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8% GDP loss by 2050 foreseen due to water crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water
Posted on October 16, 2024 | No CommentsGlobal Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris An international group of leaders and experts warns that unless humanity acts with greater boldness and urgency, an increasingly out-of-balance water cycle […] -
UN: Bottled water masks world’s failure to supply safe water for all, can slow sustainable development
Posted on March 16, 2023 | No CommentsUNU-INWEH: UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health), Hamilton, Canada The rapidly-growing bottled water industry can undermine progress towards a key sustainable development goal: safe water for all, says […] -
Large dams’ capacity seen dropping 26% by 2050 due to sediment: UN
Posted on January 11, 2023 | No CommentsUNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Trapped sediment has robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an estimated 13% to 19% of their combined original storage capacity, […] -
The abundance of diverse “unconventional water sources”
Posted on May 30, 2022 | No CommentsUNU Institute for Water, Environment & Health, Hamilton, Canada Tapping a fraction can help meet fast-growing global freshwater needs UN and partner water experts say it is time to increase […] -
UN: 500 million live in 19 African nations deemed water insecure
Posted on March 21, 2022 | No CommentsUnited Nation University Institute for Water, Environment & Health 1st assessment of water security in Africa is based on 10 indicators Despite global Sustainable Development Goals and commitments made in […] -
A Clean Ocean by 2030: United Nations Panel of Experts Charts the Most Direct Course
Posted on November 17, 2021 | No CommentsClean Ocean Int’l Expert Group, New York Reducing marine debris by 50-90% and a globe circling, high-tech system of monitors are two essential aims among several championed today by nine […] -
New UN Mapping Tool Reveals Global Floods Since 1985 to Aid Disaster Planning
Posted on October 1, 2021 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada See also: “Popular Science Magazine: UN’s World Flood Mapping Tool is One of 2021’s 100 Greatest Innovations,” click here […] -
Ageing dams pose growing threat: UN
Posted on January 22, 2021 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Increasingly expensive to maintain, experts foresee a trend to decommissioning dams By 2050, most people on Earth will live […] -
Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams
Posted on February 3, 2020 | No CommentsUN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer […] -
UN University compares technologies that remove arsenic from groundwater
Posted on January 31, 2019 | No CommentsUN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada At least 140 million people in 50 countries have been drinking water containing arsenic at levels above the World […] -
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs
Posted on January 14, 2019 | No CommentsUNU-INWEH, Hamilton Canada World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50 percent more than previously estimated; Enough in a year to cover Florida under […] -
Canada in the global water world: A UN analysis of capabilities
Posted on November 23, 2018 | No CommentsUN University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Several avenues to elevate Canada’s role on the global water stage are recommended Hamilton, Canada – The United Nations […] -
Where the Water Is
Posted on May 17, 2018 | No CommentsUN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada (op-ed published by Project Syndicate) Sustainable Development Goal 6 calls for universal access to clean water and sanitation. But if governments […] -
Exploring vast ‘submerged America,’ marine scientists discover 500 bubbling methane vents
Posted on October 19, 2016 | No CommentsNat’l Ocean Exploration Forum – New York 19 Oct 2016 Portable observatories and new marine vehicles: The hinge of historic change in deep sea exploration Yet to be found worldwide: A […] -
Experts warn booming seaweed industry
Posted on September 2, 2016 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada Beyond sushi wrap: Expanding number of valuable uses drives astonishing growth of seaweed farming; Experts urge burgeoning industry […] -
Powerful new global arena needed to confront coming water challenges, elite UN board warns
Posted on November 18, 2015 | No CommentsUN S-G’s Advisory Board, Water & Sanitation 18 Nov 2015 Blunt valedictory report from Secretary-General’s water and sanitation advisory board suggests routes to next generation world water goals; calls for major institutional […] -
Vast energy value in human waste
Posted on November 3, 2015 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health — Hamilton, Canada 3 Nov 2015 Safe, systematic collection of human waste in low-resource countries could yield valuable fuels, invaluable […] -
Water problem hotspots demand effective new approaches to international cooperation
Posted on October 1, 2015 | No CommentsUN University – INWEH, Hamilton 1 Oct 2015 Importance of water cooperation grows as climate changes advance; Tajikistan Foreign Minister honored for water-related leadership in Central Asia; Sirodjidin Aslov […] -
World loses trillions of dollars worth of nature’s benefits each year due to land degradation
Posted on September 15, 2015 | No CommentsUN 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 of ecosystem services provided by […] -
Achieve international water goals to preempt looming conflicts born of desperation: UN
Posted on February 22, 2015 | No CommentsUnited 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 and security A new UN […] -
Vulnerability to dengue virus: UN University publishes 1st global maps
Posted on December 23, 2014 | No CommentsUN 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 global vulnerability to dengue, a […] -
Beyond infrastructure – New attitudes also needed to end open defecation: UN (World Toilet Day)
Posted on November 19, 2014 | No CommentsUN 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 monitoring, particularly for sanitation in […] -
World losing 2,000 hectares of farm soil daily to salt damage
Posted on October 28, 2014 | No CommentsUnited 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 France; Extensive costs include $27 […] -
