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06/10/2021
Climate Change, Population Increase Fuel Looming Water Crisis – World Meteorological Organization
29/07/2021
Water Scarcity: Coming Soon
Human Wrongs Watch
– In 1995, a highly-respected water expert in South Africa, Bill Pitman, in very concise terms illustrated that the country, already battling a growing lack of water then, would likely run out in 25 years if it did not increase its supply.
Credit: UNICEF
Twenty-five years have now passed and the country is thirstier than ever.
The recent water crisis in Cape Town is just one manifestation of the nation’s chronic water scarcity. And there is likely more water trouble ahead.
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24/07/2021
Lebanon: Water Supply Systems on the Verge of Collapse – Over 71% of People at Immediate Risk Losing Access to Water
Human Wrongs Watch
BEIRUT, 23 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – More than four million people, including one million refugees, are at immediate risk of losing access to safe water in Lebanon.
UNICEF/UN0482539/Mother Kanouz holding her one-year old daughter Fatima to wash her hands at Mhamara informal settlement, 5 July 2021
23/07/2021
Water-Related Hazards Dominate List of 10 Most Destructive Disasters – World Meteorological Organization
Human Wrongs Watch
Geneva, 23 July 2021 (WMO)* – Water-related hazards dominate the list of disasters in terms of both the human and economic toll over the past 50 years, according to a comprehensive analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
09/07/2021
South Sudan 10 Year Anniversary: ‘Violence Destroyed My Hometown, My Shop… and Now There Is No Water’
Human Wrongs Watch
By Marwa Awad*
Picking up the pieces is sadly routine for people such as Roda whose teashop was destroyed by fighting — the World Food Programme is at hand but requires urgent funds to assist
With her bare hands, Roda clears debris and forages scraps from her wrecked teashop after attackers scorched Gumuruk, a town in the Greater Jonglei region where conflict frequently disrupts daily life and stifles progress.
The 36-year-old mother of six is just one of countless South Sudanese stuck in a tiring cycle of destruction and rebuilding.
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02/07/2021
‘Billions of People Will Lack Access to Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in 2030 Unless Progress Quadruples’
Latest estimates reveal that 3 in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNICEF/UN0388486/Panjwani
GENEVA/NEW YORK, 1 July 2021 (UNICEF)* – Billions of people around the world will be unable to access safely managed household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services in 2030 unless the rate of progress quadruples, according to a new report from WHO and UNICEF.
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26/06/2021
‘The Global Climate Crisis Is Exacerbating and Intensifying Water-Related Disasters, Jeopardizing Lives and Livelihoods’
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — The global climate crisis is “exacerbating and intensifying” water-related disasters, jeopardizing lives and livelihoods, the UN chief on 25 June 2021 said at a major sustainable development symposium.
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27/05/2021
World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next Five Years
Geneva, 27 May 2021 (WMO) – There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre industrial levels in at least one of the next five years – and these odds are increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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25/05/2021
Lack of Clean Water ‘Far Deadlier’ than Violence in War-Torn Countries – UNICEF
Human Wrongs Watch
(UN News)* — Attacks on water and sanitation facilities in conflict zones around the world are putting the lives of millions of children around the world in danger, and are a much greater threat than violence itself, warns the UN Children’s agency, UNICEF, in a report released on 25 May 2021.
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Water Under Fire Volume 3, highlights that children’s access to water has been threatened in nearly every conflict-related emergency where UNICEF is responding.
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27/04/2021
Water and Life
The Colorado River is reduced to a trickle when it reaches the Pacific | Image from Wall Street International.
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- today, 1 in 3 people live without safe drinking water;
- by 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at least one month a year;
- climate-resilient water supply and sanitation could save the lives of more than 360,000 infants every year;
- if we limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, we could cut climate-induced water stress by up to 50%;
- extreme weather has caused more than 90% of major disasters over the last decade;
- by 2040, global energy demand is projected to increase by over 25% and water demand is expected to increase by more than 50%.
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