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Water flows through the news every day. Many stories about climate change, economics, politics, culture and leisure have a water-related dimension. Explore what UN-Water’s Members and Partners are doing around the world on water.

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05 December 2023

Water and Climate Leaders call to action on water, energy, and climate at COP28

In an event organized by the COP 28 Presidency together with champion country partners and international organizations, the leaders...

30 November 2023

COP28: Water is critical to climate change mitigation

The research, being carried out in collaboration with the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA), sets out to identify what...

Girl next to a water point, in flooded area.

30 November 2023

2023 UN Climate Change Conference, COP28 opens today

UN climate conferences are government-level, large-scale annual gatherings focused on climate action. They are also referred to as ‘COP’...

27 November 2023

UNU Report: How Bitcoin Mining Impacts Climate, Water and Land

Bitcoin mining is the term given to the computational process carried out by networked computers to solve extremely complicated...

23 November 2023

Report: Interconnected Disaster Risks 2023

This year’s edition analyses six interconnected risk tipping points, representing immediate and increasing risks across the world. One of...

20 November 2023

GloWAL: A New Global Water Resources Initiative

A new global laboratory network is empowering countries around the world to generate the data needed to manage their...

Female farmer in a the field, Madagascar

16 November 2023

Evaluation of ILO’s work in the rural economy

Covering the period 2016-23, the evaluation focused on rural employment, using data gathered through a synthesis of 32 reports...

13 November 2023

Open WHO course on WASH and neglected tropical diseases

NTDs are a pressing global health concern, impacting over 1.6 billion people, predominantly within marginalized communities. The availability and...

Man on bike with belongings in flooded street

12 November 2023

Forthcoming water study on climate mitigation measures

The UN Water Expert Group on Water and Climate Change is undertaking a study on the water requirements of...

09 November 2023

UN-Water Webinars for Promoting Gender Contextualization of the SDG 6 Global Indicators

On the 14 and 16 November, the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for Sustainable Development Goal 6 (IMI-SDG6) held a...

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