Water

Water is a critical resource that underpins various sectors of the society. Climate change is already causing significant impacts on water resources, such as increased temperatures, more intense droughts, and extreme flooding events.

As water scarcity threatens their livelihoods, indigenous women in Mexico are relearning how to grow their ancestral foods.

An international team of researchers developed a novel modeling approach to identify cost-effective combinations of water management, promising a substantial reduction in future water scarcity.

This report focuses on understanding community impacts and needs after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. A rapid survey-based field investigation was conducted two weeks after the incident.

The desert is encroaching across Sicily, the largest and most populous island in the Mediterranean, where a European temperature high of 48.8C was recorded in 2021. Rainfall is down by more than 40% since 2003.

UNESCO's CARE4WATER initiative aims to boost climate resilience and secure water resources in East Africa by integrating science, socio-economic insights, and community empowerment.

Using survey data collected from approximately half a million individuals across Sub-Saharan Africa over from 2005 to 2018, this paper examines the causal relationship between water availability and labor market outcomes.

This study evaluates the impact of sand dams on resilience to climate variability and changes through a participatory case study approach in the Shashe catchment, a semi-arid catchment shared by Botswana and Zimbabwe.