26 May 2026 - Water is life - and yet billions of people still lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation. As climate change intensifies droughts and floods, and demand grows alongside ...

PARIS, France, March 22, 2024 (ENS) – Tensions over access to clean water are aggravating conflicts worldwide, finds the United Nations World Water Development Report 2024, just published by UNESCO on ...

Forty-six years. That’s how long it took the United Nations to organize a high-level conference on water. The 3-day event, held last week in New York, was brief compared with its 12-day predecessor, ...

On Wednesday morning in Manhattan, the United Nations Water Conference began in dramatic fashion when Mina Guli, a 52-year-old Australian foundation CEO and water activist, broke a blue ribbon ...

24 March 2023 - The UN 2023 Water Conference in New York culminated today with a breakthrough response to the global water crisis, with governments, businesses and civil society committing billions of ...

Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that there would be some landmark breakthroughs to ensure that everyone had access to ...

Facing projections of dire freshwater shortages around the globe, the United Nations has wrapped up its first conference on the issue in nearly eight decades. A central theme emerged amid the ...

For decades, we have heard many warnings about a global water crisis. However, a new UN-supported report states that these previous warnings do not capture the extent of the problem. Instead, the ...

For three days last week, the United Nations took a needed look at that most fundamental of resources: water. The 2023 U.N Water Conference, held March 22–24, brought together governments, states, ...

By Mohamed Obaid Alqataam Alzaabi Located in one of the world’s most water-scarce regions, the United Arab Emirates has spent ...