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Achieving the SDGs requires public-private collaboration on water. Here’s why
Water is in crisis – as it is both a driver and victim of climate change. This year was supposed to be the year that

The Commission at UN 2023 Water Conference
“Ovid said that everything changes, nothing perishes,” said the UN President of the General Assembly Csaba Kőrösi, adding that “he could not have found better

The Guardian: First global water conference in 50 years yields hundreds of pledges, zero checks
The first global water conference in almost half a century has concluded with the creation of a new UN envoy for water and hundreds of

Reuters: UN warns ‘vampiric overconsumption’ is draining world’s water
The United Nations used its first conference on water security in almost half a century on Wednesday to exhort governments to better manage one of

Global Water Intelligence: The seven stars of the UN Water Conference
Here’s our take on this week’s winners.

Reuters: Explainer: The business of water: no one-size-fits-all approach
Puzzles remains over how best to count the financial, social and environmental costs and benefits of water, but many investors now state an aim to

Reuters: Water’s big moment risks getting lost in the weeds
It’s just typical. You wait almost five decades to make the case for urgent action and investment on the global stage in the world’s financial

Project Syndicate: Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis
The forced shutdown of nuclear reactors in France, the heavy snowfall that covered large swaths of North America in December, and the recent cholera outbreak

UN holds rare conference on global water crisis
With water scarce in some places, in excess elsewhere, polluted or otherwise problematic, the United Nations addresses this week a global crisis that has been

The New Indian Express: Water stress to hit India’s food production by 2050, says report by GCEW
The report says many Asian countries, including China and ASEAN members, who are currently net food exporters, would become net food importers by 2050.

The Times of India: If we fail on water, we fail on climate and development!
As we draw closer to the summer months, as always, water will slowly start emerging as a precious commodity, rivaling the value of gold. Well,

Project Syndicate: Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Water-related challenges – whether there is too much or too little, or whether it is dirty and unsafe – are already fueling chronic food and

World will fail on climate and development if it fails on water, says global group of experts
The unprecedented floods, droughts, and other extreme water events of the last year are not freak episodes but evidence of a systemic crisis that results

Die Zeit: Mariana Mazzucato zur Wasserkrise : “Keinen Tropfen mehr zu verschenken”
Die Welt hat ein extremes Wasserproblem, weiß Mariana Mazzucato, Autorin des ersten Weltwasserberichts. Wie verteilt man Trinkwasser noch gerecht, wenn es knapp wird?

Die Zeit: Globaler Wasserkreislauf gerät aus dem Gleichgewicht
Der Klimawandel und Missmanagement bedrohen die letzten Wasservorräte der Erde, warnen Fachleute im ersten Weltwasserbericht. Sieben Punkte sollen die Krise entschärfen.

Context: Water warning: Economic stability threatened by vanishing rainfall
A rethink of global water security is needed as knowledge grows about the role of nature and climate, analysts say
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The Guardian: Global fresh water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030, say experts
Landmark report urges overhaul of wasteful water practices around world on eve of crucial UN summit

Financing Water: beyond traditional economic thinking, it’s time for global action
Aude Farnault and Xavier Leflaive OECD Environment Directorate As leaders prepare to gather in New York later this month at the UN 2023 Water Conference[1],

Global Water Intelligence: Atmospheric rivers are the new new thing in water
The world of water through the eyes of GWI publisher Christopher Gasson.

Project Syndicate: For the Common Good
Tackling our biggest challenges and reversing the undue concentration of wealth and power will require a fundamental change in political economy. Currently, the principle of

Nature: The water crisis is worsening. Researchers must tackle it together
It’s unacceptable that millions living in poverty still lack access to safe water and basic sanitation. Nature Water will help researchers to find a way

The Bartlett: To stop water crises, the world must value water as a global common good
The current water crisis is damaging our environments and livelihoods. We urgently need to renew the way we value and manage water, collectively

Financial Times: Mariana Mazzucato: Unleash the state on the climate crisis
Time for states to take the lead on climate investment, says Mariana Mazzucato

financial Nigeria: Fixing the food trade
In addition to getting food from where it is abundant to where it is needed, trade supports jobs, livelihoods, and incomes. But too often, international

Stockholm International Water Institute: On the road to a water revolution
The climate meeting COP27 has already meant a step forward in the recognition of the role of water in climate action. But this is only

The Water Report: COP27 turns its attention to water
Today is Water Day at COP27. Collective water action is critical to achieving climate targets, delivering a nature positive world and embedding resilience globally.

Project Syndicate: The Entrepreneurial State Must Lead on Climate Change
As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proven unequal to the task of climate leadership. The global

Global Water Forum: Reimagining river futures by reshaping water infrastructure
Catastrophic floods and droughts are currently being experienced across the world. Paul Wyrwoll and Quentin Grafton argue that our existing approaches to managing water are

Project Syndicate: Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water
Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organization are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. The

Gulf Today: Save the irreplaceable drop
The work by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water is meant to offer advice on water management worldwide, as climate change and deforestation

Eco-Business: New global commission to redefine water governance unveiled at Davos
Climate change and deforestation are taking an increasing toll on water supplies and impacting global hydrological cycles. Existing policies for water governance are obsolete, said

Reuters: New group to tackle water security unveiled at Davos
To contend with worsening water woes, experts on Wednesday launched a new global commission to study the value of the world’s water, and work out

The Strait Times: Tharman appointed co-chair of global project to transform water governance
Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam was on Wednesday (May 25) announced as one of four co-chairs of a major global

News Ghana: World Leaders to Fight for Freedom, Values with History at a Turning Point
World leaders came together at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 against a backdrop of deepening global frictions and fractures and a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Climate Control: World Leaders focus on climate change at Davos
World leaders came together at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 against a backdrop of deepening global frictions and fractures and a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Future of humankind needs bold economic thinking and new governance on water
Chaired by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Johan Rockström and Singapore Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, a newly launched Global Commission on the

CNA: Tharman to co-chair new global group on governing the use of water
SINGAPORE: Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam will co-chair a global commission aimed at redefining the way water is valued and

Head Topics UK: Tharman to co-chair new global group on governing the use of water
Tharman to co-chair new global group on governing the use of water

Head Topics UK: Davos day 3: Geopolitical and recession worries dominate WEF – live updates
Rolling coverage of the day 3 of the World Economic Forum