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‘Water Security’: Experts propose a UN definition on which much depends
Posted on March 22, 2013 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH, Hamilton, Canada) / UN-Water 22-Mar-2013, World Water Day / International Year of Water Cooperation Amid changing weather and water patterns... -
Preserve the services of mangroves — Earth’s invaluable coastal forests, experts urge
Posted on November 14, 2012 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada 14 Nov 2012 Loss of mangroves to fish farms, other development, a poor economic trade-off risking human and environmental well-being... -
UN, other experts warn of ‘water bankruptcy’ for many regions after reviewing 200 major global projects
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada 23 Sep 2012 Study highlights horizon issues for world’s freshwater and marine systems A study of almost 200 major international... -
Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsUnited Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada InterAction Council, Tokyo Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Canada 10-Sep-2012 World confronts serious water crisis, former heads of government and... -
State of the Planet: Scientists describe humanity’s global impact as ‘The Great Acceleration’ and offer ominous outlook: An uncertain future on a much hotter world
Posted on March 26, 2012 | No CommentsEarth System Science Partnership, Paris 26-Mar-2012 Time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and long-term climate change and other dramatic changes to Earth’s life... -
Study quantifies impact of unsafe water and poor sanitation on child and maternal mortality
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 14-Feb-2012 The impact of unsafe water and sanitation on the death rates of children under five and mothers in... -
Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development
Posted on November 16, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 16-Nov-2011 Sustainable coastal management, regional coordination and long-term, holistic viewpoint needed to protect fragile ecosystems The rapid, large scale... -
Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone: Study
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 28 Jul 11 Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as “protected areas”... -
Data revealing migrations of larval reef fish vital for designing networks of marine protected areas
Posted on July 11, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 11 Jul 2011 Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully planned, taking into account the... -
Void in leadership on world water crisis cited by 20 former heads of government
Posted on May 31, 2011 | No CommentsInterAction Council, Tokyo 31 May 2001 Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland among 20 former leaders urging greater effort to avert looming water crisis Former heads of government from around the... -
Former national leaders: Water a global security issue
Posted on May 22, 2011 | No CommentsInterAction Council / United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health 20 March 2011 Water as an “urgent security issue” tops the agenda this year for a council of... -
Canada’s role grows amid looming world water shortages in some places, more flooding in others
Posted on March 3, 2011 | No CommentsCanadian Water Network Waterloo, Ontario 27-Feb-2011 $1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; Global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed especially for the... -
Pollutants in aquifers may threaten future of Mexico’s fast-growing ‘Riviera Maya’
Posted on February 7, 2011 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health Hamilton, Canada Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under... -
Report casts world’s rivers in ‘crisis state’
Posted on September 29, 2010 | No CommentsDIVERSITAS, Paris 29 Sep 2009 The world’s rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis to be published Sept. 30 in the journal Nature. The... -
Water experts of 26 UN agencies meet in Canada, plan coordinated response to looming crisis
Posted on February 6, 2010 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 1-Feb-2010 More than two dozen leading United Nations water experts will convene in Hamilton, Canada Feb. 2-4 to plan fresh strategy for a coordinated approach to the... -
‘Arid aquaculture’ among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world’s drylands
Posted on November 11, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 11-Nov-2008 “Arid aquaculture” using ponds filled with salty, undrinkable water for fish production is one of several options experts have proven to be an effective potential alternative... -
Providing toilets, safe water is top route to reducing world poverty: UN University
Posted on October 20, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University Tokyo Japan / Hamilton, Canada 19-Oct-2008 Simply installing toilets where needed throughout the world and ensuring safe water supplies would do more to end crippling poverty... -
Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
Posted on August 7, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 25-Jul-2008 Critical food shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank among the greatest threats today to the preservation of... -
Massive greenhouse gases may be released as destruction, drying of world wetlands worsens: UN
Posted on August 7, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 20-Jul-2008 700 leading experts convene at edge of Brazil’s vast Pantanal to take stock, offer policy prescription to remedy wetlands crisis Leading world scientists convene in Brazil... -
Sanitation investment in poor countries would yield $9-to-1 benefits in productivity, health: UN
Posted on May 17, 2008 | No CommentsUnited Nations University / International Year of Sanitation 20-Mar-2008 Experts estimate that $9 in productivity, health and other benefits are returned for every dollar invested installing toilets for people in... -
Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
Posted on July 4, 2007 | No CommentsUnited Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face... -
Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
Posted on December 14, 2006 | No Comments14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts in world policies needed to... -
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
Posted on June 16, 2005 | No Comments16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. And a rising number of... -
South America’s vast Pantanal wetland may become next Everglades, UNU experts warn
Posted on March 21, 2005 | No Comments21 Mar 05 United Nations University South America’s giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world’s most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development... -
Two billion vulnerable to floods by 2050; number expected to double or more in two generations
Posted on June 13, 2004 | No Comments13 Jun 04 United Nations University The number of people worldwide vulnerable to a devastating flood is expected to mushroom to 2 billion by 2050 due to climate change, deforestation,... -
First-ever UN University diploma offered to grads of online water-management course
Posted on November 30, 2003 | No Comments30 Nov 03 United Nations University In an effort to help raise the quality of water management expertise worldwide, the United Nations University has authorized for the first time in...