Pipeline to replenish vanishing Dead Sea a bridge to Mid-East security, peace
Posted on October 9, 2014 | No CommentsUnited 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 of Korea A massive 180 […] -
Zone tropical coastal oceans; manage them more like land resources: Scientists
Posted on July 2, 2014 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health 2-Jul-2014 Business-as-usual management policies risks well-being of 2 billion+ people Leading international environmental and marine scientists today published a joint […] -
Economic rewards of better land management: Estimated 2.3 billion tons of crops worth $1.4 trillion
Posted on September 24, 2013 | No CommentsUnited 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 proven sustainable land management practices […] -
Rising use of wastewater in forecast but world lacks data on ‘massive potential resource’
Posted on September 5, 2013 | No CommentsUnited 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 volume of Niagara Falls; less […] -
Managing shared waters: Treasury of papers helps capture 20 years of lessons
Posted on July 25, 2013 | No CommentsUnited 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 in Arab region, spread of […] -
Potentially ‘catastrophic’ changes underway in Canada’s northern Mackenzie River Basin
Posted on June 10, 2013 | No CommentsRosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California Berkeley 10-Jun-2013 Biodiversity in watershed covering roughly 20% of Canada compared to Africa’s Serengeti; Alarm raised at melting of permafrost, ice […] -
Shifting global water systems: markers of a new geological epoch, “The Anthropocene”
Posted on May 24, 2013 | No CommentsGlobal Water System Project, Bonn 19-May-2013 Bonn Declaration issued by ‘Water in the Anthropocene’ science conference: A majority on Earth face severe self-inflicted water handicap within two generations A conference […] -
‘Water Security’: Experts propose a UN definition on which much depends
Posted on March 22, 2013 | No CommentsUnited 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 changing weather and water patterns […] -
Preserve the services of mangroves — Earth’s invaluable coastal forests, experts urge
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No CommentsUnited 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 risking human and environmental well-being […] -
UN experts warn of ‘water bankruptcy’ for many regions after reviewing 200 major global projects
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsUnited 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 of almost 200 major international […] -
Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsUnited 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, former heads of government and […] -
‘Amazon of the North’: Major world interests at stake in Canada’s vast Mackenzie River Basin
Posted on September 3, 2012 | No CommentsWalter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Toronto 3 September, 2012 Watershed covers roughly 20 percent of Canada, including oil sands; The Mackenzie may discharge more water into the Arctic than the […] -
State of the Planet: Scientists describe humanity’s global impact as ‘The Great Acceleration’ and offer ominous outlook: An uncertain future on a much hotter world
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsEarth System Science Partnership, Paris 26-Mar-2012 Time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and long-term climate change and other dramatic changes to Earth’s life […] -
Study quantifies impact of unsafe water and poor sanitation on child and maternal mortality
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsUnited 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 under five and mothers in […] -
Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development
Posted on November 16, 2011 | No CommentsUnited 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 ecosystems The rapid, large scale […] -
Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone: Study
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 28 Jul 11 Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as “protected areas” […] -
Data revealing migrations of larval reef fish vital for designing networks of marine protected areas
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 11 Jul 2011 Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully planned, taking into account the […] -
Void in leadership on world water crisis cited by 20 former heads of government
Posted on May 31, 2011 | No CommentsInterAction Council, Tokyo 31 May 2001 Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland among 20 former leaders urging greater effort to avert looming water crisis Former heads of government from around the […] -
Former national leaders: Water a global security issue
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsInterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this year for a council of […] -
Canada’s role grows amid looming world water shortages in some places, more flooding in others
Posted on March 3, 2011 | No CommentsCanadian Water NetworkWaterloo, Ontario27-Feb-2011 $1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; Global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed especially for the excellence of […] -
Pollutants in aquifers may threaten future of Mexico’s fast-growing ‘Riviera Maya’
Posted on February 6, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 6 Feb 2011 Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant […] -
Report casts world’s rivers in ‘crisis state’
Posted on September 29, 2010 | No CommentsDIVERSITAS, Paris 29 Sep 2009 The world’s rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis to be published Sept. 30 in the journal Nature. The […] -
Greater access to cell phones than toilets in India: UN
Posted on April 14, 2010 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 14-Apr-2010 UNU-INWEH report offers 9-point prescription for achieving Millennium Development Goal for sanitation Far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to […] -
Water experts of 26 UN agencies meet in Canada, plan coordinated response to looming crisis
Posted on February 6, 2010 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 1-Feb-2010More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Canada Feb. 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach to the global […] -
