Water

In a significant move, Bangladesh has announced its decision to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) of 1992. This decision was made during a...

Oxfam, an aid organization, warned Sunday of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the beleaguered Palestinian territory, stating that only 12 trucks have delivered food and water in northern Gaza in the previous two and a half...

In regards to water, climate change, and cryosphere preservation, Environment, Forests, and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury has emphasized the urgent need to move from empty words and promises to concrete steps and delivery. “We...

Finance ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean convened today in Washington, D.C., to discuss mobilizing US$372 billion over the next five years to combat the region’s water and sanitation crisis. The meeting, which gathered...

On Wednesday, Icelandic authorities announced that if a volcanic explosion threatened the evacuated town of Grindavik, they were thinking of spraying water over any lava that erupted. On the southern Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland, there is...

Geraldo Alckmin, the vice president of Brazil, announced on Wednesday that extra assistance would be given to an Amazonian state whose rivers are drying up due to a severe drought, which is leading to widespread fish...

Japan will start releasing wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, a move that has drawn a strong reaction from China despite Japan’s assurances that it is safe. Twelve years after one of the...

The European Commission on Wednesday urged EU member states to re-use treated urban wastewater as irrigation on the continent’s parched farms. Much of Europe has been hit by a lengthy dry spell this year, and the...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope has discovered water on an alien planet for the first time. This water has been found on a planet called WSP-96b, more than 1,000 light years away. News of the Independent. The...

On 2nd December, over 15 finance and sector ministers’ from Asia and the Pacific will come together to develop and strengthen partnerships for smart investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene. These partnerships are critical given the...