amid

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Preserve the services of mangroves — Earth’s invaluable coastal forests, experts urge

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada 14 Nov 2012 Loss of mangroves to fish farms, other development, a poor economic trade-off

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UN experts warn of ‘water bankruptcy’ for many regions after reviewing 200 major global projects

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada 23 Sep 2012 Study highlights horizon issues for world’s freshwater and marine systems A study

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Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada InterAction Council, Tokyo Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Canada 10-Sep-2012 World confronts serious water crisis,

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Study quantifies impact of unsafe water and poor sanitation on child and maternal mortality

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 14-Feb-2012 The impact of unsafe water and sanitation on the death rates of children

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Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development

United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health,  Hamilton, Canada 16-Nov-2011 Sustainable coastal management, regional coordination and long-term, holistic viewpoint needed to protect fragile

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Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone: Study

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 28 Jul 11 Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and

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Data revealing migrations of larval reef fish vital for designing networks of marine protected areas

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 11 Jul 2011 Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully

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Former national leaders: Water a global security issue

InterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this

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