‘Arid aquaculture’ among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world’s drylands
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 11-Nov-2008 “Arid aquaculture” using ponds filled with salty, undrinkable water for fish production is one of several options experts have proven to be an effective potential alternative […] -
Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University
Posted on October 20, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Tokyo Japan / Hamilton, Canada 19-Oct-2008 Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty […] -
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Posted on August 7, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 25-Jul-2008Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of precious […] -
Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN
Posted on July 20, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 20-Jul-2008 700 leading experts convene at edge of Brazil’s vast Pantanal to take stock, offer policy prescription to remedy wetlands crisis Leading world scientists convene in Brazil […] -
Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: UN experts
Posted on June 4, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton Canada June 4, 2008 Current coastal management practices are ineffective and their continuation endangers ecosystems that support the economies on […] -
Sanitation investment in poor countries would yield $9-to-1 benefits in productivity, health: UN
Posted on May 17, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University / International Year of Sanitation 20-Mar-2008 Experts estimate that $9 in productivity, health and other benefits are returned for every dollar invested installing toilets for people in […] -
Restoring soils vital to feed world, forestall climate change: experts
Posted on August 30, 2007 | No CommentsSoil Conservation Service of Iceland, Reykjavik, and United Nations University 30 Aug 07 Protecting soils claimed as an immediate fix to counter climate change; 150 world experts meet in Iceland […] -
Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
Posted on June 27, 2007 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face […] -
Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
Posted on December 14, 2006 | No Comments14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts in world policies needed to […] -
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Posted on June 16, 2005 | No Comments16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of […] -
South America’s vast Pantanal wetland may become next Everglades, UNU experts warn
Posted on March 21, 2005 | No Comments21 Mar 05 United Nations University South America’s giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world’s most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development […] -
Two billion vulnerable to floods by 2050; number expected to double or more in two generations
Posted on June 13, 2004 | No Comments13 Jun 04 United Nations University The number of people worldwide vulnerable to a devastating flood is expected to mushroom to 2 billion by 2050 due to climate change, deforestation, […] -
First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
Posted on November 30, 2003 | No Comments30 Nov 03 United Nations University In an effort to help raise the quality of water management expertise worldwide, the United Nations University has authorized for the first time in […] -
Ottawa Commits $3M to Ongoing Efforts from Hamilton to Relieve Water Problems in Developing Countries
Posted on June 27, 2003 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health New Assistant Director Brings Extensive Experience in Move to UNU-INWEH Headquarters; Will organize UN Global Conference on Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water […] -
Political Inertia Exacerbates Water Crisis, Says World Water Development Report
Posted on March 5, 2003 | No CommentsUnited Nations University / UNESCO 5 March, 2003 First UN system-wide evaluation of global water resources Faced with “inertia at the leadership level”, the global water crisis will reach unprecedented […] -
War, exploitation and pollution threaten mountain ecosystems, says UNU expert
Posted on January 27, 2002 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 27 January, 2002 The degradation of mountain ecosystems — home to 600 million people and the source of water for more than half the world’s population — […] -
Mountain Ecosystems Endangered: War, exploitation and pollution threaten freshwater source for half of world’s population
Posted on January 27, 2002 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Tokyo The degradation of mountain ecosystems – home to 600 million people and the source of water for more than half the world’s population – threatens to […] -
Great Lakes “starting to exhale,” cleansing themselves of accumulated chemicals
Posted on September 28, 2001 | No CommentsEnvironment Canada, Toronto 28 September, 2001 With lower pollution levels in the air, Lakes start to “out-gas” PCBs, pesticides Significant quantities of chemicals, including PCBs and pesticides, are being released […] -
Lessons From the 1997-98 El Nino: Once Burned, Twice Shy?
Posted on October 27, 2000 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 27 Oct 2000 Thousands of human casualties and tens of billions of dollars in economic damage will continue to befall the world’s developing countries every two to […] -
Africa may be able to feed just 40% of its population in 2025
Posted on October 16, 1999 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Natural Resources in Africa Soil Infertility, Malnutrition at Root of Half of African Child Deaths Today; Needed to Bring Land Toward Full Food Potential: $100 […] -
Unsafe Water: 3.3 Billion Illnesses and 5.3 Million Deaths Yearly Price Tab for Safe Water $50 to $105 Per Person
Posted on March 18, 1999 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Tokyo 18 March 1999 Clean, safe water can be brought to the 1.4 billion people around the world without it for as little as $50 per person, which […] -
Canadian-based U.N. Water/Environment Program Reports Year 2 Progress to International Advisors Meeting at McMaster
Posted on October 21, 1998 | No CommentsUNU-INWEH, Hamilton, Canada First UNU-INWEH news release, 1998, click here “I am pleased to learn of the progress made to date by UNU/INWEH and proud that this new organization has […]