Drought and water scarcity
This publication shows how the three pillars of drought management: (1) monitoring; (2) vulnerability assessment; and (3) risk mitigation and response, help to integrate the management of the two phenomena.
Global Water Partnership
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Benefits of action and costs of inaction: drought mitigation and preparedness – a literature review
This review of available literature on the benefits of action and costs of inaction of drought mitigation and preparedness shows that significant progress has been made over the past decade in improving
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Linking ecosystem services and water security: SDGs offer a new opportunity for integration
This paper argues that the 2015 UN Development Agenda, which promotes integration among all water and water-using sectors, offers a timely opportunity to view, value, and manage aquatic ecosystems as an
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Beyond increasing block tariffs: Decoupling water charges from the provision of financial assistance to poor households
This paper raises important questions concerning access to piped water services, especially for the poor. As such, it could have ramifications for how communities and countries reach the water supply objectives
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Increasing water security: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
Water features in almost all the 17 Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) in the UN’s new development agenda up to 2030. Embedding water in this way demonstrates its central role in all aspects of development
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Forecasts of mortality and economic losses from poor water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper presents country-level estimates of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related mortality and economic losses associated with poor access to water and sanitation infrastructure in sub-Saharan
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Integrated water resources management in Eastern Africa: coping with ‘complex’ hydrology
Extreme and unpredictable rainfall patterns, intense floods, and droughts add significantly to the cost of controlling and managing water resources in Eastern Africa. This paper describes the approaches
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Integrated water resources management in Central and Eastern Europe: IWRM versus EU Water Framework Directive
The countries of Central and Eastern Europe faced the challenges of becoming EU Member States. In the water sector, the environment and water quality requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)
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China's water resources management challenge: the 'three red lines'
Throughout China’s history water has always been an essential part of political and economic life and important to the country’s prosperity and stability. Today, China is facing a great challenge as water
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Securing water, sustaining growth
Water insecurity costs the global economy some US$ 500 billion annually, according to Global Water Partnership (GWP). That figure does not take into account environmental impacts so the total drag on the
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Coordinating land and water governance: an essential part of achieving food security
Feeding the world’s growing population and finding the land and water to grow enough food continues to be a basic and sizeable challenge. It is an enormous task because the increase in food production