Water

Water governance and water resource management strategies to mitigate the risk of floods and drought and improve water conservation and water quality.

Latest Water additions in the Knowledge Base

The first maps covering the whole of Switzerland and detailing areas at risk of flooding have just been released by the Federal Environment Office and reinsurance firm Swiss Re...
swissinfo.ch - International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
Berne - L'Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV) a établi les cartes nationales des zones inondables avec Swiss Re. Il existe ainsi une autre possibilité de détecter les zones menacées d'inondation...
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
The redesigned UN-Water website is hoped to contribute in a meaningful way to global efforts to reach the water and sanitation targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit on Sustainable Development...
UN-Water
Photo by Flikr user, Leo Reynolds, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
The Met Office, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is to play a key role in flood forecasting following the establishment of a Flood Forecasting Centre for England and Wales...
Met Office

All of society - the public and the private sector – ends up facing the consequences of disasters. It follows that all of society, the private sector included, has a role to play in reducing disaster risk. Natural hazards need not result automatically in

'They are unpredictable situations, but, as a responsible government, we have to draw up this sort of plan, so that the country is not taken completely by surprise' said Luis Covane, Deputy Education Minister...
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique
The United Nations has deployed a team of geologists to Honduras to help authorities in the Central American country identify risk zones for landslides and mudslides in the wake of Tropical Storm Paloma...
United Nations News Centre
Le Conseiller fédéral Moritz Leuenberger a rencontré le ministre chinois des eaux, Chen Lei. Les deux hommes sont convaincus que les deux pays peuvent tirer profit de leur coopération en matière de gestion des eaux et de prévention des dangers....
Switzerland - government

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